Ugh, that's still happening? (I saw your Twitter posts about it earlier on.) I'm so sorry. :(
Recs:
If you wanted to read Ancillary Justice and Ancillary Sword, you probably already have by now, but I am mentioning them just in case. (Protagonist is THE MOST SPACETOASTER OF ALL THE SPACETOASTERS. I love her so much.) The final book of the trilogy is coming out in October. Author, Ann Leckie, is active on GoodReads and Tumblr and Twitter, but does not go after people she disagrees with, or send her fans after them.
Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead. I'm linking to its GoodReads page so you can see the cover art: that's the protagonist. Set in a world where magic works like a mixture of law and finance. Protagonist is an associate in a necromancy firm. There is a lot of paperwork. There are sequels.
Courtney Milan, Trade Me. I'm not sure how much m/f mainstream romance you read. I don't read a lot, but I liked this one. They meet at university. She's a compsci major hoping to study medicine. He's the son of Not Steve Jobs, the CEO of Not Apple. She and her parents came to America from China as Falun Gong refugees. The best part of the book is not the romance but the other relationships - her relationship with her parents and her roommate, his relationship with his father and Not Apple; and the way living their lives in the spotlight has shaped his and his father's relationship, and how trauma and survivor guilt have shaped her parents' and her lives. She's really good at complex characters who are neither total saints nor total assholes. What I'm failing to get across here is that (while discussing serious issues in a respectful way) this is really funny and enjoyable.
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Recs:
If you wanted to read Ancillary Justice and Ancillary Sword, you probably already have by now, but I am mentioning them just in case. (Protagonist is THE MOST SPACETOASTER OF ALL THE SPACETOASTERS. I love her so much.) The final book of the trilogy is coming out in October. Author, Ann Leckie, is active on GoodReads and Tumblr and Twitter, but does not go after people she disagrees with, or send her fans after them.
Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead. I'm linking to its GoodReads page so you can see the cover art: that's the protagonist. Set in a world where magic works like a mixture of law and finance. Protagonist is an associate in a necromancy firm. There is a lot of paperwork. There are sequels.
Courtney Milan, Trade Me. I'm not sure how much m/f mainstream romance you read. I don't read a lot, but I liked this one. They meet at university. She's a compsci major hoping to study medicine. He's the son of Not Steve Jobs, the CEO of Not Apple. She and her parents came to America from China as Falun Gong refugees. The best part of the book is not the romance but the other relationships - her relationship with her parents and her roommate, his relationship with his father and Not Apple; and the way living their lives in the spotlight has shaped his and his father's relationship, and how trauma and survivor guilt have shaped her parents' and her lives. She's really good at complex characters who are neither total saints nor total assholes. What I'm failing to get across here is that (while discussing serious issues in a respectful way) this is really funny and enjoyable.