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Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant: I returned to this because I liked Exordia so much, but still found this story of a woman trying to bring down an empire from within to be too convoluted and hard to follow.
Katherine Addison, The Tomb of Dragons: Thara Celehar continues to navigate his duties as a priest, even without his abilities to speak to the dead lost at the end of the previous book. He deals with a variety of problems, sometimes dropping one to continue his efforts with another, which gives the book its cozy/real-life feel. But there are a bunch of murdered dragons who constitute one of his problems, so it’s still fantasy, along with the existence of an Emperor who is more concerned with propriety and justice than any real-world ruler of whom I am aware.
Katherine Addison, The Orb of Cairado: Novella set in the Goblin Emperor world, in which a disgraced scholar’s life changes when his best friend dies in the airship explosion. Turns out his friend was concealing vital information about the theft that led the scholar to be falsely accused, and he tries to use it to restore his position. It has the exact tone of the rest of the series, so if you want more, here it is.
Erik J. Brown, All That's Left in the World: Post-superflu-apocalypse YA in which two boys find each other and fall in love as they go through what’s left of the world. Fairly standard beats.
Lavie Tidhar, Central Station: Series of interconnected vignettes about life around Central Station, a spaceport in Israel/Palestine, where the people of Earth continue to struggle in various ways, including by experimenting with new types of humanity/evolving intelligence. I didn’t connect with any of the characters.
Matt Dinniman, The Gate of the Feral Gods: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 4: Look, I find it soothing to read about Carl powering up and fighting back against the whole structure of the dungeon, even though he’s not actually escaping and may be contributing to the bread & circuses setup of the world.
Matt Dinniman, The Butcher's Masquerade: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 5: Carl’s mid-trauma PTSD is starting to kick in for real now, but he doesn’t yet recognize it as they navigate a level of mythic quests.
Matt Dinniman, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 6: Carl and his crew endure more; he’s wonderfully open about his need and respect for Donut. His sincere desires to (a) keep a lot of humans alive and (b) kill as many of those responsible for this deliberately designed trolley problem as possible gives the narrative energy even as the politics become more convoluted. Also, he inserts himself into the head of a sex doll.
Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 7: I’m now caught up, and the crawlers are now part of Faction Wars, as the chaos expands through the solar system and the larger universe. I cannot actually follow the politics in any real way, but I’m still here for Carl and Donut trying to save as many people as they can. Humans as space orcs is really working for me (even if they are transformed into various mostly humanoid forms).
Katherine Addison, The Tomb of Dragons: Thara Celehar continues to navigate his duties as a priest, even without his abilities to speak to the dead lost at the end of the previous book. He deals with a variety of problems, sometimes dropping one to continue his efforts with another, which gives the book its cozy/real-life feel. But there are a bunch of murdered dragons who constitute one of his problems, so it’s still fantasy, along with the existence of an Emperor who is more concerned with propriety and justice than any real-world ruler of whom I am aware.
Katherine Addison, The Orb of Cairado: Novella set in the Goblin Emperor world, in which a disgraced scholar’s life changes when his best friend dies in the airship explosion. Turns out his friend was concealing vital information about the theft that led the scholar to be falsely accused, and he tries to use it to restore his position. It has the exact tone of the rest of the series, so if you want more, here it is.
Erik J. Brown, All That's Left in the World: Post-superflu-apocalypse YA in which two boys find each other and fall in love as they go through what’s left of the world. Fairly standard beats.
Lavie Tidhar, Central Station: Series of interconnected vignettes about life around Central Station, a spaceport in Israel/Palestine, where the people of Earth continue to struggle in various ways, including by experimenting with new types of humanity/evolving intelligence. I didn’t connect with any of the characters.
Matt Dinniman, The Gate of the Feral Gods: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 4: Look, I find it soothing to read about Carl powering up and fighting back against the whole structure of the dungeon, even though he’s not actually escaping and may be contributing to the bread & circuses setup of the world.
Matt Dinniman, The Butcher's Masquerade: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 5: Carl’s mid-trauma PTSD is starting to kick in for real now, but he doesn’t yet recognize it as they navigate a level of mythic quests.
Matt Dinniman, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 6: Carl and his crew endure more; he’s wonderfully open about his need and respect for Donut. His sincere desires to (a) keep a lot of humans alive and (b) kill as many of those responsible for this deliberately designed trolley problem as possible gives the narrative energy even as the politics become more convoluted. Also, he inserts himself into the head of a sex doll.
Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 7: I’m now caught up, and the crawlers are now part of Faction Wars, as the chaos expands through the solar system and the larger universe. I cannot actually follow the politics in any real way, but I’m still here for Carl and Donut trying to save as many people as they can. Humans as space orcs is really working for me (even if they are transformed into various mostly humanoid forms).
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