Reading Wednesday
Nov. 13th, 2019 03:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyCurrently reading: Middlegame by Seanan McGuire. I actually thought I was going to finish that last night but I'm so ill that I passed out, sans sleeping pills, before I got to the end.
But anyway, unless the next 20-30 pages or so are somehow terrible, I think this is one of my favourites, which is saying a lot because I've been a fan of everything I've read by her and her pseudonym. It follows two twins, Roger and Dodger (because their creator is a Bad Person who shouldn't be allowed to name children), separated by adoption but linked by a telepathic connection, created by an alchemist to embody the Doctrine, which will give them—and whoever controls them—godlike abilities to alter reality. Roger is brilliant at languages, Dodger at mathematics, and part of the appeal of the book beyond its very cool worldbuilding and premise is its ability to capture what it's like to grow up as an unevenly gifted child.
It's also beautifully written in the way that most of her books are, and very much a page-turner in the way that all of her books are.
But anyway, unless the next 20-30 pages or so are somehow terrible, I think this is one of my favourites, which is saying a lot because I've been a fan of everything I've read by her and her pseudonym. It follows two twins, Roger and Dodger (because their creator is a Bad Person who shouldn't be allowed to name children), separated by adoption but linked by a telepathic connection, created by an alchemist to embody the Doctrine, which will give them—and whoever controls them—godlike abilities to alter reality. Roger is brilliant at languages, Dodger at mathematics, and part of the appeal of the book beyond its very cool worldbuilding and premise is its ability to capture what it's like to grow up as an unevenly gifted child.
It's also beautifully written in the way that most of her books are, and very much a page-turner in the way that all of her books are.
