I've been really enjoying Jennifer Rardin's Jaz Parks series, which is also in this vein. Her vampires are often sexy, but also tend to be creepy or funny or insecure or rude or kind or damaged. Almost as though they were actual characters! Costume changes tend to be described so that the reader knows what spy gear Jaz is packing & how it's hidden from baddies & civilians. Jaz is smokin' hot & we all know it, but she's so emotionally damaged that she makes Dean Winchester look like a model of adjustment and well-being, which saves her from being unbearable.
Incidentally, I've been stalking your blog for a while, since finding it through either girl-wonder or WFA -- I hope you don't mind if I go ahead & friend you?
Ooh, I'll give it a try. I find that the more the author tells me about a character's changes of costume, the less I am likely to really love the book. I don't think it's causal, but there does seem to be a relationship, maybe just because I am strongly of the "I don't remember why this is on the floor, but it doesn't smell funny or look stained, so good enough!" school of fashion.
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Incidentally, I've been stalking your blog for a while, since finding it through either girl-wonder or WFA -- I hope you don't mind if I go ahead & friend you?
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Anyway, friend away.
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