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Originally Posted by CRussel
Arrgghhh. How am I supposed to keep my buying down if you keep reminding me that there are new books I really want to read out?? I thought I had a bit before The King of Shanghai was out. Sigh. Well, maybe I'll get lucky and the BC Library download site will get it in before I give in to temptation.
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Originally Posted by ATDrake
 At least it'd be money well spent on a book you're sure to enjoy (I'll note that there's less of the particular sort of personally-oriented violence that IIRC both you and I disliked in #5-6)? And on supporting homegrown award-winning Canadian authors as well?
If you can hold out until the next coupon contest comes around, and Kobo keeps it at the current competitive-with-iTunes-and-Amazon new release discount price of $10-ish CAD, maybe you'll luck out on a good code and can get it for a lower cost if the BC Library doesn't oblige in time. |
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Originally Posted by CRussel
Well, so much for good intentions. I broke down and bought it with a 35% coupon and am now 1/3rd of the way into it, having put Campion aside for a moment. Of course, this was woefully wanton, since I already had the latest Rivers of London/Peter Grant book coming (and it arrived overnight.) But so what - I have to excellent books to read, and I think I'll do the Aaronovitch book, Foxglove Summer, as an audio book first.
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Finished and thoroughly enjoyed
The King of Shanghai, the latest Ava Lee book from Canadian author, Ian Hamilton. This book is not available in the US Amazon store yet, but is available in the Canadian one, and on Kobo. Another excellent book in this fun series, and actually a definite improvement in a couple of areas that were beginning to bother me. The level of direct, personal violence is down, and the interminable and oft-repeated product placements are way down as well. But even the earlier books were great fun, and this one is even better. This really is one of my top two new finds of 2014.
Next up, #11 in the Campion series,
Traitor's Purse. I'm about half way through (had to stop for the Ava Lee), and I'm enjoying it, but it's definitely not the action level of an Ava Lee book.