So glad to see your review of Reeves/Mieville. I love some Mieville and can't with others, but I was really hoping this would be fun. Alas, after half an hour and realizing it was comic book adjacent, I stopped, and reading your review it looks like I won't pick it back up.
Same with the Newman. Like you, I really love her SF and never tried anything else, but now I clearly won't :)
Craig Schaefer is one of those urban fantasy dude bros I don't usually admit to enjoying :) I did like the Daniel Faust series better than the Harmony Black spinoff, but if you aren't desperate for that kind of thing, I definitely wouldn't rec it. (Others in that would love to be Dresden category that I enjoyed recently has been Chris Tullbane's Murder of Crows series, which is a shade more post-apocalyptic and YA but his DNA is definitely make urban fantasy).
I'm looking fwd to the Ashby and Corey and am glad you liked them both.
Things I've come across recently that I'm not sure I've seen you talk about but might be up your alley: Virginia Black's No Shelter But the Stars, Megan O'Keefe's Bound World trilogy, David Ignatius's Phantom Orbit, and Elaine Cho's Ocean's Godori. (OK, I'm still listening to all of those but they are good enough that I haven't deleted them yet, so...)
As always, thank you so much for your reviews! I tend to take a lot of them as recommendations (or permissions to DNF :)
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Date: 2024-09-27 12:24 am (UTC)Same with the Newman. Like you, I really love her SF and never tried anything else, but now I clearly won't :)
Craig Schaefer is one of those urban fantasy dude bros I don't usually admit to enjoying :) I did like the Daniel Faust series better than the Harmony Black spinoff, but if you aren't desperate for that kind of thing, I definitely wouldn't rec it. (Others in that would love to be Dresden category that I enjoyed recently has been Chris Tullbane's Murder of Crows series, which is a shade more post-apocalyptic and YA but his DNA is definitely make urban fantasy).
I'm looking fwd to the Ashby and Corey and am glad you liked them both.
Things I've come across recently that I'm not sure I've seen you talk about but might be up your alley: Virginia Black's No Shelter But the Stars, Megan O'Keefe's Bound World trilogy, David Ignatius's Phantom Orbit, and Elaine Cho's Ocean's Godori. (OK, I'm still listening to all of those but they are good enough that I haven't deleted them yet, so...)
As always, thank you so much for your reviews! I tend to take a lot of them as recommendations (or permissions to DNF :)