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cleolinda

omg so sick

Nov 29, 2010 15:12

I seem to have come down with a nasty stomach bug--the kind where you have those sporadic clutching pains--and so we're just going to put Secret Life off until Saturday. I'm in pain and surviving on toast and Coke at the moment, and it took me two hours to put this entry together. We'll make it through somehow ( Read more... )

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profbutters November 29 2010, 21:29:45 UTC

See, if they were BLACK feathers, or someone photoshopped them black, they could do double-duty for *Hush, Hush*.

cleolinda November 29 2010, 21:31:36 UTC

...do I want to know? I mean, I know it's one of the angels-are-the-new-vampires books, but...

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Re: from what little i heard... cleolinda November 29 2010, 21:35:17 UTC

Now, I know the one in Fallen is horrible, thanks to that recap/review.

Re: from what little i heard... starnightmuse November 29 2010, 21:40:41 UTC

oh i havent actually read it. i heard from word of mouth on the street,
(is that the right expression?)

so i could be totally wrong

i'm still not touching that book with a 10 foot pole because it offends me that their trying to make Angels the next "mysterious sexy supernatural" bandwagon/ cash-cow.

Re: from what little i heard... avaserenity November 29 2010, 22:02:58 UTC

See now I work in a bookstore and I thought it was just me. Yet the number of Angels related stores are coming in hot and heavy and all I can do is hang my head and sigh.

Re: from what little i heard... ceilidh_ann November 30 2010, 00:57:24 UTC

I'm working as an Xmas temp in a bookshop and whenever I'm working in the teen section I work extra hard to pimp out non 'dark fantasy' stuff (yes, we have an entire section called dark fantasy.) There is a stupid amount of angel books in right now, I think we have 4 or 5 on the shelves being promoted at this moment in time. *sigh* When are lesbian princesses going to be the next vampires? I've got that book set out and waiting!

Re: from what little i heard... avaserenity November 30 2010, 01:37:48 UTC

It seems like everytime I turn around there is a another one on the "NEW" table. So I read the preface with an open mind but they all sound the same to me. Angel falls to earth...human girl/loner/depressed...forbidden/unrequited/dangerous/(insert adjective here) love..."I love her but I can't be with her"... and so on. And some customers are snatching those babies up.

I almost want to read them so that like I did with the Twilight Saga I have a vast number of examples for why they are not very good to me.

Re: from what little i heard... lexicomane November 30 2010, 01:44:29 UTC

Tell us more about this lesbian princess thing! Is it an actual series?

Re: from what little i heard... ceilidh_ann November 30 2010, 01:46:46 UTC

Well I'm currently trying to write a YA novel that sort of spoofs Disney princess films where the lead is gay and very kickarse but if Malinda Lo got there before me and wrote Ash, a lesbian retelling of Cinderella, which is very sweet. The companion novel Huntress is out next year.

Re: from what little i heard... gryphonmage November 30 2010, 05:15:55 UTC

Mercedes Lackey also wrote a 500 Kingdoms novel with lesbian princesses as, not the main characters, but part of the main cast.

Re: from what little i heard... evewithanapple November 30 2010, 17:44:23 UTC

Plus there's Jim Hines' Princess series, which has a lesbian Sleeping Beauty. (She's also a ninja.)

rina2o6 November 29 2010, 21:35:32 UTC

No, you don't. It apparently took the rampant misogyny of Twilight and decided to run with it.

profbutters November 29 2010, 21:58:34 UTC

I have to admit that I could only bring myself to read Ceidleigh Anne's review and the first few pages. I've got limits. But judging from the cover art and the review: http://ceilidh-ann.livejournal.com/69071.html --

and figuring that they are going to want to/ need to cash in once the Twilight franchise is toast--

--maybe they can cut a few corners.

(Yes, *Hush Hush* makes *Breaking Dawn* look like freaking Flaubert.)

oatmeal_queen November 29 2010, 22:10:54 UTC

i really, REALLY wish i hadn't clicked that link DX

lexicomane November 29 2010, 22:09:58 UTC

Didn't you talk about Hush, Hush awhile ago? Was that someone else? Or was that a different misogynistic angel book?

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