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Since the middle of December:
Bookshops and Bonedust, by Travis Baldree: This is a prequel, I guess, to Legends and Lattes. I liked it, and there was something pleasantly recursive about getting caught up in a book that is significantly about other people being caught up in books (people who think of reading as something that other people do). (If you didn't like the first book, you probably won't like this one either.)
Paladin's Faith, by T. Kingfisher. This is billed as "book four of the saint of steel," with an interesting plot about industrial espionage/sabotage along with the demon-hunting and (how) will these two characters wind up together. I liked it, and think it's at least as good as the previous volumes in the series. There's room for three more books, at one per paladin. I'd like a story that's more about the Temple of the White Rat, Zale and Bishop Beartongue, and/or the gnoles, but I'm not sure a romance structure would work for those.
Liberty's Daughter, by Naomi Kritzer: Beck is a teenager living with her father on a seastead, i.e., a group of offshore platforms and converted ships that has somehow managed not to be part of any country. The story starts with some odd discoveries Beck makes while finding random-seeming things someone wants enough to pay or trade for, like size nine black sandals, and the stakes get higher as the story goes on. The people who run the seastead call themselves libertarians, but Beck's father gives arbitrary-seeming orders and expects her to obey, and these are the sort of libertarians who are happy to have most of the scutwork done by indentured servants. [I think this is a fix-up of a series of stories that were originally published separately.]
Bookshops and Bonedust, by Travis Baldree: This is a prequel, I guess, to Legends and Lattes. I liked it, and there was something pleasantly recursive about getting caught up in a book that is significantly about other people being caught up in books (people who think of reading as something that other people do). (If you didn't like the first book, you probably won't like this one either.)
Paladin's Faith, by T. Kingfisher. This is billed as "book four of the saint of steel," with an interesting plot about industrial espionage/sabotage along with the demon-hunting and (how) will these two characters wind up together. I liked it, and think it's at least as good as the previous volumes in the series. There's room for three more books, at one per paladin. I'd like a story that's more about the Temple of the White Rat, Zale and Bishop Beartongue, and/or the gnoles, but I'm not sure a romance structure would work for those.
Liberty's Daughter, by Naomi Kritzer: Beck is a teenager living with her father on a seastead, i.e., a group of offshore platforms and converted ships that has somehow managed not to be part of any country. The story starts with some odd discoveries Beck makes while finding random-seeming things someone wants enough to pay or trade for, like size nine black sandals, and the stakes get higher as the story goes on. The people who run the seastead call themselves libertarians, but Beck's father gives arbitrary-seeming orders and expects her to obey, and these are the sort of libertarians who are happy to have most of the scutwork done by indentured servants. [I think this is a fix-up of a series of stories that were originally published separately.]