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Books read in September

Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution R.F. Kuang 🎵 read by Chris Lew Kum and Billie Fulford-Brown I loved this book so much that the second I finished listening to it from the library I went and bought a paperback copy. Magic schools and anti-colonialism, what's not to love? Everyone should read this book.

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor 🎵 read by Mara Wilson A tragic meditation on revenge. I love that they were able to give us her backstory in detail while still allowing the Faceless Old Woman to remain mysterious.

How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse K. Eason 🎵 read by Nicole Poole An interesting twist on classic fairy tales. It is the fifth multiversal fairy tale novel I've read this year, and the only one purposefully chosen for that unintentional theme.

Lords and Ladies Terry Pratchett 📖 I always enjoy a Discworld Witches book. Probably would be funnier if I was better versed in Shakespeare. Also a multiversal fairy tale novel.

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World Henry Grabar 🎵 read by Rob Shapiro Let's get rid of free parking and street parking!

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Reading How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse and I have once again become very fond of a character who is both 1) abused and 2) a little shit.

That being said, all these characters are very good. Also I am just past halfway through so Jaed Moss might just turn out rancid, which will not . . . necessarily stop me from loving him. Technically he’s a little rancid already.

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Weird & Wonderful Wednesday

Princess Rory has many ‘fairy blessings’. She can do things like see through flattery, always knows the truth, etc. She also thinks that she’s going to be the next to inherit her father’s throne. But, then her father is assassinated, and her little brother is born (Whoops, primogeniture). She is betrothed to a Prince in a far off world, and when she gets there she finds a plot that would take her new betrothed’s throne. Suddenly she, and a few others have to stop this from happening. She has to rescue the Prince. Will she be able to?

It’s Sci Fi, but also a Fairy Tale, and the combination is just really fun. And the characters. They were just awesome (or horrible, depending on what they were supposed to be, heh). I also really liked the world-building. This isn’t exactly a Fairy Tale world that we are used to (from Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, etc.), but, also, it sort of is if that makes sense (yes, I know, it sorta doesn’t). It was just a really really fun read. Ooh, and, there is a second book in this Duology.

You may like this book If you Liked: Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott, An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors by Curtis Craddock, or Behind the Throne by K.B. Wagers

How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse by K. Eason

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How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse, by K. Eason

This was a book that seemed going in like I was going to adore it (a book set IN SPACE with inspiration from fairy tale tropes!), so I was really disappointed to discover that I mostly found it....fine. The kind of book where I'm sure that there are people out there for whom this is the perfect book, and I only wish I were one of them.

I think my biggest problem with it is this: each chapter begins with some very deliberate infodumping. And although I can see that it was a deliberate choice and even see what the author was going for and appreciate it, the end result is that the narrative keeps on deflating its own tension over and over and over again. Which means I never felt truly drawn into the story.

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Space Opera: How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse

Space Opera: How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse

How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse, by K. Eason, (Oct. 2019, DAW), $26, ISBN: 978-0-7564-1529-7

Ages 14+

The first in a duology, How Rory Thorne Broke the Universestarts out with a hard fairy tale line: the new princess is born to the Thorne family line, and fairies come to bestow gifts on her. One fairy is pretty teed off that her invitation… got lost in the mail, let’s say, but there’s no…

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