I didn’t know until a few days ago…I am not sure I care for Sophos much but hopefully Turner will suprise me

I love Howl but when it comes to him or Gen I will support Gen who has no magic but plenty of imagination.

You know there’s a fourth book that came out this year, or last year maybe? A Conspiracy of Kings. Sophos comes back!

I will confess to being disproportionately invested in Eugenides’s success in the YA fantasy showdown. But it’s come down to Howl vs. Eugenides and I can’t say I think much of Gen’s chances in that sort of a battle. :p

Mumsy, try King of Attolia, I vastly preferred it to the first two, and I think you would enjoy it more too.

I remember now. I tried it and got bored immediately ( you must admit, it has a slooooow start.) And now, even tho it is years later, when I read it again, I totally figured out the Big Plot Twist about a third of the way thru. So I cannot give this quite the ringing endorsement you did.

A lot of the books I end up loving have hard-to-explain premises, or premises that do not sound awesome when you just say them. State of Play, my new favorite BBC thing ever, is a political thriller! I hate political thrillers! If I had said “Oh State of Play, it’s a political thriller that is good,” would Robyn and Capt. Hammer have watched it with me? No! But instead of that I said “State of Play is wondrous, we will watch it! We’ll watch it, let’s watch it, hey guys, let’s watch it!” so we did and they loved it. As they inevitably must cause it’s swell. I often cannot tell from your level of enthusiasm how much you really feel a book has made your life better.