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Øyvind

oyviaase@books.babb.no

Joined 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Mostly reading fantasy and science fiction books, reading while commuting is genius :D

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Success! Øyvind has read 26 of 24 books.

reviewed Herskeren by Marianne Nelvik (Thazarenes makt, #1)

Marianne Nelvik: Herskeren (Hardcover, Norsk language, 2021, Publica) 4 stars

Katja Belmon er blitt en del av troppen - magikerne som skal beskytte folket mot …

Alright norsk fantasy

4 stars

Premisset bak boka er interesant, og relativt godt gjennomført, men jeg savner litt mere tid til å utforske stedene man besøker. Katja og Bragd er til tider litt ensformige, men ikke nok til at det skader fortellingen. Har man lyst til å lese norsk fantasy så er det verdt å lese den.

reviewed Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch (Gentleman Bastards, #3)

Scott Lynch: Republic of Thieves (Paperback, 2014, Orion Publishing Group, Limited) 5 stars

After their adventures on the high seas, Locke and Jean are brought back to earth …

The Gentleman Bastards continued adventures

5 stars

The fallout of Red Seas Under Red Skies, greatly influences the premise behind this book, as this book is set about two months after the last one. In my mind is this a strength of the narrative as we for once know the same things as the main characters. The story is interesting and it contains a few huge revelations about some of the characters. The character development is great and the world feels like lived in real place even though we again have new locations. The one big downside of the book is that it ends on a cliffhanger and that it is eleven year since this book was released.

If you liked any of the previous books read it, and I think most people that like fantasy will enjoy what we currently have of the Gentleman Bastards. My suggestion is to start at the first book however you …

reviewed Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch (Gentleman Bastards, #2)

Scott Lynch: Red Seas Under Red Skies (Paperback, Gollancz) 4 stars

In his highly acclaimed debut, The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch took us on …

The Gentleman Bastards strikes again

5 stars

A few years has passed since the last time we saw Locke and Jean, and they have established themselves in the city of Tal Verrarr planning another spectacular heist. It's interesting to see how they deal with everything that's they face of challenges in they way of their heist, and how they deal with the outfall of both them and the ending of the last book. Even though we have moved away from the city of Camorr is the worldbuilding still great and we get to visit quite a few interesting places, and meet a few interesting persons. A few potential action sequences where cut from the book, however the way it was done was quite clever so I can't be to hard about it.

It's a great book that I'd recomend to everyone that have read The Lies of Locke Lamora if you haven't I'd recomend that you start …

William Gibson, William F. Gibson: The Peripheral (Paperback, 2015, Penguin Books, Limited) 4 stars

Depending on her veteran brother's benefits in a city where jobs outside the drug trade …

A drepressing future

4 stars

First of all I enjoyed the TV series more than the book. Both are a bit slow at the beginning, and to certain degrees follow different story lines, which is kinda expected. The world is kinda interesting, but the setting never gripped me as much as I hoped it would, and it is a depressing setting. All in all well worth a read. If you enjoyed the show you might be a bit disapointed by the book all depending on which part of the show you enjoyed the most.

William Gibson, William F. Gibson: The Peripheral (Paperback, 2015, Penguin Books, Limited) 4 stars

Depending on her veteran brother's benefits in a city where jobs outside the drug trade …

This book took an unexpectedly long time to read, I guess commuting more by bike instead of public transport is partly to blame. The book had an interesting end, it did however take a little while to pick up steam.

reviewed Empire's Ruin by Brian Staveley (Ashes of the unhewn throne, #1)

Brian Staveley: Empire's Ruin (Paperback, 2022, Pan Macmillan) 5 stars

A way different feeling book than the previous books

5 stars

This book is set some years after The last mortal bond, and it is the first book in a new trilogy. There are repeat characters from his earlier books as well as some totally new ones, the amount of character development some of the characters go through is extremely large when compared to his previous books and I like it. Even if I don't necessarily always like the way the character develop is it mostly rooted in reasons that's understandable. The world is expanded quite a lot in this book and we learn even more of the history of it. And I'm really looking forward to see how things will play out in the next books. I think that most people would enjoy the book, and I think quite a few people will like this book even if they disliked the earlier books by Brian Staveley