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frith_in_thornsI finally got around to reading Tides of the Titans, by Thoraiya Dyer, which is book 3 of her Titan's Forest trilogy. (I just went on Amazon to check the spelling of her name, and found that in the UK at least you can currently buy the three-book set in the kindle store for £1.50, which is a pretty amazing deal!)
I really enjoyed it! I'm useless at book-blogging, but thought I'd give it a shoutout. Although I seriously wish it came with a summary of what happened in the previous two books, because I read them ages ago very spaced out, and even having read book 3 I still can't really remember. (They all have different main characters*, which doesn't help.)
*Book 1 had as its main character a mildly amoral 16-yo girl who thought she was extremely heroic even as she was objectively not, and this was her growth arc, but I am really bad at recognising when not to take protagonists at their word and instead I was mostly stressed out reading. I should probably re-read sometime because I know I'd enjoy it a lot more know with that understanding! Anyway, the other two books didn't have that issue for me. Book 3 has the inverse, actually, with a young man as the protag who considers himself to be a very dark and edgy amoral thief, but actually he was clearly just a disaster (affectionate).
Anyway, it is set in an UNREASONABLY GIANT FOREST with a magic system based around the using and sometimes eating the bones of Old Gods, and the worldbuilding in general is utterly, utterly batshit but in a really entertaining way where it somehow all hangs together (why would baby pterodactyls NOT turn into stars I ask you). Also there are lots of queer people and no homophobia. And the author clearly cares a LOT about trees and giant trees and fantasy ecosystems and I appreciate this level of detail. If you do too then you may enjoy this!
I really enjoyed it! I'm useless at book-blogging, but thought I'd give it a shoutout. Although I seriously wish it came with a summary of what happened in the previous two books, because I read them ages ago very spaced out, and even having read book 3 I still can't really remember. (They all have different main characters*, which doesn't help.)
*Book 1 had as its main character a mildly amoral 16-yo girl who thought she was extremely heroic even as she was objectively not, and this was her growth arc, but I am really bad at recognising when not to take protagonists at their word and instead I was mostly stressed out reading. I should probably re-read sometime because I know I'd enjoy it a lot more know with that understanding! Anyway, the other two books didn't have that issue for me. Book 3 has the inverse, actually, with a young man as the protag who considers himself to be a very dark and edgy amoral thief, but actually he was clearly just a disaster (affectionate).
Anyway, it is set in an UNREASONABLY GIANT FOREST with a magic system based around the using and sometimes eating the bones of Old Gods, and the worldbuilding in general is utterly, utterly batshit but in a really entertaining way where it somehow all hangs together (why would baby pterodactyls NOT turn into stars I ask you). Also there are lots of queer people and no homophobia. And the author clearly cares a LOT about trees and giant trees and fantasy ecosystems and I appreciate this level of detail. If you do too then you may enjoy this!
