I'm rather behind on Anne Bishop books, alas. I think I read the Invisible Ring and Tangled Webs, but they didn't have nearly the impact on me that the original trilogy did. I need to catch up, really, because there are some rather important things that she never actually describes in detail in the first trilogy (like Coaches, for instance. What exactly do they look like, and how do they work?).
It's fun re-imagining the Saiunkoku characters in a new setting. With this one there's a great deal that has to change, simply because the structure of the society in question is so different. One also has to battle the temptation to give everyone really dark jewels, though I can't claim to have succeeded particularly well there.
I have yet to go down to the catacombs . . . shall have to sometime this summer. It's harder to appreciate a place when you're in it for a goodly length of time, I find.
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It's fun re-imagining the Saiunkoku characters in a new setting. With this one there's a great deal that has to change, simply because the structure of the society in question is so different. One also has to battle the temptation to give everyone really dark jewels, though I can't claim to have succeeded particularly well there.
I have yet to go down to the catacombs . . . shall have to sometime this summer. It's harder to appreciate a place when you're in it for a goodly length of time, I find.