Yay, books! Also: Teen Wolf, yay? And: Podfic! Yay! :D
1. Timeless by Gail Carriger, last book in the Parasol Protectorate: I'm a bit sad that the series is over, because I just love it so, SO much, but at the same time I was very satisfied by this ending. The story was, as is to be expected, wonderful and wonderfully written, suspenseful and entertaining in itself, but also tied up all of the loose strings for the series as a whole. I liked Professor Lyall's story-line (except for that one part where his back story squicked me out like nobody's business, Jesus), especially the romantic part of it (so much chin-hands and dolphin-noises <3). I liked that Biffy got a bigger part in this installment, not to mention Ivy - and who could've predicted that awesome plot twist? Certainly not me! :D
Alexia and Conall continue to work oh so well for me - I heart them so much, it's ridiculous. <3 Resolving their immortality and potential craziness plot lines was very necessary for ending the series in a way that makes it feel complete, so I'm happy how that turned out.
If you haven't read the book, none of the above will make sense to you, obviously. In that case I'd strongly advise you to go read the Parasol Protectorate right now - it's only 5 books long, and who doesn't love Victorian steam punk with vampires and werewolves and kick-ass female protagonists? :D
2. Team Human by Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan: I was looking forward to this book a lot and enjoyed it a lot, too - great characters, an interesting world and a suspenseful plot. Interestingly though, I ended up far more interested in Kit's side of the story. I think this might've had something to do with the protagonist, Mel, and her evolution. Or maybe lack thereof? Obviously she changes her opinion somewhere between the beginning and the end of the book, but I didn't really see the progress. Her attitude towards vampires seems, probably due to the portrayal and other people's views on said vampires, somewhat extreme, if understandable. And the change we see in her after the climax just doesn't ring true to me after seeing her attitude get even worse right up until said climax. Not to mention that I was kind of disappointed that interacting with Kit didn't really do anything to improve Mel's opinion of Vampires. IDK. Does any of this even make sense? I still liked the story, I just felt like there was something missing. And yeah, Kit's story? I'd love to read that.
3. Teen Wolf. So yeah. Remember when that was a show I had absolutely no interest or emotional investment in, aside from Derek/Stiles fic? Good times. I tried watching some of the first season, which left me pretty cold (aside from Stiles, because how could I resist him? Also Lydia, fuck yeah.), and I was fine with that. Except then season 2 came around and I figured 'why not?', only to be COMPLETELY OVERWHELMED with feelings. Dear god. I suddenly cared about all of the characters, became super invested in Scott/Allison and Lydia/Jackson and the bb!wolves and Derek's face and GAH.
Anyway, I'm loving it, even though the last two episodes of season 2 left me kind of meh. The fandom is pretty fucking amazing and so, so good for me. *________*
To be honest, I think Teen Wolf might be the new SGA, kinda? I mean, probably not in general, it would be a bit early to say that. But it's sort of MY new SGA. You see, SGA was my first big fandom, the one that got me more involved. Back when it still aired, it held most of my fannish interest, in so far that I read almost nothing but SGA fic and had no interest in changing that. Since then I've been pretty...er, poly fannish? multi fannish? Whatever you want to call it. But right now it's like 80% of my fannish investment is taken up by Teen Wolf, and the other 20% are for Hockey and Avengers and occasional nostalgia trips into old fandoms.
4. I don't think that was very coherent, sorry. It's kind of late. Not too late for editing, though! :D I'm currently working on an Avengers podfic that I'm pretty excited about. I really hope it won't take me too long to finish. And I also hope I won't end up convincing myself again that my previous recordings are unusable and I need to re-record EVERYTHING. <.< But yeah. I'm making progress and I'm feeling pretty good about it. :)