Caporegime
Re-reading book 1 of Wheel of Time. Feels nice to revisit this world and it’s characters.
My opinion on RP2 is that it was only written because of the success of the first one. I can imagine the publishers insisted that Cline write a follow-up to capitalise on the success of the first. All the culture references seem to need explaining (widen the market to those who were not there at the time), the story is a repeat of the the first book, and the ending is particularly poor. One of the characters also puts Jodie Whittaker's Dr Who ahead of David Tennant's (unforgivable). There's a few other SJW tropes which date already, but it's pretty much the first book again, but without the charm.
The first book I felt was a love letter to the era, the second is for love of the money from writing a sequel to a hit book. It has no soul.
Damning report of the book, I will give it a read and set expectations lower as I loved the first one.
Re-reading book 1 of Wheel of Time. Feels nice to revisit this world and it’s characters.
Magician : Raymond E Feist
It's one the few books I have read multiple times. I would love it to be turned into series. Films are so yesterday (unless of course the film is 3hrs long)
The Three Body Problem series by Liu Cixin
Yeah that wasn't the best. I'd forgotten most of that with having read it a few years back, but it's not pleasant.I really don't give up with books, it takes something special to make me give up a book or series. Only one I've given up on in recent times is Peter Brett because of the weird rape stuff.