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rushthatspeaksI've been familiar with Laurence Yep's rich and interesting realistic novels since I was very young, but for some reason I never came across any of his fantasy. In fact, I didn't know of its existence until I saw it mentioned on ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
50books_poc. At Wiscon, I scored an ARC of City of Fire, the first of his current fantasy series; I note that the book came out in early August, and I recommend it highly. It made me hunt down Dragon of the Lost Sea.
I enjoyed it. I'd have fallen head over heels for it at ten. There's a dragon princess, who is very prickly; there's a human boy, who is just as stubborn back. There's an ocean compressed into a little blue pebble. There's Monkey, who is just as Monkey usually is. There's an awareness that villainy is never one-dimensional.
City of Fire, which features equally interesting characters and worldbuilding so conceptually fascinating to me that I wouldn't have cared if there hadn't been any characters, is more the sort of book I read nowadays, but I read Dragon of the Lost Sea remembering the ten-year-old I was, and I will read the others in the series.
Assuming I can ever find them. I don't know what it is with the library systems I've run into about these. Kind of odd.
50books_poc. At Wiscon, I scored an ARC of City of Fire, the first of his current fantasy series; I note that the book came out in early August, and I recommend it highly. It made me hunt down Dragon of the Lost Sea.I enjoyed it. I'd have fallen head over heels for it at ten. There's a dragon princess, who is very prickly; there's a human boy, who is just as stubborn back. There's an ocean compressed into a little blue pebble. There's Monkey, who is just as Monkey usually is. There's an awareness that villainy is never one-dimensional.
City of Fire, which features equally interesting characters and worldbuilding so conceptually fascinating to me that I wouldn't have cared if there hadn't been any characters, is more the sort of book I read nowadays, but I read Dragon of the Lost Sea remembering the ten-year-old I was, and I will read the others in the series.
Assuming I can ever find them. I don't know what it is with the library systems I've run into about these. Kind of odd.
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Date: 2010-09-19 05:14 pm (UTC)