30 Days of Books: Day 10

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Day 10 – A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving

I’m gonna toss out 2 contenders here, both of which were recommended by my friend Mike.

The Warrior’s Apprentice, by Lois McMaster Bujold is a scifi story about a short, ugly supergenius with impulse control. I entered it all “oh, yeah, ok. Let me guess. He’s short and ugly/deformed but his giant brain and personality make up for all that and he gets the tall, sexy girl, right? WHATEVER.” And then it was actually GOOD, fast paced and compelling and one of the books (and series) that I return to frequently (although I prefer the Chalion books).

Ship of Magic (The Liveship Traders, Book 1), by Robin Hobb, is the second of 3 trilogies. I’d just finished the first Farseer Trilogy and wanted to see more of where that was going. Ships? Another world? UGH! Give me more of what I’d signed up for the first time! But I wound up really loving the second trilogy, and loving the new bits of world and politics Hobb showed us.