Snowflake Challenge #7

[florianschild]

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a wishlist of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your wishlist if you feel comfortable doing so. Maybe someone will grant a wish. Check out other people's posts. Maybe you will grant a wish. If any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.

I wish I may, I wish I might...

1. Recommendations for good Baby-Sitter's Club fic set when the characters are adults. My favorite when I was a girl was Claudia, but any ships and characters are fine! I'm totally new to the fandom so I'll go in any direction.
2. Book recommendations that feature an older sibling acting as a surrogate parent or raising younger siblings. Bonus points if it's angsty!
3. Book recommendations for books that reward second time reading. Essentially, books that take on a new meaning or have hidden easter eggs that you find once you have the full context.
4. Fanart or fanart recs for any of my fandoms (The Rifter, Halfway Human, Half Bad, Dragon's Winter, and/or Dark Rise).
5. Please read The Rifter or Halfway Human and come squee about them with me. If you've already read them, that counts too. (be mindful of TWs - I love sad books with crapsack worlds.)

Comments

[florianschild]

Oh for real? I read the first novella and I enjoyed it but it didn't strike me as something I would want to reread. Maybe I should try one of the full length novels!

Thank you so much for the recommendation though!

[grav_ity]

*hyperfocus activated*

OKAY, so they are quite serialized, which means if you just jump into Network Effect, you might not get the full impact (it'll still be good, though! NE is where the series shifts a bit, it's just also very reliant on the backstory). So...depending on how you feel about completionism, it may or may not serve you better.

Free's narration is truly great (I don't love "voices" in audiobooks, and he doesn't do them, but you can still tell who is talking, because he shifts a bit). I listen at 1.5 speed.

[florianschild]

Oooh ok you've piqued my interest in the audiobooks for sure because I generally don't like voices either.

I didn't actually realize the sequels were novellas as well, I thought only the first one was. I'm not opposed to novellas and I definitely prefer to read in order. So I guess the next one is Artificial Condition? It looks like my library has the audiobooks so I'll give it a shot!

[hamsterwoman]

As a drive-by data point -- Artificial Condition was the installment that took me from "this is nice but I'm not super invested" about Murderbot to actually being a fan of the series.

(And yeah, definitely recommend reading the novellas before jumping into Network Effect. Internal chronology order and series publication order are not totally the same, but I think either is fine.)

[dray]

Buckle up; they're quite charming reads skinned with crapsack terrible worlds and crapsack terrible villains!