olivermoss | (Reply)

I recall liking Shade's Children by Garth Nix when I was younger (probably a pre-teen or young teen at the time) but I also could not tell you a single thing about it off the top of my head beyond "the cover was greenish" and "sci-fi? I think?". My mom really likes the Old Kingdom series by him (Sabriel is the first book), but I slid off of it when I gave it a try as a teenager, so it's languished on the TBR list for almost 20 years now.

I'm still really hyped for Ninth House, and I'm sure Hell Bent will get put on the TBR as soon as I get to Ninth House. Though middle books of trilogies are often a bit of a struggle.

I genuinely love books that are that sort of 90s time capsule, because I remember it so well (screening calls! no cell phone! inability to easily look up song lyrics!) but writing 90s things now as a "period piece" is difficult.
It sounds like the similarities to Children of the Night are very amusing.