*shakes fist*

[kaigou]

OKAY MS FRANCIS
I AM READY FOR THE NEXT BOOK
LIKE NAOW!


No, seriously, people. I feel like I've been put through the wringer while riding the worst/best rollercoaster, and stabbed a few times while I was at it, about half the time from behind -- but in a good way! Really! In a nutshell, if you liked any of these books: the Temeraire series, any Hornblower books, or even Captains Courageous and its ilk, or I don't know, any truly baroque works like Majipoor Chronicles but riddled with a hefty dose of context-wealthy and intense sea-based jargon, OMG you will not regret reading will adore will DEVOUR The Cipher.

I'll be more coherent when I've gotten the stripper fumes out of my head and come to some kind of grips with the frustration that the book is OVER and the realization that now I must WAIT for the next Crosspointe novel, OMG I want it like TEN MINUTES AGO.

*beats head against wall*

Comments

[keilexandra]

Came by from buymeaclue's link to your (excellent) dear [not just urban fantasy] author posts. Having just read your review of Francis's PATH OF BLOOD, I wonder whether exactly the Crosspointe novels are fantasy of manners. I adore SWORDSPOINT, but the Temeraire series does nothing for me.

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

Fantasy of bad manners, perhaps!

I suppose if you liked Swordspoint, you might like Cipher, though Cipher is considerably more gritty and gut-deep on the emotional ripping. I mentioned Temeraire not because of the dragons, but because of the historical veneer that was more than just a veneer, and the skillful jargon-dropping. Francis does the same, but with a deft hand; it reminded me a lot of reading Captains Courageous, where the technical aspects show up on every page, because the entire 'world' (the ship) is infused with elements of ships, fishing, the sea, sailing, etc.

Okay, I think that's a jumbled paragraph, but I hope to get the reviews waiting done & posted in the next day or two. I've been building quite a backlog, and need to stop procrastinating. ;-)