know that I still remain true

[musesfool]

So I finished all four books in Gail Carriger's The Parasol Protectorate series (a fifth book - of course - is due in March 2012). and despite the lax editing, which led to some jarring mistakes being left in, I enjoyed them a lot. I can't really separate them out into separate books because I read the first three as an omnibus on my iPad, and then

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[taraljc]

I really need to get me a Catwoman icon.

Whatcha looking for?

[musesfool]

Something where she looks fabulous, maybe while in action or using her whip. I don't really have anything specific in mind.

[starfishchick]

I answered the whole survey, putting in the 10028 zip, and at the end it said "thank you but you did not qualify" ... so I don't know what that means.

[musesfool]

Yeah, I don't know. Someone on my DW list had the same experience, which is how I found out about it, except she's actually in the US, so I don't know if it's that they don't want women in a certain age group or what.

[amore_di_libri]

Thanks for the DC survey link. As a female comic book fan, it was nice to at least vent somewhere in the direction of DC and tell them what they're doing right (Animal Man and Frankenstein were the surprise hits for me). :D

[musesfool]

Yeah, I don't know how much they're actually doing to listen to what people say, but it did feel good to click some boxes and vent.

[dagnylilytable]

I'm really glad to know that the last two in the Parasol Protectorate got better (in that you did read them all), because I loved the first one and then the second one ending with the whole "she's been unfaithful" thing really put me off, plus the pacing of that one was a bit off by comparison. The friend who got me into the books was wondering if the fourth one was better (she liked the third okay but wasn't sure about shelling out for another), but if there's still Lord Akeldama and werewolf hijinks, I'm in.

[musesfool]

I think it helped that since I had the ebook omnibus, there was no real divide between book 2 and book 3, so there wasn't any kind of wait for me to marinate in over Conall's unacceptable behavior. I did like the last book better than the third, I think, because I felt like the drama of him repudiating her was unnecessary and it does hang over all of book 3.

[spectralbovine]

I especially liked Lord Akeldama, the old dandy vampire with the intelligence network of hot young men, and Professor Lyall, the Beta of the main pack of werewolves, whom I pictured as a lycanthropic Agent Coulson, forever having to deal with (i.e. clean up after) the drama of the outsize personalities around him.
Yep, they are basically the best. I just finished the fourth book yesterday. They're entertaining, fluffy fun.

[musesfool]

*nod nod*

I found them really good for train reading. I definitely wanted to know what happened next, but it wasn't too hard to put it away when I reached my stop.