Lost Empress: A Novel | 
pickDe la Pava is a special, special writer. He‘s so ambitious with it, that it feels very different from reading most contemporary fiction. I mean it kind of has an old Russian lit sensibility to it.
He‘s a wordsmith and, while maybe not always the best at getting big emotions out of me, his IDEAS are phenomenally interesting.
It‘s also laugh out loud funny. Like I really was cracking up throughout.
I thought I‘d give another Sergio De La Pava novel a whirl, since I liked the other one I read, A Naked Singularity, so well.
This one is pretty dang good. It‘s challenging though; a lot of the paragraphs I have to read twice or thrice to really get what he‘s saying. For this reason it can actually get kind of tiresome. I do enjoy the parts when he makes things more clear because I can relax a little.
pickJust started this and already I‘m reveling in the insane hilarity of style and content. While her father leaves her brother a NFL team in his will, Nina gets the Paterson Pork, a team in the unknown Indoor Football League. She‘s out for revenge, and there‘s a genius criminal plotting his way out of Ryker‘s and I can see there‘s going to be a collision;
trenchant wit and commentary on modern culture; and definitely epic! What style! Loving it😎
pickI just finished this and I‘m a bit speechless. I don‘t care for football so don‘t let its inclusion in this novel dissuade you from trying it. Indoor football league takes on the nfl/an art heist drive the plot, but there is so much more. If you like heady books you will absolutely dig this. Sergio de la pava is a wizard. 🧙♂️
#TBRtemptation post 6! Coming in 2018 Edition! Scheduled for a May release. The blurb does the title more justice than I could do, lol. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎
