Blech, I don't even wanna read this series because it seems too Sue-ish, but...

[thoth_moon]

Biology--dumb class that makes me carry around a hundred-something-dollar really-heavy-ass book that I hardly use and isn't even very useful with the dumbass study guide questions she makes us do--is pissing me off so that's put me in the mood to make a little mean fun of this:

Stephanie Meyer drops new book after Web leak.

She's the author of that

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[amymcclair]

Ah, but it is supposed to be teeny-bopper crap. It is a young adult series (AKA Geared toward adolescents). I have read it. It is a bit immature, but then it is supposed to be. I think it is quite sue-ish at parts, but there are other parts that are entertaining that make up for the sue parts.

SPOILER ALERT PS: The love triangle is not really a triangle. She loves the vampire as a lover and the werewolf as a brother/friend, but said werewolf is determined to prove her wrong. Also, vampire didn't go to kill himself because of the love triangle, but because he thought she was dead (huge mis-communication on his sister's part). He went to Europe because he couldn't kill himself - there is no way to kill yourself as a vampire in this series, so he was going to try to get himself killed. She went to Europe to "save" him by proving that she was still alive.

[thoth_moon]

I know it's YA. But so are Luna and Habibi, but then those I don't think were geared towards teenage girls caught up in the romantic he's-a-centuries-old-vampire-yet-somehow-he-falls-for-you fantasy stuff that seems the hype nowadays. When that comes up I like to mention my Anne Rice preference: Oh, yes, Lestat's certainly hot--but he'd much sooner nail Louis or Armand than he would you!

Okay--so it's Romeo & Juliet-ish dribble instead of InuYasha-type dribble XP I just remember making an "Are you serious?" face while reading the summary. Are the European undead-killers tougher than the American ones or something?

[amymcclair]

Are the European undead-killers tougher than the American ones or something? Well, yes, actually. They are a council of elders (for lack of a better description) that governs and polices the rest of the undead. Vamp-boy went there with the intention of breaking a cardinal law in the council's city to force their hands into executing him.

Oh, yes, Lestat's certainly hot--but he'd much sooner nail Louis or Armand than he would you! I agree whole-heartedly, but I still want front row seats for when it actually happens. I think that was part of why Louis left him in the first place - he wasn't ready for that kind of relationship.

[thoth_moon]

Supernatural Death By Cop. But why would he have to go the next hemisphere over in order to rouse their wrath, or are they unable to fill up Opus Dei-type diligence?

My favorite parts are the different lovers' spats. Like with Armand and Lestat: You're an ass so I'm going to knock you off a tower and basically break every bone in your body, then run off with your boyfriend for a couple hundred years. Or when Lestat was pissed with Louis in Tale of the Body Thief: You won't help me so I'm going to burn your damn house down--*flash to later*--Hey, it's me, I've got the old house renovated and it's kinda sorta big so you could move in if you wanted, since, you know, I torched your current place of residence... XD

[akai_senshi]

Oh, it's like Mary-Sue paradise. A good portion of YYH Suethors have told me that I don't know good literature because I dislike Twilight.

And LOL at your class schedule. I once had a neurobiology class in which we learned that gay men had women's brains (WTF?), followed by a gender studies class the next day that taught us that sex and gender were all completely socially constructed. And I had the fortune of attending BOTH classes with another transguy.

[thoth_moon]

I used to fuck with a few of my classmates in high school, if you'll note my above comment. Because Interview With the Vampire was made into a movie, along with Queen of the Damned (... it has a good soundtrack) there's a fair amount of people familiar with Anne Rice's vamps even if they haven't read the books. So I'll be toting one around with me and someone might comment, sometimes a cool comment, sometimes something like how hot Lestat is. It's fun to reply quite jovially that yes, he is, but vampires are no longer alive so they don't have sex like you or I and even then he's more attached to his fellow Living Dead Men than the Living Dead Girls.

Oh, yeah--based on the hypothalamus, right? But all those gay cadavers (and how do we know they were all gay?) had become cadavers via HIV, so who knows how that affects the structure of our insides? (Sometimes they like not to take that into consideration, I guess.)