The Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold. This book is the first set in her fantasy world of the Five Gods, and I read it after (almost all of) the Penric novellas, which were published later. Excellent, and the "curse" is plausibly interesting, and feels more believable than some family/hereditary curses in fiction (including myth). On ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rysmiel's recommendation, I am now reading the sequel, Paladin of Souls.
The Madness of Crowds, by Louise Penny. This is the most recent Inspector Gamache mystery. It's very good, but I'm not sure I would recommend reading it yet. It's very much about the pandemic, and some of people's worse reactions to it, including the line from "underlying conditions" to people advocating eugenics. (This clearly isn't the author's viewpoint, nor that of the ongoing sympathetic characters.) It's excellent, both as a mystery novel and an attempt to think and talk about current and recent events, which means it was somewhat difficult, emotionally. Content warnings also for references to past psychiatric abuse and CIA mind control experiments.
rysmiel's recommendation, I am now reading the sequel, Paladin of Souls.The Madness of Crowds, by Louise Penny. This is the most recent Inspector Gamache mystery. It's very good, but I'm not sure I would recommend reading it yet. It's very much about the pandemic, and some of people's worse reactions to it, including the line from "underlying conditions" to people advocating eugenics. (This clearly isn't the author's viewpoint, nor that of the ongoing sympathetic characters.) It's excellent, both as a mystery novel and an attempt to think and talk about current and recent events, which means it was somewhat difficult, emotionally. Content warnings also for references to past psychiatric abuse and CIA mind control experiments.
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