characters who act, speak, and feel like grown adults are aged down into teens to appeal to the YA market (*cough*SixOfCrows*cough*)
Hahaha, I was definitely thinking of Six of Crows before I got to your parenthetical :P
if C.S. Lewis had wanted to write a gay BDSM mystery romance.
LOL! But yeah, my friend quoted the BDSM pining bits, which possibly gives me a skewed perception of the book. (This is the same friend who lured me into reading Captive Prince some years ago, which I did enjoy, but also I do have some prior evidence that said friend clicks better with Pacat's writing than I do, so I haven't tried out Dark Rise etc. so far.)
I apparently committed a grave sin among Robin Hobb fans and skipped the Liveship Trilogy lol. So now I'm working up the courage to go back and read that before moving on to Rain Wilds
Haha, is that frowned upon? It certainly seemed quite separate from the Fitz books, in the part of it I got to... Though I am aware that the Fool appears in there (or at least I think so).
In any case, it's not that I didn't like Liveships -- to our other conversation, I actually found that subseries a good option to scratch the ASOIAF itch while waiting for more ASOIAF -- it feels quite ASOIAF-esque with the large and far-flung cast, and there's even a character who reminds me a whole lot of Sansa (who I know is a polarizing character in ASOIAF fandom, but I came to like her over the course of the books, so having a character who reminded me of her was a plus). Actually I think I fist read the two books of Livetraders that were out at the time and then went back and read the Fitz books (but this was before I started keeping track of reading on LJ, so I could be making that up). But by the time I got to the third book, I think I kind of ran out of steam... and when I tried something else by Robin Hobb later, I discovered that I seemed to have lost the knack for getting into secondary world fantasy doorstoppers.
The Tawny Man trilogy is seriously amazing and as a sinner myself I say just go ahead and skip right to Fool's Errand if you didn't like Liveship. But don't tell them I told you to! :D
Haha! I have definitely heard good things about it! (and the Fool was a very interesting character even in the Royal Assassin books)
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Hahaha, I was definitely thinking of Six of Crows before I got to your parenthetical :P
if C.S. Lewis had wanted to write a gay BDSM mystery romance.
LOL! But yeah, my friend quoted the BDSM pining bits, which possibly gives me a skewed perception of the book. (This is the same friend who lured me into reading Captive Prince some years ago, which I did enjoy, but also I do have some prior evidence that said friend clicks better with Pacat's writing than I do, so I haven't tried out Dark Rise etc. so far.)
I apparently committed a grave sin among Robin Hobb fans and skipped the Liveship Trilogy lol. So now I'm working up the courage to go back and read that before moving on to Rain Wilds
Haha, is that frowned upon? It certainly seemed quite separate from the Fitz books, in the part of it I got to... Though I am aware that the Fool appears in there (or at least I think so).
In any case, it's not that I didn't like Liveships -- to our other conversation, I actually found that subseries a good option to scratch the ASOIAF itch while waiting for more ASOIAF -- it feels quite ASOIAF-esque with the large and far-flung cast, and there's even a character who reminds me a whole lot of Sansa (who I know is a polarizing character in ASOIAF fandom, but I came to like her over the course of the books, so having a character who reminded me of her was a plus). Actually I think I fist read the two books of Livetraders that were out at the time and then went back and read the Fitz books (but this was before I started keeping track of reading on LJ, so I could be making that up). But by the time I got to the third book, I think I kind of ran out of steam... and when I tried something else by Robin Hobb later, I discovered that I seemed to have lost the knack for getting into secondary world fantasy doorstoppers.
The Tawny Man trilogy is seriously amazing and as a sinner myself I say just go ahead and skip right to Fool's Errand if you didn't like Liveship. But don't tell them I told you to! :D
Haha! I have definitely heard good things about it! (and the Fool was a very interesting character even in the Royal Assassin books)