I just got a goodreads account!
http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/19199742-dangermousie
Only one review yet, but I will probably slowly end up importing most of mine. Please gimme your goodread accounts so I can friend.
In other book news, I have finished the second book in The Maker's Song series, In the Blood - starting almost immediately after A Rush of Wings left off, ITB follows Heather, Dante and the rest of the characters from the first book as they cope with (1) the Government wanting traces of their failed experiment wiped out and/or studied, which is bad news for Heather, who already has her hands full trying to cope with her bipolar sister Annie (2) the Fallen trying to find and use Dante to save their fading realm, and (3) the psychotic Wells family (paterfamilias of which was one of the two scientists who programmed Dante) wanting to use Dante for their own means, preferably by triggering and/or torturing him. None of which is made better by the fact that Dante is slowly unraveling and losing control of himself and seeing that he can reshape reality, that is really really bad news for everyone involved, not that various bad guys really process that taking someone with tenuous hold on his sanity and trying to fuck him up further is a really really bad idea.
I think I liked this book even better than ARoW, even though this is possibly darker. I think it's because I've grown to know and like these characters - Heather continues to be her tough-minded, awesome, ridiculously sane self (which is pretty impressive seeing that she is in a sort of unending madhouse that is her life) and I feel truly horrible for Dante who would probably qualify as clinically insane by this point but is shockingly human and capable of love and self-sacrifice, seeing what his life has been. I continue to ship them like mad, which is just as well as she is pretty much the one thing that keeps him functioning and I love that she doesn't flinch from stuff that he seems to drag in his wake.
This said, it's a dark bleak book and I found myself wishing that Book 3 would be all about Heather and Dante chilling on some tropical island, making out and drinking, 300 pages of relaxation and therapy and no bad guys in sight.
Only one review yet, but I will probably slowly end up importing most of mine. Please gimme your goodread accounts so I can friend.
In other book news, I have finished the second book in The Maker's Song series, In the Blood - starting almost immediately after A Rush of Wings left off, ITB follows Heather, Dante and the rest of the characters from the first book as they cope with (1) the Government wanting traces of their failed experiment wiped out and/or studied, which is bad news for Heather, who already has her hands full trying to cope with her bipolar sister Annie (2) the Fallen trying to find and use Dante to save their fading realm, and (3) the psychotic Wells family (paterfamilias of which was one of the two scientists who programmed Dante) wanting to use Dante for their own means, preferably by triggering and/or torturing him. None of which is made better by the fact that Dante is slowly unraveling and losing control of himself and seeing that he can reshape reality, that is really really bad news for everyone involved, not that various bad guys really process that taking someone with tenuous hold on his sanity and trying to fuck him up further is a really really bad idea.
I think I liked this book even better than ARoW, even though this is possibly darker. I think it's because I've grown to know and like these characters - Heather continues to be her tough-minded, awesome, ridiculously sane self (which is pretty impressive seeing that she is in a sort of unending madhouse that is her life) and I feel truly horrible for Dante who would probably qualify as clinically insane by this point but is shockingly human and capable of love and self-sacrifice, seeing what his life has been. I continue to ship them like mad, which is just as well as she is pretty much the one thing that keeps him functioning and I love that she doesn't flinch from stuff that he seems to drag in his wake.
This said, it's a dark bleak book and I found myself wishing that Book 3 would be all about Heather and Dante chilling on some tropical island, making out and drinking, 300 pages of relaxation and therapy and no bad guys in sight.