What I have been reading
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scripsiMore backlog books read during last summer
Gail Carriger Competence The third installment of The Custard Protocol series. Prudence and her crew get themselves to Peru and find a new kind of vampire species. Though the focus on this book is actually on her best friend Primrose and her growing attraction to the were-lioness Sekhmet. I always enjoy Carriger’s books, though, on the whole, I like The Parasol Protectorate series better.
Gail Carriger How to Marry Werewolf Guilty of an indiscretion? Time to marry a werewolf.
Major Channing is a rather unpleasant werewolf in Carriger's full-length book; in this novella, we get to know him better. A young American woman, faith, is sent to England with the express purpose to marry a werewolf, as her family thinks she is ruined for anything else. On the whole, this novella is darker than Carriger’s books usually are. Channing’s backstory is not a happy one, and what has happened to Faith before she comes to England is horrible. It was a good novella anyway, and I enjoyed the romance.
Gail Carriger Romancing the Werewolf Gay. Victorian. Werewolves.
Another one of her romance novellas. Professor Lyall and young Biffy are werewolves in love, but by the end of the Parasol Protectorate series, Lyall is sent away for several decades. Now he has returned to his London pack as Beta to Biffy’s newly minted Alpha. They find it’s not so easy to pick up their love story. Also, someone has started to abandon babies at the pack's doorstep. I loved this. Both Biffy and Lyall are great favourites of mine, so it was really nice to have a novella focusing on both of them. And it says something that I enjoy Carriger's romances because I don’t actually like romances at all. I couldn’t even stomach Bujold’s Sharing Knife-series- and I adore Bujold. But I like Carriger’s light and humorous style.
Minette Walters Fox Evil, The Shape of Snakes, Disordered Minds, The Chameleon's Shadow, The Scold’s Bridle, The Echo, Dark Rooms and The Devil’s Feather. All re-reads. These are not a series but stand-alone crime novels. Walters seems to have moved on to true crime fictionalisations and historical novels, and I don’t mind. I really enjoyed her earlier books, The Scold’s Bridle being a favourite, but feel they get weaker and weaker. Most in this reread is just the later ones, and I generally found the characters more and more uninteresting. But I love Walters descriptions and her use of unreliable narrators. I also have a soft spot for old crimes being investigated.
Gail Carriger Competence The third installment of The Custard Protocol series. Prudence and her crew get themselves to Peru and find a new kind of vampire species. Though the focus on this book is actually on her best friend Primrose and her growing attraction to the were-lioness Sekhmet. I always enjoy Carriger’s books, though, on the whole, I like The Parasol Protectorate series better.
Gail Carriger How to Marry Werewolf Guilty of an indiscretion? Time to marry a werewolf.
Major Channing is a rather unpleasant werewolf in Carriger's full-length book; in this novella, we get to know him better. A young American woman, faith, is sent to England with the express purpose to marry a werewolf, as her family thinks she is ruined for anything else. On the whole, this novella is darker than Carriger’s books usually are. Channing’s backstory is not a happy one, and what has happened to Faith before she comes to England is horrible. It was a good novella anyway, and I enjoyed the romance.
Gail Carriger Romancing the Werewolf Gay. Victorian. Werewolves.
Another one of her romance novellas. Professor Lyall and young Biffy are werewolves in love, but by the end of the Parasol Protectorate series, Lyall is sent away for several decades. Now he has returned to his London pack as Beta to Biffy’s newly minted Alpha. They find it’s not so easy to pick up their love story. Also, someone has started to abandon babies at the pack's doorstep. I loved this. Both Biffy and Lyall are great favourites of mine, so it was really nice to have a novella focusing on both of them. And it says something that I enjoy Carriger's romances because I don’t actually like romances at all. I couldn’t even stomach Bujold’s Sharing Knife-series- and I adore Bujold. But I like Carriger’s light and humorous style.
Minette Walters Fox Evil, The Shape of Snakes, Disordered Minds, The Chameleon's Shadow, The Scold’s Bridle, The Echo, Dark Rooms and The Devil’s Feather. All re-reads. These are not a series but stand-alone crime novels. Walters seems to have moved on to true crime fictionalisations and historical novels, and I don’t mind. I really enjoyed her earlier books, The Scold’s Bridle being a favourite, but feel they get weaker and weaker. Most in this reread is just the later ones, and I generally found the characters more and more uninteresting. But I love Walters descriptions and her use of unreliable narrators. I also have a soft spot for old crimes being investigated.
