Beyond Reality discussion

Let us know here if you're reading or planning on reading The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez. No spoilers please!

This book just arrived!

I’m only a few pages in but it does feel like a story I’ll really enjoy.

I've read it a couple of years ago and it easily topped my favourite list. This book is so much of everything, and all of it excellent.

I'm on a library waitlist, but it's a long one so I'm not sure when I'll get my hands on it!

I waited for about 2 months on my library waitlist for this only to DNF it about 25% in. Like, I get what Jimenez is trying to do with the whole frame story structure (he's not the first), but it just felt tedious and pretentious. I'm generally a patient reader but I've had to learn to be less patient with fantasy books that feel like a chore for me. Happy reading to you all who feel differently about this one.

Like a.g.e. I read this a couple years ago and loved it. I listened to it, but after a few comments from fellow readers I also got the ebook and could work out what it was that made listening so difficult. Yes, it was the structure (mostly the asides), but after I figured that out, got used to it, I could hear how the narrator altered his voice subtly and I could hear the difference.

Got it from the library!

My library loan FINALLY came through! I started it yesterday.