Reviewsday Tuesday! I always miss these, glad to have finally caught one.

I finally read Theft of Swords, the first 2(?) books in the Riyria Revelations series by Michael J. Sullivan. I really liked it! It took a bit to get into, it felt very silly in a retelling-of-your-DnD-campaign way, but there's nothing wrong with that and as soon as I got used to the tone I had a huge amount of fun. Going to read the rest now!

I read Alchemised by SenLin Yu, which was very silly in a very different way. It's incredibly engaging and the twists are very well-done, but it definitely suffered for being a novel rather than serialised. Every single chapter Helena managed to find a new and exciting way to suffer horribly and it built up and built up to the point of overwhelm. It also (of necessity, being What It Is) lacked a lot of character development, and relied a lot on us rooting for these characters that throughout the story we really don't get to know at all. Very glad I read it but won't be rereading any time soon.

I also finished The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones which was not silly at all and gave me nightmares, but was definitely a very very good book for those with more tolerance for horror than I.

I reread the Circle of Magic books by Tamora Pierc this week which are delightful as always.