Good luck, goldie. I had to look those up. They sound involved, like lots of fantasy novels, but with some compelling protagonist. I don't know that I'd enjoy them, given chris's descriptions.
I am reading another futuristic novel, "Never Let Me Go," by Kazuo Ishiguro. About clones raised to donate their organs. Told from the perspective of one, while still in the exclusive institution where they are raised and cared for until adulthood. The novel is subtle in that you don't really grasp what's going on for a while (and given I haven't finished it, I can't really provide spoilers of any substance). And then, it's hard to predict where it's going, but probably not to a good place.
I read his "Remains of the Day," which you might know from the film with Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, many years ago, and I can't say that it's a feel good novel, but it does offer keen insights into people's emotions and the structures -- both internal and external -- that prevent them from achieving happiness. He lives in the UK, having emigrated from Japan when he was 5. I guess he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2017.
