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I finished The Eagle of the Ninth, The Sky is Falling, and Looking at the Moon (latter two by Kit Pearson) today.
I liked all three--well, I've read the Pearson ones before, when I was a kid, and um this time The Sky is Falling made me cry--twice. It didn't do that before! (I never used to cry at books, and I want to go back to that.) I liked the Eagle of the Ninth but it was a bit weird reading it, because I've read so much about the fandom around it and the opinions of people shipping it and I have never aggressively not-shipped anything. Not Marcus/Esca, not Marcus/Cottia, just nothing. I am really disappointed that the next book in the 'series' is actually not about Marcus and Escus and Cottia and Uncle Aquila :(
( Spoilers )
The next two novels are the first two books in a series by Kit Pearson, about evacuated children from England sent to Canada. I read them years ago and I do remember what happens in the third book which is probably partly why I cried. ( BIG SPOILERS ). They do stand up very well though. I sympathized with Norah just as much as I did then. I am not sure I can take the last book.
One reason I am reading so much is that it's a holiday (fireworks yesterday too! So great) but it's mostly because it's so hot and humid. See, I don't have air conditioning at my place, and my computer becomes a furnace when it's running. But my e-reader doesn't! So I spend time lying in front of the fan reading, because I can't take the heat and humidity.
I liked all three--well, I've read the Pearson ones before, when I was a kid, and um this time The Sky is Falling made me cry--twice. It didn't do that before! (I never used to cry at books, and I want to go back to that.) I liked the Eagle of the Ninth but it was a bit weird reading it, because I've read so much about the fandom around it and the opinions of people shipping it and I have never aggressively not-shipped anything. Not Marcus/Esca, not Marcus/Cottia, just nothing. I am really disappointed that the next book in the 'series' is actually not about Marcus and Escus and Cottia and Uncle Aquila :(
( Spoilers )
The next two novels are the first two books in a series by Kit Pearson, about evacuated children from England sent to Canada. I read them years ago and I do remember what happens in the third book which is probably partly why I cried. ( BIG SPOILERS ). They do stand up very well though. I sympathized with Norah just as much as I did then. I am not sure I can take the last book.
One reason I am reading so much is that it's a holiday (fireworks yesterday too! So great) but it's mostly because it's so hot and humid. See, I don't have air conditioning at my place, and my computer becomes a furnace when it's running. But my e-reader doesn't! So I spend time lying in front of the fan reading, because I can't take the heat and humidity.
