Not interested in your bullshit

[ellestra]

So the Hugo Awards happened yesterday (here is liveblog and hopefully they'll put the whole ceremony somewhere because it was hilarious). I watched the ceremony and Connie Willis and Dalek killed everyone and it was great despite all the No awards (it ended with the more No awards that were given out last evening than in all the years before

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[ellestra]

I hope so - everyone seems to love it. And I hope I'll like 5th Season - for some reason I couldn't get into the Dreamblood books.

Mostly urban fantasy. I read Rachel Aaron's Heartstrikers books - there are dragons and magic and the urban fantasy part doesn't make me want to kill the main characters (and no love triangles). I loved both of the books and now I'm waiting for more. I also started her (as Rachel Bach) more science fiction - Paradox trilogy but the romance is heavy in this one (and I don't like this kind of 'I'm always right' characters - remind me too much of Anita Blake and Richard Rahl). I tired the first Kim Harrison Hollows book - Dead Witch Walking - and I liked the world and it wasn't bad but I can see all the future romantic complications coming (especially with the main bad) and I just don't want any of that. And then was the short fiction I mentioned and now I'm finishing the newest Stross Laundry book - Mo is the narrator in this one and she deals with superheroes - it a series about Lovercraftian horrors from another dimensions and demonology through mathematics (computers really sped up the rate of incursions).

I keep complaining about romance but in urban fantasy it tends to devolve into something awful (borderline abusive - especially if it includes triangles) that make me deeply dislike everyone involve and spoil the series. Not always but often enough that I get wary whenever there are even indications it may happen.