There are times when I find the whole urban fantasy genre frustrating as fuck. I should be its biggest fan! I love ridiculous Mary Sues, I love cities, I love female protagonists, I love adventure and mystery and yadda yadda. But I was thinking it over, with my failed run at yet another highly recommended urban fantasy (Magic to the Bone), and I ( Read more... )

Man, I haven't posted in forever. Partially because of catching a cold, and partially because of general meh at life. So! Have two book reactions, about two books about as polar opposite as things get.

Intrigues by Mercedes Lackey

I think my overwhelming reaction to this book can be summed up as lolololol. ( cut for spoilers for the entire book )

...well that was intelligent of me. So! If you have made a comment to me for the last couple of weeks that I haven't responded to, it's because my LJ/DW/JF email address had stopped forwarding to gmail because the forwarding service I used changed and stopped forwarding. I was wondering why all comments had suddenly ceased! So I just set up a ( Read more... )

You know you've been hanging out on fandom_wank too long when you have a dream about a fandom that has people who kill anyone who snarks on it. And since I was taking a class on it and couldn't stop making sarcastic comments about it, I was thus doomed. Except for the fact that I was a werewolf and could therefore probably eat them. I woke up ( Read more... )

Man, I still feel really crappy. This is annoying.

Anyway! In order to deal with the crappiness, I have been reading mindcandy urban fantasy, and I finally figured out what's really been bugging me about Carolyn Crane's Disillusionist series. Which, if you haven't read it or heard of it, is basically about a group of mentally ill people going ( Read more... )

( Books that have made me happy lately \o\ )

So, I finally read Blameless by Gail Carriger, after the second book in that series succeeded in seriously pissing me off with the kind of cliffhanger ending that made me stop shipping the main couple forever.

( And I have thoughts on this. Spoilery thoughts, for both Changeless and Soulless )

...It's always nice to know that the fact that I tend to spend September feeling bitchy as hell outlasts my school career. Bah.

( Books! )

It occurs to me that I am apparently incapable of finding any character named Gale a good candidate for a love triangle. Because if a Gale is involved in a love triangle, I expect that love triangle to be resolved into a healthy poly relationship, where each person in it is as emotionally healthy as they can be given their circumstances, and also ( Read more... )

Cryoburn is out! \o\ At least if you're willing to pay $15 for an unedited electronic copy, which I so am.

( Cut for spoilers, including a big one for the very end )