Review: Provenance

Provenance by Ann Leckie
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Not quite as enthralling as Leckie's earlier stuff, but solid big-universe SF set in a different corner of the same setting. An interesting culture or two well-sketched without overwhelming the story. Enough loose ends that I assume we'll come back to the story, if not necessarily all of the characters.

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Review: The Testament of Loki

The Testament of Loki by Joanne M. Harris
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Gah! I HATE publishers who refuse to tell you anywhere on a book that it is part of a series!

The good news is, this book works reasonably well as a stand-alone. It's a little young-adulty, in its' obsession with teenagers for all of the characters. And a little disturbing, in the rapey way that Loki's possession of Jumps is described. But it is genuinely well-written, and Loki is of course a great character whom the author imbues with a marvelous voice. Loki's master plan at the end may not bear too much scrutiny (view spoiler)[He's trying to keep Odin from getting the Oracle, so he brings them together? He's trying to keep the Oracle asleep so he goes to it and stomps around until it wakes up? It is lost in dream, so his plan for dealing with it is to... lose it in dream some more? (hide spoiler)] but I took that to be Loki's half-arsed seat-of-the-pants idea of planning, more than anything else.

Enjoyed the read.

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