TBR #10 and #9. I didn’t finish reading these two books for two different reasons, neither of which lies with the books themselves.
1. Not in the mood. Solstice Wood by Patricia A. McKillip surprised me by being set in the real world about real people (rather than in a magical world about magical people). An inherited house with a fairy wood makes for an excellent story, a la Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle, just not the story that I expected to be reading.
2. Not really my genre. The Darkness that Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker is the first in an epic fantasy trilogy. But there’s something about the epic style that I always seem to struggle against–and I think that this novel is quite a good specimen of that particular subgenre. People who like George R. R. Martin will appreciate the scale and pace of Bakker’s first novel. I am not one of them, though I tried very hard to be.
Now what? I am debating between Miracle and Other Christmas Stories by Connie Willis, which I must finish before the end of the year, as it was a Christmas present from 2010, and Kingdom of Gods by N. K. Jemisin, the conclusion to a trilogy that I’ve liked very much.
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