#iskari

[depraved-love]

Fandom list:

Anime:

Attack on Titan

Black Butler

Bungo Stray Dogs

Death Note

Demon Slayer

My Hero Academia

Naruto

Series:

Castlevania

Sherlock

The Witcher

Movies:

The Rise of the Guardians

Books:

Folk of the air

Iskari

Games:

The Arcana

Cookie Run

John Doe

Your Boyfriend

[felfiramoondesigns]

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[runicknight]

Another smooch!

[literary-illuminati]

Book Review 56 – Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone

I consider myself a pretty big fan of Gladstone’s, but until now I’d only ever touched his standalone works – I was previously a bit put off by the length of the Craft Sequence and so never actually tried it. So, thank you to the people who recommended I give it a try anyway! Despite being the first in a series, Three Parts Dead is a perfectly fine self-contained story and not relying on you reading the sequels to finish anything important. While it’s not the best thing of Gladstone’s I’ve read (Last Exit my beloved), it’s not the worst, either.

The book takes place in an industrial fantasy setting about a generation out from the apocalyptic, centuries-long war between the old gods and the ‘deathless kings’ – human sorcerers who had learned to master magic such that they could face them and tear the world apart in the crossfire. Tara, the hero, graduated from basically-Hogwarts entirely because there’s a binding preventing the school from doing bodily harm to its students – the next second they literally threw her out a window at 10,000 feet. The story follows her as she’s hired as a junior associate helping a world-famous lawyer/archmage as she’s hired by the church of Kas Everburning to investigate the sudden and mysterious death of their god. What follows are several hundred pages of convoluted scheming, legal proceedings, forensic accounting, and bloody magical duels and assassinations.

There are a few twists I genuinely didn’t see coming, the plot overall hangs together very well, and the pacing was just about perfect for the kind-of pulpy mystery/adventure story it was. Overall just a great time reading it.

That said, the setting’s probably the main thing to really sell people on this book. It’s just fun, and actually pretty damn original. The basic conceits are that a) magic is real, and b) so is capitalism. Kas Everburning is the beloved god and protector of the city, and also a highly leveraged legal entity loaning power across the globe whose death would catastrophically destabilize the global financial/metaphysical/political system. Mages can fly and raise zombies and enscroll people, but it’s all done in the idiom and with the vocabulary of contract law.

Beyond the basic conceit, Gladstone just clearly delights in layering weirdness on weirdness. Vitally, he does actually have a bit of restraint with the exposition – the book’s full of off-hand comments about different places and institutions that make you (me, anyway) incredibly curious about what the hell their deal is, but the actual explanations are restricted to what’s actually relevant to the plot and what the characters actually need to know. I still really want to know what’s up with King Clock or the Iskari or a half dozen other things, though. So, top-tier worldbuilding.

The themes are not exactly subtle, but I very appreciate that Gladstone lets them mostly remain as worldbuilding subtext and manages to make them feel like they emerge very naturally. I appreciate the slight restraint it takes to let the reader draw their own conclusions about the fact that the city’s police force is so empowered by strength and lack of need for doubt when on the clock that it’s literally addictive, or that one of the main antagonists is a brilliant older academic whose masterwork is a system where his star pupils (including a disproportionate number of attractive young women) are magically networked together to achieve incredible results he can take credit for while their lives and personalities are drained away to nothing. Being able to literalize the subtext a bit is half the fun of secondary wrld fantasy, after all.

Anyway, yes, very fun read. Four stars.

[hemerae-ramblings]

I was tagged by @humanbra (and as usual failed to answer in a decent amount of time)

Rules: Tag 10 people you’d like to get to know better!

Relationship status: single

Favorite colour: lilac

Song stuck in my head: Trio avec piano op 100 (schubert) or, if we're talking "song with words", Schön genug (Haller)

Dream trip: changes all the time, but right now, somewhere calm where I can basically be alone with my thoughts

Last googled: Uh...générateur de couvertures Martine 🤣

Anything I want now: a certain e-mail

Last song listened to: Reckoning song

Currently watching: L'Art du Crime

Currently reading: Iskari T2, and quite a lot of fanfics

Current obsession: L'Art du Crime (and i blame you @bourbon-ontherocks)

10 of your comfort shows: Doctor Who, One Day at a Time, HPI, OUAT, Vox Machina, She-ra, Heartland, Anne with an E, Lie to Me, Sherlock

tagging: @bourbon-ontherocks, @earanie, @pia-writes-things, @susanvstorm, @niimuue, @nike-sga

[hiddenschools]

“No,” she said, “this is not the dead city.”

“Where, then?”

“We are in my garden, in a city with a name we rarely whisper—a city that threads itself around the world of iron words the Iskari forged. We are not angels anymore. We do not take on shapes of righteous truth. But we build, though the Wreckers think our building a subversion.”

Ruin of Angels

[nymphadorathetemplar]

10 people you want to know better

tagged by : @wickfur @hiromiikunn

Relationship status:

never dated nor married

Favourite colours:

blues & oranges & black/white/grey-scale

Favourite foods:

Korean & Japanese cuisine, Asian or French style confections (i can't stand super cane sugary american sweets and high fructose corn syrup, i like light, creamy, and honey like sweets), potatoes

Song stuck in my head:

so many, i have an infinity radio playing in my head since the day i was born collecting more and more songs the longer i live. currently; a majority of the repeats are Vivid BAD SQUAD songs and/or covers

Last thing googled:

mousou dairinin

Time:

14:12

Dream trip:

no thanks. but if i had to travel somewhere i guess i like Japan, especially the classic Kyoto tourist attractions. or Edinburgh castle in the capital of Scotland.

Last thing read:

these questions. last story read; Project Sekai Colorful Stage (feat. Hatsune Miku) Scramble Fan Festival event episodes

Last book enjoyed reading:

Re-reading once again A Study in Scarlet (probably my fave Sherlock Holmes adventure) Last book enjoyed reading that wasn't a re-read; The Iskari Trilogy by Kristen Ciccarelli, read it all at once so it counts as one book for me

Favourite things to cook/bake:

idk probably pancakes, french toast, omurice

Favourite craft to do in free time:

whatever inspiration hits in the moment

Most niche dislike:

idk what's considered niche or not; having to rank my faves or pick a single "best/most favourite" i don't like having to quantify and decide precisely which makes me more happy. i only have broad categories of; 1) Fave! serotonin~ 2) Enjoyed would do/read/watch again 3) Fun but not doing/reading/watching that again 4) no thanks (for this same reason i don't rate shows/books on numerical scoring scale, such as MAL)

Opinion on circuses: never been because fuck animal cruelty i personally am creeped out by clown aesthetics and don't care to be around them (the clowns themselves are usually nice people tho) otherwise, the people who willingly perform, i think it's very impressive and cool to watch from clips of tricks i've seen online or how it's depicted in movies

Sense of direction?

almost always the designated navigator for my group when going out. like a video game map that starts out blank and fills in areas you explore, my mind makes an overview image as i move. and i mentally mark a few spots that i can return to like a homing pigeon. no matter how many turns i take i remember the compass direction of the mentally marked location.

Tagging: idk just claim i tagged you if you want to do it (seriously feel free to @ mention this blog if you do it, i like reading various answers but it's troublesome to think of others to tag and i'm lazy)

[astridofraftel]

reading challenge #11 (wrap-up)

Just finished: The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan

Currently reading: The House of Hades by Rick Riordan

Next on schedule: The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan

I just wanted to add for myself a little conclusion to the reading challenge I did last year! I went back to university, so I had a lot less time and motivation to read for the past six months. Because of that, I didn't achieve my goals in the end, but that's alright, I'm still very proud of all the dusting-off I did! My TBR pile is much more manageable now, so I will not be keeping up with this challenge in 2024 (I barely read anything not Percy Jackson-related since January, anyway).

So, if anyone is interested in random lists of books, in 2023 I checked off my program:

(FR) Le Prieuré de l'Oranger (The Priory of the Orange Tree) by Samantha Shannon

(FR) La voleuse de livres (The Book Thief) by Markus Zusak

(FR) L'École des femmes + Le Misanthrope by Molière

(EN) Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang

(EN) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

(EN) Daughter of Smoke and Bone + Days of Blood and Starlight + Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor

(FR) Le Chien des Baskerville (The Hound of the Baskervilles) by Arthur Conan Doyle

(FR) Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola

(FR) Le symbole perdu (The Lost Symbol) by Dan Brown

(FR) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

(FR) Il était une fois dans le Nord (Once Upon A Time In The North) by Philip Pullman

(FR) Le Roi Lear (King Lear) by William Shakespeare

(EN) The Conqueror’s Saga (And I Darken + Now I Rise + Bright We Burn) by Kiersten White

(FR) Le Flambeau + Témoin à charge by Agatha Christie

(FR) Boudicca by Jean-Laurent Del Socorro

(FR) Fantômes et kimonos by Kidō Okamoto

(FR) Dans l'ombre de Paris by Morgan of Glencoe

For a total of 23 books out of my goal of 30 that I had owned for years and never read!

Which means that my TBR pile now amounts to these 12 books (I acquired the last 4 last year so they were not included in my program):

(FR) L'Ultime Expérience by Bruce Benamran

(FR) Cinna by Corneille

(FR) Othello by Shakespeare

(EN) Three Dark Crowns (re-read) + One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake

(EN) Iskari, the Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli

(EN) The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen

(FR) Le complot des corbeaux by Ariel Holzl

(FR) La mythologie viking (North Mythology) by Neil Gaiman

(FR) La métamorphose by Franz Kafka

(EN) A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

(EN) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

In addition to all that, although disregarding anything fanfictitious, last year...

(and because I barely have any self-control when it comes to books)

...I also read these, which were not initially included in my program:

(EN) And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

(EN) Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

(FR) Le château de Hurle (Howl’s moving castle) by Diana Wynne Jones

(EN) The Princess Diaries vol. 1 by Meg Cabot

(EN) Strange the dreamer + Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

(EN) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

(EN) Divergent vol. 1 by Veronica Roth

(EN) Legendborn + Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn

(FR) Comme un vol d'étourneaux by Giorgio Parisi

(FR) Le meilleur des mondes (Brave New World) by Aldous Huxley

(EN) I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

(EN) Crooked House by Agatha Christie

(EN) Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee

(FR) La guerre des clans (Warriors) - cycle I vol. 1-6 by Erin Hunter

(EN) Tallstar’s Revenge by Erin Hunter

(FR) Le mystère de Listerdale by Agatha Christie

After all these gruesome lists, I can finally put to rest my 2023 reading challenge. Maybe one day I'll renew it, but I probably won't have the time nor the energy to schedule my readings so seriously for the next two years. It's been very fun though, also it had been the first year in quite some time that I read that much in French, and I think it did me good.

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[fantasybooktournament]

Send a Review!!

The first round of books was eliminated and I wanted some help talking about the book eliminated. There are so many amazing books that unfortunately were cut but still deserve their time to shine. I was hoping I could share people's reviews of the books eliminated, as I have not read them all.

I was hoping people would send asks with reviews or send me a review they had previously written to reblog. I'll post ones for the books I have read over the next week!

Not all reviews need to be glowing reviews, but if you didn't enjoy some of the books, also please feel free to send a review explaining why as well!

I'll use the tags of the eliminated works as well as "book reviews"

List of books under the cut!!

mercy thomas by patrica briggs

lightbringer by brent weeks

the golem and the jinni by helene wecker

prince of thorns by mark lawrence

chronicle of the unhewn throne by brian staveley

between earth and sky by rebecca roanhorse

criers war by nina varela

among others by jo walton

dead jinn universe by p. djeli clark

the raven tower by ann leckie

the grace of kings by ken liu

shades of milk and honey by mary roinette kowal

a land fit for heroes by richard k morgan

the stardust thief by chelsea abdullah

witchmark by cl polk

tailchasers song by tad williams

darkest powers by kelley armstrong

three dark crowns by kendare blake

the queen of tearling by erika johansen

mirror visitor by christelle dabos

we hunt the flame by hafsah faizal

the naming by allison crogan

iskari by kristen ciccarelli

kaikeyi by vaishnavi patel

a song of wraiths and ruin by roseanne a brown

book of tea by judy i lin

elatsoe by darcie little badger

blood heir by amelie wen zhao

labyrinth lost by zoraida cordova

girls made of snow and glass by melissa bashardoust

the reader by tracie chi

shadowshaper by daniel jose older

[antrauma]

I want to let kirei loose on iskari or whatever in full blown troll mode to traumatize him forever

[pinercolour]

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[asteriaworlds]

Dax: Ajude ele, por favor.

Asha: Eu não, te manca.

Dax: Eu te dou esse anel que era da mamãe.

Asha: Eu vou, eu vou, salvar o Torwin eu vou. Parará papá, parará papá. Eu vou, eu vou.

[caitsbooks]

“Once there was a girl who was drawn to wicked things. Things like forbidden, ancient stories.”  (The Last Namsara, Kristen Ciccarelli)

 (review, instagram)

[iumi-love]

"Solidão era um preço pequeno a pagar para permanecer viva."

"- Lealdade - resmungou Eris entre os dentes - é um luxo a que a maioria de nós não pode se dar.