Flight into Fantasy

I finally got a chance to get a library card, and they’re getting A Feast for Crows on audio for me. This is very much w00t-worthy.

And because Tags: A Song of Ice and Fire, fangirl squee
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I started the second Legends anthology. Robin Hobb just got a lot higher up there on the list of authors I have to read immediately. I’m not sure where the novella she sent to the anthology fits in the grand scheme of things, but it’s brilliant. Interesting, creepy setting, engaging plot, characters who start out flawed but grow as the story progresses. Mmmm… All these are good things.

Wow. This book totally owned my soul. Even though I got spoiled pretty heavily before I’d finished.

It’s nice to see that this book was a little more lighthearted than some of the previous books in the series. And Professor Slughorn was a really, really cool character. Snape? I haven’t quite made up my mind. He still seems pretty ambiguous as a character.

I could really have done without the romance bits in the books. A lot of them felt a little superfluous, though the bits that involved Harry were sweet and cute.

Overall, an excellent read–for the other three of you out there who have not read these books.

So today I allotted myself the stories by Tad Williams (“The Burning Man”) and George R. R. Martin (“The Hedge Knight”) in the Legends anthology.

I have, therefore, been in fangirl heaven. (Except for the part where I was alone in the house and was reading one of the passages of Martin out loud because I liked the way it sounded and there was a knock, which turned out to be the mail carrier.)

I shouldn’t say it, but after reading the Williams and Martin stories, everyone else represented in this particular collection just come off as complete and total hacks.

Oh, and there was a brief moment after I finished “The Hedge Knight” when I found myself realizing that there was so much slash potential in that story. But even without that, Ser Duncan the Tall is my type of character. *pets*

The only Song of Ice and Fire fanfic I’ve ever found I discovered over at Adultfanfiction.net. And that appears to be a Sansa/Sandor Klegain story.

I’m a bit frightened to go look at that story, because that’s totally one of my secret ships.