dllh's reviews
696 reviews

I hadn't known L'Amour was a poet. These are generally story poems written in formal measure. I really liked many of them and enjoyed the book overall.

I enjoyed this one more than I expected. Maas turns a nice phrase, and I hadn't read about fairies of quite this sort. The main character was kind of annoying.

I read one L'Amour novel when I was young. Recently, I decided I wanted to read some Westerns. My library had only this collection of poems, which I really enjoyed, the older stuff more than the newer. These are largely story poems.

I didn't know what to expect but really enjoyed this one overall, despite finding the main character pretty annoying and oddly juvenile for someone in the role she's in. 

I really liked this one -- a delight among her other Dragonrider books that can sometimes feel a little beige. I love the characters Menolly and Piemur, and of course Robinton. There are lots of other neat or likable characters in this one too, whereas in a lot of the other books, even the "good" people are sometimes sort of assholes.

I enjoyed this one but wasn't entranced by it. I'd recommend to anyone interested in reading about immigration, refugees, or LGBTQIA+ characters.

A colleague recommended this, and I enjoyed it. It's a bit juvenile (some of the characters), but the overall idea of necromancer planets an all the pomp and ritual that the various houses/planets was pretty neat. I would consider reading the follow-up, though I'm not confident I will.

Really enjoyed this quick one.

Wow, what a book! It took me about a month of on/off reading to finish, but it never disappointed (I was just busy). He writes in several different modes and is equally deft with explanatory and lyrical prose. There's honestly not really a likable character in the book, but I related pretty hard to some of the flaws the main characters exhibited. Hill writes seriously, humorously, satirically, and as noted above explanatorily.

Hill is sometimes compared to Franzen or DFW, and I don't think either comparison is quite right. He writes less conventionally than Franzen but not so much so as Wallace. He writes a realism not dissimilar from that found in Franzen's family novels but not nearly so preciously or pompously as I feel  like Franzen does. I actually think a comparison to Meg Wolitzer (in particular The Interestings) and the lushness and detail with which she writes is more apt.

This one goes in the "may read again one day" pile.

I was a little skeptical of this one, fearing it might be more fanciful or anachronistic in ways that would bug me, but I enjoyed it quite a lot. It was fast-paced, had a memorable cast of characters, and was a little dark. I gulped it down.