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[meganbmoore]

The Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer by Lucy Weston

This means my emphasis.

Sovereign Power. Eternal Pleasure. Revealed at last in this new vampire saga for the ages: the true, untold story of the “Virgin Queen” and her secret war against the Vampire King of England. . . .

On the eve of her coronation, Elizabeth Tudor is

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[raanve]

I... am currently wrestling down my urge to read this book. God knows I don't have enough reading/work/whatever to do.

But man oh man. Is this EVER TEMPTING.

[meganbmoore]

It is SO HARD TO RESIST. I'm trying though.

BTW, I can't remember, were you planning to read the Squire's Tales books outside of the Lynette book? Because I have an extra copy of Parsifal's Page (different editions tricked me).

[raanve]

I have several of them on my "to read" pile, but I sort of chose them at random and for my own bizarre reasons. ;P However, at some point I am likely to read them all, so if you are looking to unload a copy, I will gladly give it a home. ;)

I just got my hands on Vera Chapman's Lynette book (it's in the mail now) and I am BEYOND EXCITE.

I can also assure you that if this Elizabeth/Mordred book is available in any library in this state, it will be read by me sooner or later. I mean really. Mordred is the vampire king? Elizabeth I -- who is already enough of a badass that she barely needs help -- is a slayer? Really, this book cannot be resisted.

[meganbmoore]

I've just been grabbing them when I see them for cheap. I'm reading the Dinadin book now. So far, they're really best when the squires are all "WTF I was gone for two minutes AND YOU ARE ON ANOTHER ABSURD QUEST WITH A DAMSEL WHO DOESN'T SEEM TO WANT YOU AROUND ANYWAY WHAT IS WITH YOU?"

Have you read the Phyllis Ann Karr book yet?

[raanve]

1) MEGAN OMG. My library system has like nine thousand copies of this book. IT IS ON.

2) The Dinadin book is on my list! Do let me know how you like it, because Dinadin has buckets of potential for being entertaining. And yes -- this is part of why I loved Roger Lancelyn Green's King Arthur so well. There are all these little moments when you can practically SEE people rolling their eyes and making WTF faces, and yet it's all very understated and hilarious.

3) I did! I loved it, actually. It was just the right amount of genuinely good while providing me with laughs. I adored her Kay, and I loved also that Lancelot is an important figure without dominating the whole universe -- and while having it acknowledged that he's... not really the greatest in so many ways.

[meganbmoore]

1) READ IT QUICKLY AND REPORT!

2) The Dinadin book is fun so far. Kay is along on this adventure and all "Idiots! Idiots all!" Dinadin himself is rather filling the squire POV of the other 2 books so far.

30 That book actually made me ship Guenevere/Kay, and I haven't decided how I feel about that yet. Critical takes on Lancelot tend to result in better Arthuriana, IMO.

[raanve]

1) *salutes* I will get to this as soon as the rest of my reading allows. And there will definitely be a report.

2) That makes sense to me. And I was never much for Kay, before, but he's grown on me. I liked the Gareth/Lynette one quite a lot - I thought the tone was well done, and it was fun to read - though I hear some of them are better than others.

3) Yeah, I could definitely see it. Though I got the sense, too, of a Guenevere who is just so good she sort of loves everyone? At least, that was the sense I had right up until the end. I appreciate it most, I think, when the romantic love aspects are complicated by, for example, arranged marriage and the dividing lines between love and loyalty -- which in the best Arthuriana tend to be quite hard to suss out, in my opinion. And I myself am most fond of critical takes on Lancelot; this is the only way I've been able to get a handle on Lancelot, who's always sort of baffled me before. (I'm RPing a Lance right now, actually, and he's interesting... but mainly because he is a screw-up

[meganbmoore]

2) I've always liked Kay because he's kinda grouchy and bristly. Though, the Kay from the The Sword in the Stone movie was the more formative Kay for me, so I've always been surprised that that didn't affect my liking more.

3) Yeah, I think that was very much a Guenevere who at least had a platonic love for everyone, but I think that may have been needed for the plot. Have you read Morris's Author's Notes in the books? They're rather interesting regarding takes on the legends, though, being written for a younger audience, Im not always sure if some parts are from the sources he chooses to focus on, or (more likely) that he's directing his POV to what 10-14 year olds will grasp the most easily.

Incidentally, the one of his Knight's Tales book that I've read-the Gawain one-uses the humor for the much younger audience to make it all about how completely absurd some of these things are.