Anybody read the more recent Alistair Reynolds books?
I read them up to On The Steel Breeze and didn't finish that trilogy as I wasn't finding them that engaging.
I see there's another Prefect book and the Revenger series out since then. Any good? Or is he just doing it for the money now?
I gave up with the elephant books. Don't get me wrong, I like elephants and they've as much right as anything to be in space, they were just mostly dull and to be honest, he doesn't have the writing chops to write from the perspective of African characters. Or elephants. Write what you know, they say.*
I didn't mind
The Prefect (or whatever the second one was called, they for some unknown reasons faffed around with the titles) and the first
Revenger book (not read the second yet).
I confess I'm struggling with
House of Suns, seriously every chapter I have to go back and check which character's first-person perspective I'm in this time, and considering I can see what the ending will be, that will make it more annoying. It would have been far better if he'd picked the one character and run with it. Ironically, I was looking in the summer house for
Century Rain which I have read and I'm sure I enjoyed. I'm sure I saw it in there. I figure I must have read
House of Suns as I bought it, but that said, it lacked the usual signs of molestation by my grubby paws and evidently didn't make a crater in my brain.
*which is why I'm a female, undead librarian with a taste for fresh blood and weapons-grade sarcasm.