Mmm.. you know you have found a good book when you start reading it and look up hours later, then reality begins slowly and sheepishly stumbling in after you. Then you are faced with the joy of figuring out where you are, why you are there, and what day it is. Once all those important details fall together, you find yourself not overly impressed by the current reality and just want to rush back into the story, the only thing keeping you from doing that is knowing that once it is used up you will never be able to un-read it, never able to go through it with a truly virgin eye again.
I am loving C.E. Murphy's 'Heart of Stone' so far (not surprisingly since I've loved all of the other books). It i not quite the sexyness and spirituality of the Kushiel series (and I am beginning to doubt anything else will ever match that), or the deep mythology of Gaiman (but really, what is?), but it can hold its own and Murphy has her own very distinct flavor. Yum!
(As an aside, I really can spell, and I do know how many letters there are in most words. My keyboard does not however,and if I type too fast it often decides that it is not worth the effort of trying to keep up, or even to place the letters in the correct order they were meant to come in)
I am loving C.E. Murphy's 'Heart of Stone' so far (not surprisingly since I've loved all of the other books). It i not quite the sexyness and spirituality of the Kushiel series (and I am beginning to doubt anything else will ever match that), or the deep mythology of Gaiman (but really, what is?), but it can hold its own and Murphy has her own very distinct flavor. Yum!
(As an aside, I really can spell, and I do know how many letters there are in most words. My keyboard does not however,and if I type too fast it often decides that it is not worth the effort of trying to keep up, or even to place the letters in the correct order they were meant to come in)