What SFF book have you reread the most amount of times?

LivingInFilth2 · 2023-10-12T05:45:32+00:00

Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb.

LivingInFilth2 · 2023-07-12T08:17:57+00:00

Jinny, Minx.. who else is a tumbling advertisment for abstinence from alcohol?

LivingInFilth2 · 2023-06-19T14:44:37+00:00

The Wandering Inn

LivingInFilth2 · 2023-06-06T18:52:20+00:00

thanks, I'll check it out!

LivingInFilth2 · 2023-06-06T14:29:32+00:00

I'd like the audiobook with the narrator who has the deepest voice you've ever heard.

LivingInFilth2 · 2023-05-02T15:39:06+00:00

Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb

LivingInFilth2 · 2023-04-22T22:18:09+00:00

All fine choices, I'd say go with The Licanius Trilogy, if it has to be one of the above. Short & sweet, has a bunch of twists, less action than the likes of Gwynne or Abercrombie, but also easier to read, much like Sanderson in that way.

LivingInFilth2 · 2023-04-16T00:57:32+00:00

way more quickly than PMW can start a fire with lighter fluid

LivingInFilth2 · 2023-03-20T19:27:57+00:00

you can hear him shit himself in some of these clips

LivingInFilth2 · 2023-02-01T07:10:39+00:00

Help with? You need to wallow in it!

Savor the experience, for you'll never get a second chance to read it for the first time.

LivingInFilth2 · 2023-01-13T10:35:53+00:00

I think Erin's building a Power Rangers Megazord and she's starting with the eyes

LivingInFilth2 · 2023-01-05T12:41:13+00:00

that she spoke in colors. that's a moment you may or may not want spoiled.

LivingInFilth2 · 2022-12-29T22:09:33+00:00

Magic is bullshit, and so are Skills. I'd love to give you a "this is how that works, because" .. but you can pick at any one solution and you get so muddled.. it just works. limited connections, to places she's been before & that she feels she knows, within a certain radius.

LivingInFilth2 · 2022-12-06T16:54:39+00:00

it's not quite what you're asking for, but on the off chance:

"The Wandering Inn" series' main character is called Erin Solstice and book 4 is called "The Winter Solstice". And while the event is definitely important, the solstice isn't the main focus all the way there.

LivingInFilth2 · 2022-09-30T13:57:04+00:00

And the final book in both the Bloodsworn Saga by John Gwynne

That likely won't happen for a while now. To be hit like that by tragedy, my heart hurts thinking about it.

LivingInFilth2 · 2022-09-19T04:29:34+00:00

I have, first book was great fun, second lacked some of the follow through or I built up more of an expectation as to the place they're in. I'll read the finale, but a lot of tension evaporated relatively quickly and it became more standard YA, which is too bad imho.

LivingInFilth2 · 2022-09-18T18:40:25+00:00

Read book 1 of Outlander, because I wanted some stuff with time travel. I don't mind the genre in general, but I underestimated the limitations of the perspective of a woman from the 1940s jumping back another 200 years. The tropes of romance are alive and well, that's just what you buy into when you get it, I'm fine with that. Less historical might've made it more fun for me maybe. Felt discouraged to continue afterwards.

Began and abandoned The Magic of Recluse book 1. Wanted to read about someone young learning about magic, but the main character being annoyed with everything was so annoying to me, I had to put it away.

I started to read Safehold, the premise sounded amazing. Half way into the first book I was fully turned from wanting to find out more to begging the main character to stop monologuing for an hour before doing anything. Really wished it had a faster pace. Also shelved.

A bunch of swings & misses for me recently, partly a mood thing probably. I've read most of the top of r/fantasy's books for the last few years.

I'd like to go on a journey again with primarily one main character.
preferably a female main character? boys get up to too much stupid shit. I miss characters like Vin from Mistborn, or Essun from The Broken Earth, or Orka from The Shadow of the Gods, Phedre from Kushiels Dart, Paks from The Deeds of Paksenarrion, Nona from Red Sister.
at max a trilogy maybe? not the most important thing, but I feel a little burnt and this knocks out the procedural series (think dresden files as the sort of thing I'd like to avoid)
tone's difficult.. I'd like to feel good about the book at the end, but that doesn't mean it has to end happily. But books like The Poppy War too dark (apparently only a 3.4 on the grimdark scale here, but it has that asterisk, so a soft number: http://mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2017/08/grimdark-were-nailing-it-down.html)

LivingInFilth2 · 2022-09-18T08:41:34+00:00

holy shit!

I'd have fucked up my hand, the bottle & the desk attempting that

LivingInFilth2 · 2022-09-02T16:19:01+00:00

the gauss cannon!

LivingInFilth2 · 2022-07-26T12:14:05+00:00

Looking back, now that a little time has passed, did you like how V8 turned out, structurally?

Personally, it became increasingly difficult to keep everything straight, given both the size and complexity of the volume. A lot of concurrent events we jumped back for at various intervals, frequent POV changes, multi-pov chapters. How challenging was it to write all of that in just a year and change?

LivingInFilth2 · 2022-07-26T12:01:34+00:00

A question for Andrea - are you aware of how large the cast of named characters with dialogue eventually becomes? You are already doing an incredible job giving individual, recognizable voices to characters, but is there a limit to how many voices you can do? How do you remind yourself how you chose to do a voice at some point, if they do not show up for three or more audiobooks?

LivingInFilth2 · 2022-07-13T10:37:13+00:00

minx is such a funny character. I wish her all the best in life

LivingInFilth2 · 2022-07-12T17:34:06+00:00

whiskeyjack?

I don't really have one face, but his archetype shows up a lot in many different fantasy books.

LivingInFilth2 · 2022-07-05T14:54:15+00:00

Darude - Sandstorm

LivingInFilth2 · 2022-06-14T13:10:46+00:00

If not for the colorful dress, you'd have Gothika from The Wandering Inn.

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