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Jan. 25th, 2019 09:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
incognitajonesSo after years of hearing about it, I finally got around to reading Six of Crows and turns out the hype was warranted--it is that good. ladytharen and ![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
youareiron-andyouarestrong were right! (I know other people have mentioned it as well, maybe rain_sleet_snow?)
It’s one of those books where I was caught between pleasure as a reader and admiration as a writer: the first couple of chapters are a near-perfect example of genre writing--world-building, exposition, and characterization all wound into a tense action scene--and the pacing is never too rushed to follow, but picks up speed until your heart’s racing like the plot.
Now I just have to read Crooked Kingdom and then I can look forward to the upcoming TV series!
(although the Tumblr presence of the fandom seems... intense in an offputting sort of way. I think I’ll be avoiding it.)
ladytharen and rain_sleet_snow?)It’s one of those books where I was caught between pleasure as a reader and admiration as a writer: the first couple of chapters are a near-perfect example of genre writing--world-building, exposition, and characterization all wound into a tense action scene--and the pacing is never too rushed to follow, but picks up speed until your heart’s racing like the plot.
Now I just have to read Crooked Kingdom and then I can look forward to the upcoming TV series!
(although the Tumblr presence of the fandom seems... intense in an offputting sort of way. I think I’ll be avoiding it.)
