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finished reading Les Oiseaux du temps by Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar: Les Oiseaux du temps (Paperback, français language, 2021, Mu) 3 stars

Bleu et Rouge, deux combattants ennemis d'une étrange guerre temporelle, s'engagent dans une correspondance interdite, …

Ce roman partiellement épistolaire est difficile à classer. Il y a un côté eau de rose indéniable. Poétique et sensuel, ce roman nous entraîne au travers du multivers et du temps, que deux entités manipulent à l’envi en envoyant des agentes pour tuer, orienter, influer. Les êtres humains y sont des objets fragiles et des jouets d’un destin décidé par des abstractions. J’y ai goûté chaque mot. #mastolivre #vendredilecture #SF #fantasy

commented on The Black Gryphon (Valdemar: Mage Wars #1) by Mercedes Lackey (Mage Wars (1))

Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon: The Black Gryphon (Valdemar: Mage Wars #1) (Paperback, 1995, DAW) 4 stars

It is an age when Valdemar is yet unfounded, its organization of Heralds yet unformed, …

Getting awkward at times.

The book starts as if you started reading 1/4 in. There are some concepts explained well enough. But to this point, I am unsure if there is another species besides human and gryphon. Or if something is just an ethnicity of human? I'm confused. The prose is pretty thick.

Also some awkward sexual situations. And a gryphon breeding program. Which, like, the gryphons are sentient and vocal. So... I'm hoping that is revealed as a bad thing.

Still good gryphon stuff otherwise, and decent worlds building. I guess I'm at a net neutral right now. #Books #Bookstodon #Fantasy

started reading Mattimeo by Brian Jacques (Redwall (3))

Brian Jacques: Mattimeo (Hardcover, 1989, Hutchinson) 4 stars

Slagar the fox hated Redwall Abbey - its peaceable creatures, its fearless mouse warrior Matthias. …

Listening on Everand. And It's Another Full Cast Performance!

Very ready for more #Redwall stories. Always fun yet serious. And this time, it's a generation after the first. So some of my fav chars are back (Yay, Constance the badger). Tho I am going to have to catch up on things. It's been a while since this era of Mossflower. #Fantasy #books @bookstodon@a.gup.pe

commented on Die DNA der Stadt by Inga Mueller-Haagen

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Inga Mueller-Haagen: Die DNA der Stadt (German language, 2014, Verlag Hermann Schmidt)

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One of my long-running aspirations is to design a (#dnd -style) #fantasy #ttrpg setting that features truly vast cities, of a size comparable to modern-day major metropolitan areas.

As a result, I've accumulated a number of books that try to examine the structure and layout of cities - what makes a modern city a city, instead of just focusing on any single town. This particular book offers layout views of streets and buildings of major cities - without labeling them - so that readers can get a feel for their structure instead of getting bogged down in the details.