Feed Your Interest

We’ve also got other books (delivery of 6 boxes!), but it’s Michelle Sagara’s Hidden City that I’m very excited about!

I read it in hardcover and it was absolutely freaking awesomely fantastic!
And now its in paperback and everybody else can get it and enjoy it too!!!

Come on in and pick up a copy when you can

This is what I’ve been distracted by recently. (Amongst other things.)
The Accord by Keith Brooke had a cover recommendation by Peter Hamilton (of Dreaming Void fame). Since I can’t remember ever having seen a cover recommendation by Hamilton before (I’m sure others can prove me to have a bad memory), it immediately caught my eye.

And the book is good.
It is an interesting idea. Well, it’s an old idea, with a different sort of a twist to it. The concept of immortality through digitization has been around for a while. Morgan’s Altered Carbon (yes, I know it is still lacking an image and a description. yes, I intend to get on to it. eventually…) was the most recent that I really loved.
Anyway, here, the Accord is Brooke’s style of immortality. It is a warehoused copy of a person. Upon the person’s death, his most recent warehoused copy is uploaded into the Accord. In effect, the Accord is where people go after they die… It is a man-made heaven, but accessible to all who can pay for a warehousing service, as opposed to those who have (or don’t have) a religious bent.

The Accord is interesting. It is named such as the scenery that the people in it see, the rules, the occupations, are all the result of the majority subconscious vote. So to a large degree, because people have pre-conceived perceptions of what their life is like, it will continue in a similar fashion in the Accord.
But at the same time, for those who have longed to be something different in live, the Accord will allow them to do so as long as the majority of the subconscious-es don’t mind…
And of course, since everybody has the perception that the afterlife is a place where people can’t die… There is immortality for all…

All that having been said, there is the actual story that I’ve yet to cover.
Basically, the creator of the Accord (if it can ever be traced to one person) is a gentleman by the name of Noah… He has indulged in an affair with the wife of an extremely possessive politician. The possessiveness leads to a murder, and Noah and Priscilla find themselves dead (alive?) in the Accord. And still being chased by the man who killed them, as his jealousy and anger knows no bounds.

The tale is told in a measured pace from multiple PoVs. Don’t expect Hamilton style action and speed. It’s not stupidly slow like Dune either. The pacing is really just right for Brooke’s style of story-writing.

The political wrangling, the techy discussions and explorations are well done, blend in with the rest of the tale and add to the overall atmosphere.

It is a book well worth reading!

Yes, yes. I know. I’m a slacker who never gets things done on time. All I have to say is… At least I eventually do!

Check out the list of March books!

Yes!

We did get our deliveries!
Gotten several gazillion over a fairly short period of time, to be honest. But our shelves are full again, and now with NEW books!

Click here to view our Feb catalogue (yes the March one is slightly over due).

Some of the more interesting stuff that have come in though…
Bone Crossed
The new Mercy Thompson book by the ever awesome Patricia Briggs.

Undone
It’s a new series by Rachel Caine that is set in her world of the Weather Wardens. If its anything like those, its going to be chock full of magic, adventure, sarcasm and pure unadulterated fun.

Accord
I’m reading this at the moment, and I am really REALLY enjoying how Keith Brook writes… I’ll say a bit more about it once I’ve actually finished.

Shadow Queen
This is another book set in the world of the Black Jewels and part of the reason why I’ve yet to finish reading Accord… Switching between two books is distracting…

There are some new stuff arriving in March, and we’ll get the new March books up Soon™.
In the mean time… Check out these Feb stuff!