the second book is AMAZING! Jamie gets a lot of action and Mae is wonderful and there are gay crushes and skdj;ljkfd;askd I am not objective about this at all because Jamie is my favorite character and after book 2 my love for him grew by x 1000000000000000.
also just. the idea that a writer who writes slash signs away her soul to write gay romance forever and nothing else makes me really horrified, because i would like to think that i signed up to fandom for good stories and brilliant characterizations, and i feel like i got both from these books in spades. So the idea that fandom is somehow APPALLED AND DISAPPOINTED in the author for some reason makes me want to cry.
You were the reason I bought the first book in the first place! I don't typically read much fantasy or anything because I'm just not into the genre, but the presence of slash helps make the medicine go down, I suppose. I definitely wouldn't have minded romance--if present--being a small thing, and was even enjoying the way Alan just completely lost himself around Mae.
Like I said, though, Jamie was really the only character who seemed real and grounded and not overly angsty like Nick or overly secretive like Alan (Mae, too, to an extent, seemed more real and like there wasn't anything "special" being thrust at the reader in a desperate attempt to get you to like her, which...makes you like her). Perhaps I'll sleep on it a bit more before making up my mind, since I really seem to be the only one of my friends who didn't enjoy the series all that much :/
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the second book is AMAZING! Jamie gets a lot of action and Mae is wonderful and there are gay crushes and skdj;ljkfd;askd I am not objective about this at all because Jamie is my favorite character and after book 2 my love for him grew by x 1000000000000000.
also just. the idea that a writer who writes slash signs away her soul to write gay romance forever and nothing else makes me really horrified, because i would like to think that i signed up to fandom for good stories and brilliant characterizations, and i feel like i got both from these books in spades. So the idea that fandom is somehow APPALLED AND DISAPPOINTED in the author for some reason makes me want to cry.
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Like I said, though, Jamie was really the only character who seemed real and grounded and not overly angsty like Nick or overly secretive like Alan (Mae, too, to an extent, seemed more real and like there wasn't anything "special" being thrust at the reader in a desperate attempt to get you to like her, which...makes you like her). Perhaps I'll sleep on it a bit more before making up my mind, since I really seem to be the only one of my friends who didn't enjoy the series all that much :/
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