Okay, this is a really late comment, but I wanted to come back to your thoughts on Too Like the Lightning. This is what I thought after abandoning the sequel (pasted from my book post):
I read fifty pages of Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer. I'd read Too Like the Lightning some time ago, and been intrigued but ambivalent about it. But it's done the opposite of growing on me since. I still thought I should give the second volume a try, but I didn't get far. Everything is so charged with power games in a way I don't enjoy, and there are two rapes in the first fifty pages. Wait, those aren't supposed to be two of the surrenders in the title, are they?? Anyway, I didn't get any further.
So I think the books might not be for me either...
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on 13/3/18 10:20 pm (UTC)I read fifty pages of Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer. I'd read Too Like the Lightning some time ago, and been intrigued but ambivalent about it. But it's done the opposite of growing on me since. I still thought I should give the second volume a try, but I didn't get far. Everything is so charged with power games in a way I don't enjoy, and there are two rapes in the first fifty pages. Wait, those aren't supposed to be two of the surrenders in the title, are they?? Anyway, I didn't get any further.
So I think the books might not be for me either...