Reading roundup, including Fallow and Forbidden Parabatai Het
58. Jonathan Kellerman, The Murderer's Daughter -- a non-Alex Delaware novel, although Delaware does make a brief appearance, and I think I remember Grace mentioned in a recent Delaware book? I mean, all of Kellerman's realistic crime books take place in the same universe, so that's nothing new, but it does drive home how much more I enjoy reading
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Thr MHI books are pretty much supposed to be action flicks in book form - and Correa is a lot more diverse than people give him credit foe. I've met him, he's actually a pretty nice guy if a bit too forceful online. But he doesn't really make any pretensions about his books being more than a fun romp, which they are.
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Best part as far as I'm concerned is [Spoiler]Severin's frigging amazing declaration of love. And then how Hazel teases Ben about it in a cute sisterly way.
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I did like the scene in the car, where Julian is bleeding out and Emma is leaning over him and drawing healing runes.
The thing that bothered me about this scene came after the fact. It's stated repeatedly - after that scene - that what happens to one parabatai affects the other. Emma punches a wall and Julian tells her to stop because it hurts him, too. She nearly drowns and he spits out seawater. But when he's bleeding out in the car, she doesn't feel anything, injury-wise?
The whole connection with parabatai, as romantic and idealized as it seems, seems terribly inconsistent. Jace and Alec never seemed to have the same ties that, say, Will and Jem did. Like - they fought really well together, but didn't seem to otherwise be exceptionally attached to each other. Emma feels the loss of Julian, ( ... )
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I liked the Annabelle Lee chapter titles in the beginning, where it seemed just meta, but found quite a few of them a stretch, and when it turned out the poem was actually connected to the events of the book, that's where this approach lost me entirely.
But when he's bleeding out in the car, she doesn't feel anything, injury-wise?That is a very good point! It might be that the feeling-each-other's-pain thing is a manifestation of the boost in parabatai powers that comes with romantic love, which would explain why Alec and Jace don't have that connection (even when Alec is crushing on Jace, unrequited love doesn't count, per the rules of this ( ... )
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The thing about Kit being a Herondale is related to one of the short stories Cassie wrote for "Tales from Shadowhunter Academy". I bought the first two, piecemeal, but am waiting for the full collective volume to be published later this fall before reading the rest. (Sort of like the collection of stories about Magnus.) Anyway, one of the first ones is called "The Lost Herondale" about Tobias, which I guess is also referenced in Lady Midnight but not to the same extent. I'm curious to know, though - Johnny Rook clearly knew what he was, and what Kit was, and just wanted nothing to do with them, which is why he hid Kit. (At least, it seemed like it was more than the story he told, of "Shadowhunters will kidnap anyone with the Sight ( ... )
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In a still-Victorian modern LA a genderbent [insert a Herondale of your own choosing from previous installments], having lost the ability to be even remotely funny, but not the ability to appreciate boobs, falls in love with an Alan wannabe, but is doomed to have angst and temper issues because the Clave has not learned to make sense over the entirety of its existence. Featuring: out-of-this-world older-but-younger brother; some other siblings that are difficult to deal with; gratuitous mentions of all the other hot Shadowhunter people; fake dating; sex on the beach that’s not a cocktail; a whipping scene that I don’t know any details about and therefore can’t even work out how it fit there; and a ship whose name is ‘kitty’ which is neither ironic nor witty.
Conclusion: if you want to write multiple books set in one universe whose plot rests exclusively on how hot random people are, don’t.
What did I miss? XD
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Dude, I read the whole book, and I couldn't tell you how the whipping scene fit there...
Kitty is still subtext at this point, but not very subtle.
Other than that, you did not miss much except: locked studio (which I just wrote as "stupid" XD) of secret painting, the Angel disapproving of true love but not sex without love, magical and possibly interdimensional toilet (actually less cool than this sounds), and the older-but-younger brother's jealous fairy prince boyfriend with mood hair and a penchant for crushing acorns when he's upset.
Also, you summary is a joy to read, thank you for this gift XD
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Dude, I read the whole book, and I couldn't tell you how the whipping scene fit there... - lmao, no wonder I didn't get it XDD
Oh yes, how could I have forgotten about The Importance of Choosing Greek Words and the moodring hair XD I heard so much about moodring hair tbh, but I wasn't aware about the crushing acorns part hahahaha, that must look so menacing :') And the toilet completely slipped my radar!
Gosh, I might actually get abs from laughing at this book ngl.
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Yes indeed! Choosing the right Greek word is very pretentious important!
I'm surprised that K did not mention the acorn-crushing, because I think it was in 50% of her FPH texts to me, as shorthand for being done in by the book XD
The transdimensional toilet is actually a secret lever-operated portal that leads from a place of magical convergence of ley lines (somewhat in Cornwall, somewhat not) out into the ocean near the Institute for some reason? The Portal opens into the ocean with the lever pull, which made K characterize it as flushing, and I could never unsee it after that.
I can just imagine the exercise you'd be getting if you actually read the thing, between laughing and vigorous facepalming and the calisthenics of raising your eyebrows and rolling your eyes. Ochen' ozdorovitel'no!
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