Babel sounds fantastic, I'm going to pick it up.
You should post a review in !printsf@literature.cafe when you finish. :)
This is definitely true, the other example I am thinking of is Maximum Ride and how that all seems to happen in like two years at most haha.
I adore the Remembrance of Earth's Past series but the books are so dense and I have heard multiple people struggle to get through the beginning third of the first and second books. I might be biased (definitely biased) but the story arc is worth the slogging pace.
So federation is slowllllly but surely getting fixed! (And some updates, including financial report)
Happy to be able to help foster an amazing community of fellow literature lovers and writers! Please reach out if you need anything at all, I'm always watching. 👀
Just kidding. Maybe.
Are you going to continue on and read the other series?
Finished the core Percy Jackson series and moved onto Heroes of Olympus. Hoping to get the series wrapped up before the new book launch.
It seems federation is completely broken with other instances and I'm unsure how to proceed honestly
We'll get this figured out! No worries!
I was in a couple reading groups through 2020 but I always read the book too quickly and didn't want to spoil it for anyone else so I found it not super beneficial to me.
Testing out the best way to "cross-post" in Lemmy.
Maybe my expectations were too high after just finishing Thistlefoot... haha.
Definitely agree that some stuff did not age well at all.
You inspired me to start listening to the series again before the new book next month. Looks like I'm almost caught up with you. What did you think about Sea of Monsters? I thought it was kind of bad the second time through and that was sad to me. I guess that's the double edge knife of experiencing something with a lot of nostalgia.
To me, most of Ken Liu's writing follows that same pattern. I push myself to get through the first part because the reward is a poetical and moving second part.