Various Dragaera books (Brust)
Jun. 7th, 2019 09:13 pmIssola, Dzur, Iorich (rereads), Hawk (DNF), Vallista 3+/5. This is ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rachelmanija's fault, as so many things are, for posting about these books and how there was a ton of worldbuilding going on!
Well, originally it is D's fault, in the sense that when I was a wee grad student and he was a grad student of somewhat more seniority (I think this was around the time we started dating, actually), he fed me all the Brust books at that time (and tangentially all the Bujold, and some Iain Banks which I never did particularly like all that much).
Not coincidentally, the first Dragaera book that came out after I binge-read all of D's books (and then probably reread) was Issola. All the ones from that point on I have never reread and therefore have correspondingly fewer memories of.
Meanwhile, as I mentioned,rachelmanija said there was cool worldbuilding stuff in Vallista, which it turns out I hadn't read yet (I still had not read Hawk), so I figured I'd start a reread back at Issola. D is a completist and so we have copies of all the books, except as it turns out we somehow missed Tiassa, so that's the only one I haven't reread yet.
Halfway through Dzur I remembered why I'd stopped reading them. They're great caper books, but lately there hasn't been enough -- I now need to append this as "not enough things I understand" -- to hold me besides the capers. (Well, that and Loiosh, who remains my absolute favorite character in every single book. He is cute! (That is still probably my favorite line in any book.))
Vallista changed that, and I didn't even really get that it did until I went looking for the spoiler posts afterwards. So, yeah, there's some worldbuilding going on!
( Spoilers. )
(I only read Vallista in June, the others in May, but I was always going to post about them as a group if I posted about them at all.)
rachelmanija's fault, as so many things are, for posting about these books and how there was a ton of worldbuilding going on!Well, originally it is D's fault, in the sense that when I was a wee grad student and he was a grad student of somewhat more seniority (I think this was around the time we started dating, actually), he fed me all the Brust books at that time (and tangentially all the Bujold, and some Iain Banks which I never did particularly like all that much).
Not coincidentally, the first Dragaera book that came out after I binge-read all of D's books (and then probably reread) was Issola. All the ones from that point on I have never reread and therefore have correspondingly fewer memories of.
Meanwhile, as I mentioned,
rachelmanija said there was cool worldbuilding stuff in Vallista, which it turns out I hadn't read yet (I still had not read Hawk), so I figured I'd start a reread back at Issola. D is a completist and so we have copies of all the books, except as it turns out we somehow missed Tiassa, so that's the only one I haven't reread yet.Halfway through Dzur I remembered why I'd stopped reading them. They're great caper books, but lately there hasn't been enough -- I now need to append this as "not enough things I understand" -- to hold me besides the capers. (Well, that and Loiosh, who remains my absolute favorite character in every single book. He is cute! (That is still probably my favorite line in any book.))
Vallista changed that, and I didn't even really get that it did until I went looking for the spoiler posts afterwards. So, yeah, there's some worldbuilding going on!
( Spoilers. )
(I only read Vallista in June, the others in May, but I was always going to post about them as a group if I posted about them at all.)
