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I sort of don't have all that much to say about Team Human, not because I didn't like it -- I did! -- but because it basically does what it says on the label, or at least on the subtext to the label.
For those unfamiliar, the label says: friends don't let friends date vampires!
The subtext to the label (which is a lot more wordy in translation) says: this is a response to Twilight and other recent vampire-ish teen romance, and we would like to talk about the importance of friendship, and teenaged girls making their own decisions about their own lives, and also, yes, the fact that the vampires-in-love-with-high-schoolers trope is kind of ridiculous, bless their little gothic hearts.
As someone who has often read novels with romances in that made me think "NO NO HONEY LET ME RUN AN INTERVENTION FOR YOU," I approve of all this! I enjoyed the book, I enjoyed the way it poked fun at the tropes without being mean about it. I don't have a ton more to say about it; you know, it came, and it did its thing, and I nodded along, and then it left, and that was pretty much that.
(Although I do feel the need to point out that Merc did it first, all the way back in -- gosh, was it really 2009? -- in her unfinished masterpiece Vamptervention. Although hers went in a very different direction. TAKE IT LIKE A MANPIRE!)
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For those unfamiliar, the label says: friends don't let friends date vampires!
The subtext to the label (which is a lot more wordy in translation) says: this is a response to Twilight and other recent vampire-ish teen romance, and we would like to talk about the importance of friendship, and teenaged girls making their own decisions about their own lives, and also, yes, the fact that the vampires-in-love-with-high-schoolers trope is kind of ridiculous, bless their little gothic hearts.
As someone who has often read novels with romances in that made me think "NO NO HONEY LET ME RUN AN INTERVENTION FOR YOU," I approve of all this! I enjoyed the book, I enjoyed the way it poked fun at the tropes without being mean about it. I don't have a ton more to say about it; you know, it came, and it did its thing, and I nodded along, and then it left, and that was pretty much that.
(Although I do feel the need to point out that Merc did it first, all the way back in -- gosh, was it really 2009? -- in her unfinished masterpiece Vamptervention. Although hers went in a very different direction. TAKE IT LIKE A MANPIRE!)
This entry is cross-posted at Livejournal from http://skygiants.dreamwidth.org/308535.html. Please feel free to comment here or there! There are currently
comments on Dreamwidth.