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What I Read March 2022

Tricked into Becoming the Heroine’s Stepmother chapters 34-38 (still enjoying)

His Majesty’s Proposal chapters 44-49 (still enjoying)

The Remarried Empress chapters 98-102 (still enjoying)

Finished! Only took most of February... ^_^’ This book focuses it seems a lot on getting a lot of people to the Shattered Plains, letting more characters come through. I quite enjoyed it.

Re-read all the Death Note volumes I own, and I do still really enjoy this manga, and it’s been fun catching little things that maybe a missed the first time through.

Quite enjoyed this little book, it put down of paper thoughts I’ve had. (now to make everyone I know read it)

A good book 2, not as intense feeling as book one, but I did enjoy it.

Was fun meeting even more new characters and Tanjiro continuing to be his gentle friendly self was heartwarming.

Re-read this as I was feeling sad, and this is one of my comfort reads. ^_^

Started this and Sullivan has continued drinking his respect women juice, very interesting considering what happened on the last few pages where this is going and how it results in the world of the Ryiria Revelations. ^_^

I keep wanting to shake this woman and tell her to make better choices. XD

Ended up reading this in one sitting, very enjoyable.

You go Doctor Strange! (aww Zelma!)

The Interdependency Trilogy by John Scalzi

When the Prophet Rachela created the Interdependency, humanity was falling apart and desperately needed the series of specializations and monopolies that tied each habitat together. Now, as the shadow of a disaster unlike any the Interdependency has weathered falls over the empire, an untrained emperox, an unimportant scion of a noble house, and a mathematician will be thrown together in an attempt to save everyone.

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All in all, I really enjoyed this trilogy. The worldbuilding was thorough, complex, and unique, the writing was witty and engaging, and the characters were memorable and easy to be invested in. I particularly enjoyed Cardenia, the Emperox who is absolutely in over her head. This is also definitely a space opera - there’s a lot going on in these books, with political machinations, extremely large threats to the empire, and internal strife. I was sucked in very rapidly, and finished this trilogy much faster than I’ve finished a series in a long time.

However, I was kind of disappointed by the final volume in the series. It has a lot to juggle by then, but the ending just wasn’t what I expected. There was a particular line that seemed to suggest one thing, only for that not to be true; it felt like it ended fairly abruptly; and it left quite a lot unanswered. It makes sense in one sense, since this is really clearly a trilogy about the collapse of an empire, which is a fairly messy process. But at the same time, I wanted more from it.

Overall, though, it was a really interesting trilogy with good characters, unique worldbuilding, and an engaging plot, and I’m very glad I read it.

Series Rating: 4.5/5

The Collapsing Empire: 5/5

The Consuming Fire: 4.5/5

The Last Emperox: 4/5

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Currently reading (cover by Sparth)

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Feeling the stress lately at work, but here are some books I’m excited to read soon (hopefully).

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The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi

The Interdependency Sequence 2

4.5 out of 5.

Cardenia Wu-Patrick, the newly crowned Emperox Grayland II, knew that the very idea of the Flow collapsing will either be dismissed, despite scientific evidence, or deliberately ignored. So she comes up with a plan. Grayland II announces she has had visions.

The Church of the Interdependency may have been started due to the visions of Prophet Rachela, but they privately didn't like the very idea of them, finding that visions led to schisms. And schisms are disruptive. Priests who claim to have visions are sent to mental health experts to be "cured" or "retired". How will they handle the nominal head of the Church having them?

Grayland's goal is to save as many people as possible. Unfortunately, others are more concerned with their power and wealthy, even if it is at the expense of millions of people who are not them. She needs allies and friends, but the very idea of the collapse is just putting a bigger target on Cardenia.

The stakes are getting higher as the predictions about the Flow come to fruition with the second predicted collapse, although it happened faster than expected. This time out we have politics, intrigue, exploration, double- and triple-crosses, unexpected discoveries, and more. The body count is also increasing as the different plotters' plans crash up against each other. The reasons might differ, but the common goal is to remove the Emperox from power. I have to admit that I wasn't disappointed by some of those who met their justly earned ends, but others were sad.

A slower build to more action and lots of surprises pack "The Consuming Fire". Loved almost every moment of this installment. Once again Scalzi had outdone himself with his characters, both major and minor. I cannot wait to see how the trilogy concludes!

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Confidence isn't about knowing you're right. Confidence is about knowing you can make it right.

— Rachela I, The Consuming Fire, book 2 of the Interdependency trilogy, by John Scalzi

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By now Marce was aware he was falling more than a little bit in love with Cardenia, not because she was the emperox (that part sort of scared the crap out of him, in point of fact) but because they were awkward in complementary ways.

The Consuming Fire, book 2 of the Interdependency trilogy, by John Scalzi

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