The state of being me

[bjornwilde]

Last night was tough. I am usually insanely hopeful no matter what life throws at me, like foolishly so, but the things the GOP have been getting up to have just been wearing me down and I just couldn't shake the existential dread. I'm somewhat better today, but it's still hard to face a supposed democracy where the party in power so blatantly ignores the majority opinion in favor of corporations and greed.

Anyway, moving on with a Vlad update. I finished Jhegaala and Iorich. I liked Jhegaala a lot. It was neat to see Vlad being in a culture so alien to him, even if he was with his own biological kind. Plus him having to do his own investigations without his crew was interesting. Iorich was good as well but somehow I left the book feeling disappointed. I don't know if there was a promise to the story that didn't get fulfilled, I had hoped for more resolution with Aliera and Morrolan, or if it was too much like other past novels. It did feel like it was setting the stage for a future book. 

I'm onto Tiassa now and am very much hooked.

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

You're really blasting through Vlad! :)

Iorich was definitely a book that left me wanting more. I'd been waiting for so long for a post-Issola reunion with Morrolan and Aliera, and then it actually happened, and it was good, but so brief. And it left me with a lot of questions about what various people (Zerika, Morrolan, Aliera) really thought they were doing / what was going on at various points.

Glad to hear you're enjoying Tiassa, The first part is like classic 'early Vlad', and each section is different, which is neat. (Well, I could've done with less Paarfi narration, probably, but still neat.)

[bjornwilde]

I so wanted more when Morrolan and Vlad spoke for the first time post-Issola. I mean I guess the brevity of the reunion and not talking about things fit, but still. And the same with Aleira, but again, it fit. I just hope more happens later?

I'm still in the first part of Tiassa, just past the prologue...which had me really raising my eyebrows! I also intrigued by the weird Easterner Sethra brought Vlad to talk to; the fellow Vlad has been narrating all the books to perhaps? I've always felt the books read more like a monologue than a first person narrative.

[hamsterwoman]

the weird Easterner Sethra brought Vlad to talk to; the fellow Vlad has been narrating all the books to perhaps?

Yeah, that's what I guessed/assumed, too.

And, same. I don't actually expect Vlad and Morrolan to talk about their ~feelings~ post-Issola, because that would be out of character, but I wanted something more. There is a BIT more in a future book, but not as much as I would have wanted then, either.

But, anyway, it was actually Iorich that sent me rereading the whole series a couple of years back, because it sort of teased with that flavor of early Vlad but didn't have the ensemble feeling I loved and missed.