ninja euthanasia is the way I'd want to go....

Book Review: The Shadowed Sun, by NK Jemison

I won a copy of SS in a competition on kateelliott 's livejournal for writing a review of The Killing Moon, the first novel in Jemison's Dreamblood duology. So It seemed fitting to review the second book as well.

It's no secret that I'm a big fan of Jemison's work, and Shadowed Sun has got to be my favourite of all her novels so far. If you have it at your library, go pick up a copy. If you have it at your local bookstore, get two. Seriously. There are ninja priests,* people, It don't get much better than this.

*There's also a neat analogue of Berber/Anasazi culture, some nifty debate upon the ethics of mercy killing. and a family that make the Lannisters look relatively well-adjusted.   These are also good reasons to read it, although not as good as the ninja priests.

If you consume, you must produce, even if it's just shit....

I got a AO3 comment on my Avengers fic Samsara from one of my favourite authors today!

:D :D :D :D

I have a weird relationship with feedback, though: if it's good, then it's meaningless because you don't learn anything, and if it's bad I feel like I've personally offended the critic by forcing them to read my purple prose. I cope with 'YOU R GAY HUR HUR' or 'get a life' mch better than I cope with crit from people who actually seem to have thought about it.

Speaking of which there's a useful link on constructive criticism over here at Cracked, beginning with "You are a bad writer but an amazing alchemist, since you seem to have figured out how to turn poo into paragraphs"

Now to have another crack at those original stories...