Talking Meme: Engelsfors
Okay, technically it is now the 14th where I live, but it's still the 13th somewhere in the U.S., so we'll pretend that I'm posting on time:Kelsey asked for a pimp/yelling-about-feelings post about the Engelsfors trilogy, and I am SO HAPPY TO OBLIGE
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Yes to everything you have to say wrt: EVERYONE SHOULD READ THESE NOVELS. (esp everything)
For the spoilers:
+ I LOVE HOW THIS IS BEING DEVELOPED. I would be *so upset* if they were not endgame - but I also am LOOOOOOOVING the slow burn of their relationship. How much time they are taking to get to know each other, the way even their friendship has ups and downs and isn't perfect, the way they are LEARNING to trust each other. UGH. It breaks EVERY RULE of YALit and as such is the most flawlessly constructed relationship I've read in a while.
+ NEVER OVER IT. Rebecka was my one true love.
+ I basically want a trilogy preseries about Adriana's life. Can we? THIS IS WHAT FANDOM SHOULD BE DOING WHILE WE WAIT FOR BOOK THREE.
+ THIS. A million times this.
+ If I had to choose, it would be Linnea. There's something very quaint about the way the authors are portraying a character that could so easily got lost in a ~trope or become a caricature. Linnea always feels the most accessible to me. (Second is Vanessa and Linnea is ( ... )
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EVERYONE SHOULD READ THESE NOVELS.
I don't usually feel so passionately about trying to ~convert ppl b/c different strokes for different folks, yanno, but this is one of those rare series where I just want to be like, please, please, please read. AFAIK not a ton of ppl in our corner of fandom read YA fantasy, but I feel like they would all like it so much anyway?? I wish Engelsfors had been around a few years ago at the height of Spuffy fandom, because I think the parallels with BtVS would have drawn people in.
I also am LOOOOOOOVING the slow burn of their relationship...they are LEARNING to trust each other.
THIS THIS THIS! Yes! Despite needing them to be endgame, I'm so pleased that they haven't actually gotten together yet because of course it would take time for them to trust each other and their feelings and to not feel like ( ... )
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YES I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING which I'm sure you knew, lol. I'm so so happy I've managed to spread the love, considering I've been a fan from before the first book got released.
I don't know if you know but the authors are major BtVS fans and they have admitted to getting inspiration from BtVS, but like you said it's definitely not a copy. (Also the authors are super nice, I met them once and I asked them why they chose to have so many female protagonists and they said it was because nobody else did. Which is what I've been thinking forever.)
SO MUCH LADY LOVE IT IS MY FAVORITE THING ABOUT THE BOOKS.
I don't want to comment much on the spoilers since I know a bunch of spoilery things but I can't wait to hear your thoughts on the book!!
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considering I've been a fan from before the first book got released.
From before? Were you already fans of the authors?
I'd seen on their website that they were fans of BtVS (I poked around the site a bit when I was desperately searching for a book 3 release date)! That's so cool that you met them! They seemed really nice from the little I saw on Tumblr (I've only seen a little b/c I'm trying to actively avoid fandom and spoilers until I read book 3).
THERE'S AN AMERICAN RELEASE DATE NOW!! AMAZON OFFICIALLY HAS A PAGE! AAAAAAAHHHHH FEBRUARY 5TH!! It's so far away... /O\
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I WILL BE COUNTING THE DAYS but it really feels like forever. :((( I know one of my friends already has it pre-ordered, lmao.
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