I will definitely give Leviathan a try! The lead sounds like she would seriously appeal to me as a YA character (and would have appealed to me as a kid also). The alternate-history sounds interesting -- I'm sort of glad it's WWI and not, say, 1880, since I tend to either love (Echo Bazaar) or despise (Temeraire) AUs set in time periods I know more about, depending if they're good. I imagine it's probably true for most people who have a fondness for certain historical periods. It's a lot easier to pull one over on people who're only vaguely familiar. I'm only vaguely familiar with WWI, so we're golden.
It's pretty frustrating and stressful to try and force your way through a book you can't bring yourself to like, yeah -- it's part of why I tend to disorganizedly read a bunch of books at once, in bits and pieces, and wind up with a lot unfinished! Unless something really grabs me. Right now I'm reading a Lovecraft-themed short story anthology kind of out of order; it's hit-and-miss, like most anthologies, but doing so out of order and in between reading other stuff is making it a lot easier to stomach the 'miss' aspects.
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Date: 2011-04-19 07:09 am (UTC)It's pretty frustrating and stressful to try and force your way through a book you can't bring yourself to like, yeah -- it's part of why I tend to disorganizedly read a bunch of books at once, in bits and pieces, and wind up with a lot unfinished! Unless something really grabs me. Right now I'm reading a Lovecraft-themed short story anthology kind of out of order; it's hit-and-miss, like most anthologies, but doing so out of order and in between reading other stuff is making it a lot easier to stomach the 'miss' aspects.