Reading Update

Daughter Of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones

I've had this historical fantasy f/f book where one of them unexpectedly inherits the other as a bodyguard from her uncle's will on my to-read list for a while, and I'm very glad I got around to it. I was sold as soon as the will-reading scene happened. The burn was slow, Margerit and Barbara are very bad at communication but very good at religion (and religion magic??) and law, and the politics of this fake European country weren't too hard for me to follow. Will probably get around to reading the other books set in this world.

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The City In The Middle Of The Night by Charlie Jane Anders

Thought I'd keep up my accidental trend of reading the Hugo nominees for best novel, wound up with this Big Meh of a book. Don't get me wrong, the world-building is super cool - planet where the sun shines on only one half and so humanity lives along that sliver of dusk and dawn - but the actual story wasn't that gripping and I kept stumbling over the prose. Nothing like hating the characters that the two PoVs are most attached to. Also, that's not an ending!

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