Shipping meme, day 2

[flo_nelja]

2. Your newest ship

Last ship that interested me is Prince/Sorcerer in the fairy tale The prince with the seven golden cows, that I told here.

But I don't think I will ever write fic, or find any, so maybe the ships I'm shipping a bit harder. Let's compare the dates

* Wanda/Agatha Harkness in Wandavision. Because damn the manipulation/mind manipulation is hot. When did I watch it? Not long after the last episode (where I started really shipping), so in March.

* Ango/Ryou in 7 Seeds. I really love Ryou's unhealthy obsession, ha ha (ahipping the traumatized complicated assholes together). I have started the manga a looong time ago, even seeing them interact as kids, but I read the last 25 volumes only in April-May, and it's then I started shipping them, so...

* Gideon/Harrow in Gideon the Ninth. I read the first book in February but you can argue that I started really shipping them only in the second book, when we have Harrow' PoV! That I read in June! So yeah, it's this one!

Comments

[reinadefuego]

Ooh, what did you think of Gideon the Ninth? I've been contemplating reading it, but I've seen mixed reviews about the book.

[flo_nelja]

I loved it. I love the worldbuilding (very progressives, almost no explanations, you need to put the pieces back in your head), especially the different forms of necromancy, and the way it mixes necromancy and sf. Also the characters, including the all f/f central love polygon but also the others on the side.
The writing style was a bit weird to me in the beginning, mixing very modern expressions and very old ones, but when you see it's sf in 10000 years and they are very invested in the past (and mixing it into a big "past" label) it works.
My main objection: because of the choice of the author to not explain things, it feels like both books start very slow, not because nothing happen, but because among things that happen there are too few things we fully understand, stakes and all. But when the payoff arrives, it's strong.
First volume is murder mystery, second one is more cosmic, I can't wait to see where the third goes.

What have you seen in the mixed reviews? Maybe there's a big problem that I didn't felt as a problem.