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What did you finish reading

Graveyard Dust, by Barbara Hambly: I loved it! It was brilliant. I loved Baron Samedi helping out Ben, Gabriel was adorable and Marie Laveau was really scary and for good reason. Olympe and Paul are such great parents and people. Mostly, I really liked the way voodoo was treated, especially Mamzelle Marie's comment on how maybe slaves don't want to pray to a god that looks like their masters. Also Rose. Rose was brilliant and I really felt for Nogent. And every tim Ben has cholera flash-backs, I want to hug him.


What are you reading

Sold Down the River, by Barbara Hambly: I've only just started, but I really love the friendships in this series. Shaw looking out for Ben! Olympe and Rose teaming up to make Ben do the right thing!

Hannibal's Odyssey: The Environmental Background to the Alpine Invasion of Italia by William Mahaney: This is very interesting so far, but very dense. I don't know if I'm projecting or what, but the author sometimes comes off as a big fanboy. I am more than okay with that. I am so so glad all the distances are given in metric, though. There was a bit where the Roman units were explained in imperial terms and frankly, I understood none of it.


What are you reading next

The Benjamin January series, still.

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Date: 2014-02-13 04:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wordsofastory.livejournal.com
Yay!I love Graveyard Dust, it's one of my favorites in the series. I love the courtroom scenes (the French vs English bits are so hilarious), I love Rose pretending to be other people to help with the investigation, love Ben and Hannibal getting poisoned at the end- it's like delicious dramatic h/c fic!- and I love the resolution with Baron Samedi. I also think it's really amazing how Hambly made Jumon sympathetic without lessening the cost of his actions.

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