I was told by a lovely lady in an email that she would really like to see some book recommendations, so: my readers' wish is my command! Book recommendations it is
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Am just halfway through Daughter of Smoke and Bone now and yeah, it's like one of those books where you really want to spend more time in LT's head after reading it! Yay!
I wanted to love DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE much more than I actually did; it's very much a type of book that I just don't particularly care for. But! It's probably the best example of that type of book I've ever read, and Laini Taylor's writing is gorgeous, so I absolutely recommend it to other people. (Plus, the ending was AMAZING. The cultures of other worlds: this is why I read fantasy!) And I want to read LIPS TOUCH as soon as I can get my hands on it.
I'm also dying to read ANNA DRESSED IN BLOOD, and I think that needs to be done very soon before my Halloween fervor goes away. Most of the year I'm not really up for horror, but right now I want it ALL.
An angel book, or a romance book? Or is it a star-crossed/soulmates romance kind of thing? I am generally VERY resistant to past-life things, but part of the fun of this book is that it sold me on tons of stuff I'm not always into. That does require trusting the author, though: one of my great writerly wishes is to have people trust me so I can do weird stuff. ;)
Sort of the star-crossed/soulmates thing, I guess. I always thought that was something I liked, until I actually started reading it! (I still like the Inevitable Romance, though: there's a line from one of the ANNE books where Marilla really sums it up. "I wonder why everyone thinks I ought to marry Gilbert Blythe," says Anne, and Marilla replies, "Because you were made and meant for each other, Anne, and that's a fact." LOVE. And it works so well because we already agree!)
And you sold me on demons, so you've got my trust! I'm now waiting for you to sell me on Gothics. :D
I like your icon. ;) Romance is so subjective! I think lots about it as Unspoken approaches. And then there's the difference between, oh they'll be together and that's nice (how I felt about Anne and Gilbert, to be honest) and ohhhh I want them to be together so much. How does one make the reader ship something? The eternal question. And of course, you can't make every reader do anything. But I have been looking around, to see how people react to LT's Akiva and Karou, and Cassie Clare's different couples, and so on. And going 'hmmm.'
Hi! thanks for the recommendations, and especially for the link to Mike and Psmith, which sounds like my kind of book.
About angels and "angelology" (if there is such a word) - have you ever read Carol Plum Ucci's What Happened to Lani Garver? That is an amazing book, and I think it might be right up your alley.
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I'm also dying to read ANNA DRESSED IN BLOOD, and I think that needs to be done very soon before my Halloween fervor goes away. Most of the year I'm not really up for horror, but right now I want it ALL.
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And you sold me on demons, so you've got my trust! I'm now waiting for you to sell me on Gothics. :D
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About angels and "angelology" (if there is such a word) - have you ever read Carol Plum Ucci's What Happened to Lani Garver? That is an amazing book, and I think it might be right up your alley.
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