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The Secret History of Moscow
Dec. 4th, 2019 09:04 pm Man, it has been a while since I updated. I went to Denmark for a week, had a great Thanksgiving and actually did a bunch of stuff worth sharing, but naw. Nothing written. I'd say I don't know why I'm like this, but, yeah, I totally do. Whatever. On to the book I finally finished!
Wednesday Reading
The Secret History of Moscow by Ekaterina Sedia. It's Moscow in the 1990s and people are getting turned into birds. The sister of one of the victims teams up with a cop and a street artist to get to the bottom of the mystery. Along the way, they meet various mythological figures and the forgotten people of Russia's past.
As a historian and a fan of urban fantasy, this book should have been right up my alley. Instead, it was a bit of a slog that took me weeks to get through. It's 300 pages. It should not have taken me weeks. I think the problem was that the progress of the plot was just so slow. Every time the MCs met one of the mythological or historical figures, there was a break from the plot where the person shared their backstory. And yeah, those stories were interesting, but it was like the author kept hitting the breaks every other chapter. Maybe I would have appreciated it more if I had more of a background in Russian history and mythology. Ah, well.
Wednesday Reading
The Secret History of Moscow by Ekaterina Sedia. It's Moscow in the 1990s and people are getting turned into birds. The sister of one of the victims teams up with a cop and a street artist to get to the bottom of the mystery. Along the way, they meet various mythological figures and the forgotten people of Russia's past.
As a historian and a fan of urban fantasy, this book should have been right up my alley. Instead, it was a bit of a slog that took me weeks to get through. It's 300 pages. It should not have taken me weeks. I think the problem was that the progress of the plot was just so slow. Every time the MCs met one of the mythological or historical figures, there was a break from the plot where the person shared their backstory. And yeah, those stories were interesting, but it was like the author kept hitting the breaks every other chapter. Maybe I would have appreciated it more if I had more of a background in Russian history and mythology. Ah, well.
