It is Ring Shout, actually :) Which I hadn't expected to enjoy this much, but that seems to be my general trajectory with Clark -- he writes stories that aren't necessarily my thing, but his narration and characters are so fun that I end up enjoying them anyway.
Empress is the one I was most looking forward to, though, so your hunch will hopefully also prove correct -- it's just that there were more holds on that one than the rest, so I'm still waiting for the library to deliver.
and having read the Gailey myself I'm pretty sure it's not that :P
Yeah, it is not that :P (that one's currently ranked last for me, probably, although to my surprise I did not hate it! Surprise because I have hated every previous Hugo-nominated Sarah Gailey thing I've read ("STET" and River of Teeth).
And you are also correct about the McGuire, which I'm picking my way through at 12% but keep dropping as soon as anything more interesting comes along, which is pretty much anything.
I have actually also read Finna, and it was one of the duds for me (which does make me a bit sad, as I had higher hopes based on enjoying some other stuff of Nino Cipri's). But I think maybe their stuff works better for me in the short form, like, flash-fiction sized.
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Empress is the one I was most looking forward to, though, so your hunch will hopefully also prove correct -- it's just that there were more holds on that one than the rest, so I'm still waiting for the library to deliver.
and having read the Gailey myself I'm pretty sure it's not that :P
Yeah, it is not that :P (that one's currently ranked last for me, probably, although to my surprise I did not hate it! Surprise because I have hated every previous Hugo-nominated Sarah Gailey thing I've read ("STET" and River of Teeth).
And you are also correct about the McGuire, which I'm picking my way through at 12% but keep dropping as soon as anything more interesting comes along, which is pretty much anything.
I have actually also read Finna, and it was one of the duds for me (which does make me a bit sad, as I had higher hopes based on enjoying some other stuff of Nino Cipri's). But I think maybe their stuff works better for me in the short form, like, flash-fiction sized.