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The other consequence of wacky traveling adventures involving lots of time on planes and buses and so on: I am way behind on booklogging. Here goes some of the way towards catching up!
L.A. Meyer' In the Belly of the Bloodhound: I meant to do a big write-up-and-rec post of this whole series, but once again time foils me, so I'll save it for when I get my hands on the next book, which will hopefully be ASAP. In any case, this is the book I was talking about (yes, I am that behind!) and it is so far tied with the second book for my favorite in the series to date! I love when Jacky gets to hang out and bond with other girls, and this book especially takes a trope I love and see all too rarely (rarely enough that I don't even know if it counts as a trope), which is Group Of Apparently Helpless Young Girls Gets Out Of Trouble By Being Ridiculously Awesome. As one might guess from my previous reference post, I especially loved the dynamic between Jacky, Our Heroine, and Clarissa Worthington-Howe, who in the second book was That Bitchy Girl From High School and in this book - well, is still That Bitchy Girl From High School, and demonstrates exactly how much you want That Bitchy Girl on your side when bad things start going down. I adore that Clarissa never softens or un-bitchifies or loses her bad traits (of which she has several) and that Jacky and Clarissa learn to respect each other without necessarily liking each other; I also love the lesbian subtext!
Which is not to say the book does not have issues - of which the main one is the plot itself. Since it's on all the book covers, I don't think it's a spoiler to say that there's Kidnapping And White Slavery, which is always awkward to focus on when, um, slavery in the other direction was a much bigger problem. The book does point this out more than once, but there are still aspects of the plot that make me pretty uncomfortable - but the characters!
- and now I have to go, so I guess this is not going to be as much of an Epic Catch-Up Post as I planned. Uh. MORE TO COME LATER.
L.A. Meyer' In the Belly of the Bloodhound: I meant to do a big write-up-and-rec post of this whole series, but once again time foils me, so I'll save it for when I get my hands on the next book, which will hopefully be ASAP. In any case, this is the book I was talking about (yes, I am that behind!) and it is so far tied with the second book for my favorite in the series to date! I love when Jacky gets to hang out and bond with other girls, and this book especially takes a trope I love and see all too rarely (rarely enough that I don't even know if it counts as a trope), which is Group Of Apparently Helpless Young Girls Gets Out Of Trouble By Being Ridiculously Awesome. As one might guess from my previous reference post, I especially loved the dynamic between Jacky, Our Heroine, and Clarissa Worthington-Howe, who in the second book was That Bitchy Girl From High School and in this book - well, is still That Bitchy Girl From High School, and demonstrates exactly how much you want That Bitchy Girl on your side when bad things start going down. I adore that Clarissa never softens or un-bitchifies or loses her bad traits (of which she has several) and that Jacky and Clarissa learn to respect each other without necessarily liking each other; I also love the lesbian subtext!
Which is not to say the book does not have issues - of which the main one is the plot itself. Since it's on all the book covers, I don't think it's a spoiler to say that there's Kidnapping And White Slavery, which is always awkward to focus on when, um, slavery in the other direction was a much bigger problem. The book does point this out more than once, but there are still aspects of the plot that make me pretty uncomfortable - but the characters!
- and now I have to go, so I guess this is not going to be as much of an Epic Catch-Up Post as I planned. Uh. MORE TO COME LATER.