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[bookelfe]

You know how sometimes you all of a sudden remember the existence of an author from your childhood, and you go, "really? Was the heroine's love interest actually a pig that that turned into a dragon? Did the fairies seriously turn out to be aliens that made them do it? Did the villainness have sex with an evil broom? Did that really happen

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[evil_little_dog]

I remember reading the pig-dragon one. I think it's on one of my shelves or in a box right now, so I can't run and find it and tell you the title, but I have it as a collected series? Either two or three books from that universe.

[bookelfe]

I could have sworn I used to own the pig-dragon one, but apparently my bookshelves disagree. Oh well; that is what libraries are for!

[bookelfe]

Not at all! :D More people around here to talk books with is always a plus.

It probably says something about my childhood self that the really weird orgies are often ALL that I remember about certain books.

[lb_lee]

Here via nevacaruso.

Oh LORD, Mary Brown. We only read the first four of the series with the pig-dragon, with the books getting steadily less satisfying. Am rereading The Unlikely Ones right now, actually, and it's not that bad, surprisingly. It's like the tropes that got out of control STARTED in that book in a bearable form--the pretty girl who thinks she's ugly, the interspecies relationships, the WTF endings. In the Unlikely Ones, they're all kinda muted, unlike by the pig-dragon books where it's OVERWHELMING and WTF and THE HELL IS THIS.

--Rogan