I'm still working my way through Kaleidoscope - it's finally on my Kobo, yay! - and I've also been working on Freedom Climbers, and have now finished everything but the Appendices and have marked the book as finished.
The rest of the week has been dystopias and sci-fi.
On Thursday I finished reading Frozen, book 1 in the "Heart of Dread" series by Melissa de la Cruz and Michael Johnson. It worked so well, right up until the end, when it was high action, but conceptually a little disappointing. I adored the drip-feed of world building, so very slow burn, just little bits and pieces that slowly put the world together. But in all that world building, the drakon just wasn't there. Sure the voice was there, but the idea seemed to me to come out of nowhere. And so the last few chapters just didn't work the way I wanted them to. I wanted to believe the buildup, and I just couldn't. It was good, but I had such high expectations that had been built up through the book.
I loved Sean Williams' story in Kaleidoscope - "The Legend Trap" - and I was thrilled to find out that it was a short story from a universe that he's written in a LOT. So I've started the first of Williams' "Twinmaker" series,
Jump. I seriously love the concept of d-mat and what Williams seems to be doing with it - at least in "The Legend Trap", and I assume it will be just as awesome in
Jump.
I've also finally begun to read Gemma Malley's
The Killables, although it almost broke me in the first few pages with the religious fundamentalist imagery. This book may kill me. I'm just warning you.
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