One-to-two sentence reviews

[snarp]

The Smoke Thief, by Shana Abe

There needs to be an online directory of all the paranormals that confuse "Stockholm's Syndrome" with "romance."

Tea With the Black Dragon, by RA MacAvoyI envy the alternate universe where this book beat out Anita Blake as the template for paranormal romances. There are still problems with the Orientalist stereotypes

Comments

[ross_teneyck]

It has been a loooooong time since I read Tea With the Black Dragon, but I remember liking it quite a lot.

I picked up The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms on a rec, but when the protagonist encountered a person leading around a god on a leash in the first chapter, I was all in.

[snarp]

1) It is excellent! Go re-read it!

2) I preferred the thing about Sieh and the sun.

[chomiji]

The tech aspects of Tea with the Black Dragon haven't aged well, but the story itself has - I still enjoy re-reading it from time to time. Try to find her The Grey Horse: a pukha, strong female characters, romance, and Irish politics in the 19th century.

[snarp]

I will look for it! I was okay with the tech stuff in Tea, except that I kept expecting it to have more significance than it did.

[ross_teneyck]

Ditto recommendation of The Grey Horse. Also look for the Damiano trilogy. It's been just about as long since I read those -- which was not too long after they came out, so, late 80s or so -- but I remember liking them too.

[mikkeneko]

Hmm, now I kind of want to read that second one.

[snarp]

Do it! It's good!