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[scratchmist]

I've been meaning to blabber about this for a while, so...

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[mythicbeast]

BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BY THE WAY.

Oh, you totally have to read The Immortals if only so that you can read my terrible fanfics and understand them. D: D: D: I want to see if you like Rikash as much as I do. XD (!!!)

Are these the ugly covers that, by any chance, happen to have hideous metal bird-things on the covers? Because if they are, I totally understand where you're coming from.

[scratchmist]

I'm torn between getting The Immortals or Trickster's next, and the latter is winning because the covers are so much more appealing. The ugly covers are the ones with really bad Daine art on them (her hair was like Medusa and she was surrounded by badly drawn leopards (?)), framed with garishly bright colors. They should reprint the series and get a better cover artist. D:<

I read Wet Weather, despite not knowing Rikash, and it was well written. ^^ I only know Daine and Numair from Protector of the Small, and they are lyk so totally in lurve there (which is kind of creepy, since I take it Numair is old as a mountain? and he's known Daine since she was a teenager? uhm?). I'm glad you noted that a Stormwing would be smelly, anyhow. Yay for realism. (So is Rikash a Stormwing always, or sometimes human?)

Thanks for the birthday greeting. I put it off for as long as possible, but there's no fighting time. **

[mythicbeast]

Oh, those are the ones I have, then. XD I've seen worse (WHEEL OF TIME, OMFG) so they rate fairly low on my 'aaaaaa'-meter.

Numair's thirty when he meets Daine, who is at the time I think about fourteen. The age difference doesn't really squick me, since hey, Yuffentine and Aurikku are two of the pairings I ship like mad, but I don't see their personalities clicking as well as Pierce seems to be trying to convince the audience they are. I'm sure you notice that there are times when the character dynamics seem to be forced, yanno? :P

The Trickster's series is good for a read itself, although I can only speak for the first book. I'm hesitant about picking the second one up because I know who's ending up with who, dammit, and I wanted Aly (the main character) to end up with Kyprioth (her, er, patron god). I'm dead serious when I say they have more meaningful interaction with each other than she does with her love interest

[scratchmist]

I like (understatement) Yuffentine, but I'm not so sure about the other age-difference-is-an-issue pairings, mostly just for the look of them. (Vincent isn't bristly like Auron, or Wolverine, but I stoppeth there before anyone keels me.) I tend to imagine Numair as Clow Reed, for some bizzare reason. It's just a bit scary that he kinda watched her grow, and now they're so fuzzy together. x_x Does Numair get older, though? Because in the case of Vincent and Auron, they don't age so the gap will close eventually (?) And yeah, I get the forcing thing. The love interest just seems to happen, without any real interaction leading up to it.

Pierce reads like a good action/adventure fanfic, only, of course, it's original and published. She writes well, but sometimes it can be so narrative that there's hardly any emotion. (Also, the mention of 'monthlies' and 'breastbands' make me cringe, not to mention anti-pregnancy charms, but that's just me getting girlinessphobic. XD)