Hmmm. My memory's a bit fuzzy since I read Fantasy Lover and Night Pleasures first, but I think Kyrian was the Thracian prince and Julian was a Macedonian general.
Seeing as I live in Asia, a lot of my history lessons focused more on Asian history (have an ongoing obsession with the Three Kingdoms period, no thanks to the movie Red Cliff). But if I remember correctly, the Minoan civilization was supposed to be centered around Crete, right? And Mycenean Greece was pretty much at the end of the Bronze Age?
Well, about the Atlantis thing, didn't Kenyon use Appolymi's wrath as the reason why "Greek" culture regressed to the stone age or something like that? I haven't re-read Acheron yet either so I'm kind of fuzzy on the details. Then again, were there even people living in the general area of Athens at the time? Something that Kenyon conveniently explains away as the archeological record is only as good as the next find.
The problem with the Darkyn series is that the books are interconnected, and once you read one, you'll want to read the others if only to find out what happened to the loose ends. But I would suggest Dark Need first, as it has, IMO, the best chemistry between the hero and the heroine, and the hero is pretty much in the loveable bad-guy anti-hero category. Correction though, seems he *was* a Templar knight after all, but he turned assassin once he became Darkyn. Then again, the hero in Twilight Fall (book 6) is Austian (he first appears in Private Demon, which is book 2), so you might get a kick out of seeing the random German phrases and endearments being thrown around? And the heroine in that book is Chinese, so I give Viehl points for writing a cross-racial romance.
Is Hunger Games a YA series? I seem to remember reading about it in a blurb somewhere. Hmmm, will hit the bookstores to see if I can find copies of the books.
Char's counterattack?! That is definitely old school. Got any links to the character designs so I can see for myself?
*oops* Yeah, you're right ^^;; But even as a Macedon, Julian wouldn't be called Julian (Iulius and all its derivates is a very, very Roman name).
Yes, the Minoan civilisation was centered mainly in Crete and Santorini but a common theory is that they were conquered by Mycenean troops around 1400 - 1200 BC since their power was severely weakened by the great bronze age eruption of the vulcano of Thera (Santorini).
And, while there probably were indeed human beings in Greece and around the Aegean during the late palaeolithic, but they were not Greek. The first Greeks as we know them were the Myceneans who arrived there in the early 3rd/late 2nd millenium BC, at least according to Wikipedia.
I know I sound pedantic but it doesn't really bother me in the books. I mean, not really. Only maybe a little? ^^;; *hides*
I'll try to find the books. And yes, The Hunger Games is YA but really good! Actually, I think they are very distopian and disturbing to be YA but when I was the age most people read these kinds of books I mostly read non-fiction about archaeology and astronomy. I was a strange child. But then, most YA books then were shitty and the few which were translated into German were probably handpicked by teachers and the like and this guaranteed that they were the most boring literature on earth :/
Here is one of the (better) trailers; the animation looks top-notch but I'm not sure yet I can get over the ugly designs. I suppose I've just become too used to Gundam (and Macross) designers catering to female aesthetics *sigh*.
Hehe. Well, Kenyon's degree was in medieval history or something like that. But even her medieval books that she writes under the name Kinley MacGregor have problems. I read one book that had one of the characters mention saving the hero from the "great ovarian horde" or something like that. As if they knew what ovaries were back in the middle ages.
i>I know I sound pedantic but it doesn't really bother me in the books. I mean, not really. Only maybe a little? ^^;; *hides*
I so understand the feeling. But I suppose it's OK to let our inner fangirls triumph over our inner geeks once in a while? ^^;;
Checked out Hunger Games at National Bookstore. They actually have an ongoing contest tied up to the books right now, but I think I've already blown my book budget for the next two months with all the books I've been buying lately. Ditto on the archaeology, not so much on the astronomy (I can't identify any constellations to save my life). They probably just translated the Newberry winners and ALA top picks books into German. I highly doubt that they would have translated the Christpher Pike, R.L. Stine, and L.J. Smith type stories into German. Speaking of German transaltions, I think the German edition (it's listed in amazon.de) of If Angels Fall, the first book in the Darkyn series, is actually coming out this year. Of course, since can read English just fine, would you even bother with the German ed?
Haven't checked out the trailer yet, since my brother's utorrent is hogging all of the bandwidth from the router.
I didn't read any of her Kinley McGregor books yet. I'm just so fed up with anything medieval, particularly of the Irish/Scottish/Nordic kind. A book would have to be very, very well written to make me read it ^^;;
Actually, I haven't read a novel in German for ages. I don't even know which authors get translated these days and which don't. Also, another reason why I didn't read much YA back then was that usually the German editions of anything new are HC first and then they wait for the whole series to be translated until they publish the first paperback (I think they've yet to publish any of the Harry Potter novels in paperback). And of course I didn't have much money back then. And in the library, every new novel generally had a long waiting list. So I usually rather watched TV and spent much of my money on comics (I still think I have tons of Elfquest GN-like books somewhere ^^;;). The only books I rememeber reading back then which I would (and do, occassionally) re-read in German were the Tortall novels by Tamora Pierce.
Um... don't tell anyone but if you want to read the Hunger Games anyway, go to 4shared.com and insert Hunger Games into the search field. You should get a wide variety of PDFs, LIT and TXT-files. But don't tell anyone (the last thing anyone needs are DMCA guys finding out about this method of getting books the cheapest way) ;) (but I still bought most of my books!)
Seeing as I live in Asia, a lot of my history lessons focused more on Asian history (have an ongoing obsession with the Three Kingdoms period, no thanks to the movie Red Cliff). But if I remember correctly, the Minoan civilization was supposed to be centered around Crete, right? And Mycenean Greece was pretty much at the end of the Bronze Age?
Well, about the Atlantis thing, didn't Kenyon use Appolymi's wrath as the reason why "Greek" culture regressed to the stone age or something like that? I haven't re-read Acheron yet either so I'm kind of fuzzy on the details. Then again, were there even people living in the general area of Athens at the time? Something that Kenyon conveniently explains away as the archeological record is only as good as the next find.
The problem with the Darkyn series is that the books are interconnected, and once you read one, you'll want to read the others if only to find out what happened to the loose ends. But I would suggest Dark Need first, as it has, IMO, the best chemistry between the hero and the heroine, and the hero is pretty much in the loveable bad-guy anti-hero category. Correction though, seems he *was* a Templar knight after all, but he turned assassin once he became Darkyn. Then again, the hero in Twilight Fall (book 6) is Austian (he first appears in Private Demon, which is book 2), so you might get a kick out of seeing the random German phrases and endearments being thrown around? And the heroine in that book is Chinese, so I give Viehl points for writing a cross-racial romance.
Is Hunger Games a YA series? I seem to remember reading about it in a blurb somewhere. Hmmm, will hit the bookstores to see if I can find copies of the books.
Char's counterattack?! That is definitely old school. Got any links to the character designs so I can see for myself?
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Yes, the Minoan civilisation was centered mainly in Crete and Santorini but a common theory is that they were conquered by Mycenean troops around 1400 - 1200 BC since their power was severely weakened by the great bronze age eruption of the vulcano of Thera (Santorini).
And, while there probably were indeed human beings in Greece and around the Aegean during the late palaeolithic, but they were not Greek. The first Greeks as we know them were the Myceneans who arrived there in the early 3rd/late 2nd millenium BC, at least according to Wikipedia.
I know I sound pedantic but it doesn't really bother me in the books. I mean, not really. Only maybe a little? ^^;; *hides*
I'll try to find the books. And yes, The Hunger Games is YA but really good! Actually, I think they are very distopian and disturbing to be YA but when I was the age most people read these kinds of books I mostly read non-fiction about archaeology and astronomy. I was a strange child. But then, most YA books then were shitty and the few which were translated into German were probably handpicked by teachers and the like and this guaranteed that they were the most boring literature on earth :/
Here is one of the (better) trailers; the animation looks top-notch but I'm not sure yet I can get over the ugly designs. I suppose I've just become too used to Gundam (and Macross) designers catering to female aesthetics *sigh*.
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i>I know I sound pedantic but it doesn't really bother me in the books. I mean, not really. Only maybe a little? ^^;; *hides*
I so understand the feeling. But I suppose it's OK to let our inner fangirls triumph over our inner geeks once in a while? ^^;;
Checked out Hunger Games at National Bookstore. They actually have an ongoing contest tied up to the books right now, but I think I've already blown my book budget for the next two months with all the books I've been buying lately. Ditto on the archaeology, not so much on the astronomy (I can't identify any constellations to save my life). They probably just translated the Newberry winners and ALA top picks books into German. I highly doubt that they would have translated the Christpher Pike, R.L. Stine, and L.J. Smith type stories into German. Speaking of German transaltions, I think the German edition (it's listed in amazon.de) of If Angels Fall, the first book in the Darkyn series, is actually coming out this year. Of course, since can read English just fine, would you even bother with the German ed?
Haven't checked out the trailer yet, since my brother's utorrent is hogging all of the bandwidth from the router.
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Actually, I haven't read a novel in German for ages. I don't even know which authors get translated these days and which don't. Also, another reason why I didn't read much YA back then was that usually the German editions of anything new are HC first and then they wait for the whole series to be translated until they publish the first paperback (I think they've yet to publish any of the Harry Potter novels in paperback). And of course I didn't have much money back then. And in the library, every new novel generally had a long waiting list. So I usually rather watched TV and spent much of my money on comics (I still think I have tons of Elfquest GN-like books somewhere ^^;;). The only books I rememeber reading back then which I would (and do, occassionally) re-read in German were the Tortall novels by Tamora Pierce.
Um... don't tell anyone but if you want to read the Hunger Games anyway, go to 4shared.com and insert Hunger Games into the search field. You should get a wide variety of PDFs, LIT and TXT-files. But don't tell anyone (the last thing anyone needs are DMCA guys finding out about this method of getting books the cheapest way) ;) (but I still bought most of my books!)
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Took your, ahem, advise about Hunger Games. Hee. Don't tell anyone though. ^_^
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