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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Recently started the Once and Future Witches; I’m 70 pp in, it’s an easy read with some pretty prose yet also very tropey and trauma-laden; it might be a DNF (which is rare for me), but it is the bookclub select and I’m guessing everyone else will have loved it—so may see it through so I can have full perspective for the discussion.

I get that the tropes are partly related to fairy tale archetypal journeys, but some used here are just heavy-handed. And the book also has a pet peeve of mine: when authors go through the trouble of embedding a metaphor or allusion, but then they (or their editor) don’t trust you to connect the dots, so they go ahead and tell you what they meant just to be sure. I am curious about some of the new characters, though, and also don’t want to be cranky about the book so may try to get to part 2 (~20% in).[/quote]

I read one of Alix Harrow's books at the end of last year and was surprised at how fresh her voice was--and the book was well-plotted and imaginative. But, ITA, that she could use an editor to pare back the "over-writing" & statements of the obvious and prevent her 
(apparent) tendency to descend into overly precious storytelling.

I know that "cozy fantasy" is having its moment these days, but basically feel like she could be [i]better [/i]than that![/quote]

I appreciate your POV-very validating! I decided “Once and Future Witches” is a DNF for me…

I just started “On the Calculation of Volume I” and am completely drawn in. My library doesn’t have part II yet, so I may be buying it soon!

And I’ve also picked up “Dark Renaissance,” which I’m really enjoying (reading Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies plus Stoned last year has made it extra fun to jump into Elizabethan England at this point in my life). [/quote]

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