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Wolf At The Door - I'd been so confused by Wolf at the Door being considered such a popular book in m/m circles. I thought I'd hard DNF'd it due to a harsh interrogation scene and other dark themes. Turns out, I'd confused it with a *different* werewolf murder mystery in a rural area. In my defense, the other book opens with a long walk up a muddy trail and the cover art for Wolf at the Door is muddy ground.
I'm glad one of my book clubs picked it. I'd planned on just pushing through to see what the fuss was about and also discuss the book.
I really liked it. The mystery aspect was way better than in most mystery plots I read. I am not as taken by it as some other people are, but I will continue the series. I have a feeling, considering the buzz over the books, that it either improves as it goes on or just spending more time with the characters means getting more attached to them. Also, it's nice to get into another of the popular series... instead of being confused AF
Winter's Orbit - I felt a bit bad switching this book to 'read' on my LibraryThing. I skimmed a lot after a while. A lot about the book makes more sense if you basically consider it an early Trek novel. The aesthetics, the way space-faring tech does and doesn't work, etc, all sort of clicks if you just decide that this came directly out of TOS Kirk/Spock fandom. Also, the bear thing. The way fandom embraced the joke about how bears are on Vulcan, you cannot tell me that the flora and fauna being exactly like Earth's and then that weird deadly bear doesn't come out of early Trek fandom's love of the whole Vulcan bear thing. This is so TOS-fandom coded. Still, I didn't really click with it.
I'm glad one of my book clubs picked it. I'd planned on just pushing through to see what the fuss was about and also discuss the book.
I really liked it. The mystery aspect was way better than in most mystery plots I read. I am not as taken by it as some other people are, but I will continue the series. I have a feeling, considering the buzz over the books, that it either improves as it goes on or just spending more time with the characters means getting more attached to them. Also, it's nice to get into another of the popular series... instead of being confused AF
Winter's Orbit - I felt a bit bad switching this book to 'read' on my LibraryThing. I skimmed a lot after a while. A lot about the book makes more sense if you basically consider it an early Trek novel. The aesthetics, the way space-faring tech does and doesn't work, etc, all sort of clicks if you just decide that this came directly out of TOS Kirk/Spock fandom. Also, the bear thing. The way fandom embraced the joke about how bears are on Vulcan, you cannot tell me that the flora and fauna being exactly like Earth's and then that weird deadly bear doesn't come out of early Trek fandom's love of the whole Vulcan bear thing. This is so TOS-fandom coded. Still, I didn't really click with it.
