Shades of Milk and Honey
Mar. 14th, 2019 08:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearAfter really enjoying the first in the Lady Astronaut series by Mary Robinette Kowal, I decided to see what else she has written and discovered The Glamourist Histories, also read by the author in the audio versions. I finished listening to the first one this morning - Shades of Milk and Honey - and am certain I have read it before! I've just skimmed through three years' worth of reviews from the year it came out onwards and can't find reference to it in my journal, though.
Anyway! The author's reading of the novel was marred by a ridiculous upper class English accent (she's American) which I found quite off-putting. It's a Regency set series, but with decorative magic, which is generally practised by women as one of their accomplishments. Overall, it was reasonably fun, though it's basically a series of plot points and characters pulled from Austen and jumbled together in a different order, just with a bit of magic thrown in. It also gets horribly melodramatic towards the end, in a way that had me rolling my eyes in the street.
Still, since I loved the Lady Astronaut so much, I'm going to give the second Glamourist book a chance, in case it improves dramatically over the first.
Anyway! The author's reading of the novel was marred by a ridiculous upper class English accent (she's American) which I found quite off-putting. It's a Regency set series, but with decorative magic, which is generally practised by women as one of their accomplishments. Overall, it was reasonably fun, though it's basically a series of plot points and characters pulled from Austen and jumbled together in a different order, just with a bit of magic thrown in. It also gets horribly melodramatic towards the end, in a way that had me rolling my eyes in the street.
Still, since I loved the Lady Astronaut so much, I'm going to give the second Glamourist book a chance, in case it improves dramatically over the first.
