More Books: Reflecting (a little) on fantasy and the modern
I intended to buy some boots yesterday but some how walked out of the store with five books...The sale ends today and I'm currently fidgeting at home with a calculator.
Anyway, I finally bought and read Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr, ignoring my wariness of pretty covers since Twilight. I also quite enjoyed reading it :) though I wanted Beira to be more than a spiteful villain. It seems like a difficult thing to tread between modern day language and fantasy but I thought Wicked Lovely did a good job even though I found expressions like WTF (which only appeared once) clashed a little with the blend of modern and fantasy type language. The cover is still gorgeous to behold and I'm tempted to buy the sequels for that alone lol but I am still curious about the faerie courts.
In the borrowed pile:
Each image of magic was painted as I read, if I could draw properly, I would of been driven to fanart (seriously). This would look amazing as a Miyazaki film. I also lament that since I live in Australia, I need to order her books since they're currently not in stock. Anyway, her covers are also suitably gorgeous and here's the goodreads blurb:
The Prince of Ombria lies dying, and already his sinister great-aunt, Domina Pearl--called the Black Pearl--is seizing power. The Prince's heir is a child, a boy too young to oppose her, and the Prince's nephew is a powerless bastard, an artist preoccupied with sketching the decaying city. No one lives who may stop the Black Pearl's ascent to the throne, or so it seems. But beneath the streets of Ombria lies a second, shadow Ombria, a buried city inhabited not only by ghosts, but by a powerful, mysterious sorceress and her creation, a girl sculpted from wax. But the sorceress is a woman of uncertain allegiances, and her beautiful young assistant has become fascinated by the Prince's bastard nephew--and has caught the malevolent eye of the Black Pearl.