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This week has been hard, and I feel like I'm only just slowly coming back to myself. And then the sun came out, and it was warm, and bright, and the first of my tomato fruit are starting to come through, and I drank iced coffee in the garden, and went walking with Matthias out to Grantchester in the cool of the morning, and chatted to my dad about lambs he and my stepmother have currently living indoors in their house, and basically felt as if I were one of my plants, unfurling in the sun.
And above all things, I just sank into a book and didn't emerge until I'd read the whole thing. I didn't realise how much I wanted to lose myself in really satisfying fiction until it had happened, and I'm so glad I did. The book in question is the third in S.A. Chakraborty's Daevabad trilogy, Empire of Gold, and it was just such a perfect conclusion to a really enjoyable series (and I don't just say that because the love triangle resolved in the way that I wanted).
I wrote a longer review over on my reviews blog, and as always am very happy to discuss the book either here or at the review post.
And I'm not done with this series. I immediately went over to Ao3, but it's slim pickings there, particularly for the characters and pairing I want to read about. However, S.A. Chakraborty, in an act of great generosity, has uploaded nearly 200 pages of missing scenes from the trilogy over at her website, so I'm now reading my way through those. If I can't get what I want from fan-authored fanfic, at least I can read fanfic written by the series' original author!
And above all things, I just sank into a book and didn't emerge until I'd read the whole thing. I didn't realise how much I wanted to lose myself in really satisfying fiction until it had happened, and I'm so glad I did. The book in question is the third in S.A. Chakraborty's Daevabad trilogy, Empire of Gold, and it was just such a perfect conclusion to a really enjoyable series (and I don't just say that because the love triangle resolved in the way that I wanted).
I wrote a longer review over on my reviews blog, and as always am very happy to discuss the book either here or at the review post.
And I'm not done with this series. I immediately went over to Ao3, but it's slim pickings there, particularly for the characters and pairing I want to read about. However, S.A. Chakraborty, in an act of great generosity, has uploaded nearly 200 pages of missing scenes from the trilogy over at her website, so I'm now reading my way through those. If I can't get what I want from fan-authored fanfic, at least I can read fanfic written by the series' original author!