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FeminineFantastique
Posted 2014-03-31 6:49 PM (#6795 - in reply to #6790)
Subject: Re: Favorite book(s) read so far for RYO		Quote Reply



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*facepalm* For my OP, I meant The Red Tree by Caitlin Kiernan, not The Dark Tree.

I'm having trouble even coming up with a second favorite. I finished it on the road, and immediately made the hubby pull over into a McDonald's with WiFi so I could buy The Drowning Girl, only to read about a fifth of it and get irrationally mad at it for having the effrontery to not be the book I had just finished reading. So I had to put it aside in favor of other books for now.

However, the book I'm about halfway through right now I'd nominate as favorite for creativity and boldness in genre-bending. Aliette de Bodard's Servant of the Underworld is part mystery, part fantasy, part historical fiction. I'd say that it adheres pretty closely to the conventions of the mystery genre while very cleverly providing a fantasy framework (i.e. crimes are committed with and solved by magic), all in a setting that's really refreshing -- the Aztec Empire.

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