Jayne: Yeah, that was some pretty risky sittin' you did there. Wash: That's right, of course, 'cause they wouldn't arrest me if we got boarded, I'm just the pilot. I can always say I was flying the ship by accident.

'Serenity'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


Kathy A - Sep 27, 2006 10:15:51 am PDT #1277 of 28143
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I loved the Chesapeake series, too, and did not read the final one. It was Seth all grown up, right?

Yep. The heroine in it was really poorly written, and Seth seemed to be OOC for much of the book (his evil mother is blackmailing him, and he doesn't say word one about it to any of his brothers, which makes absolutely no sense in context with the trilogy).

Jilli, my favorite vampire romance might be hard to find--it's waaayy out of print by now, since it's a category romance, but if you can locate it, I highly recommend Love Bites, by Margaret St. George. It's a Harlequin American romance that's about 10 years old by now, and it's very well-written. He's a vampire trying to establish a more humane variety of vamp (no feeding on humans, rely on blood-bank sources for food, assimilate as much as possible into human society--his job is late-night DJ in Denver), and she's his human assistant who handles all the daytime stuff. The conflict comes from the society of traditional vamps who feel threatened by his agenda, especially when he tracks down a potential source for curing vampirism.


erikaj - Sep 27, 2006 10:35:15 am PDT #1278 of 28143
Always Anti-fascist!

I think I read that one. Which is funny because not my usual stuff.


Kathy A - Sep 27, 2006 11:38:21 am PDT #1279 of 28143
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

It honestly reads like Buffy-verse stuff, without the woobie-ness. The vampires are pretty menacing.

The Big Bad in the book is a really evil old-but-still-beautiful vamp named Lilith whose biggest regret is not being able to see herself in the mirror. One of the creepier scenes towards the end involve a child vamp--very chilling stuff.


Hayden - Sep 29, 2006 9:54:30 am PDT #1280 of 28143
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Was it here that people were mocking Jonah Goldberg? Because my friend Leonard is a master Jonah Goldberg-mocker.


brenda m - Sep 29, 2006 9:59:24 am PDT #1281 of 28143
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Thanks for that link, Corwood.


Hayden - Sep 29, 2006 10:27:32 am PDT #1282 of 28143
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

My pleasure.


QueenElizabeth - Sep 29, 2006 8:59:03 pm PDT #1283 of 28143

it looks like all three books are coming out in a month or two span (the last book is streetdated for Halloween).

Ohhhh... I finished this book a couple of weeks ago. I'm happy the next ones will be out so soon after! I'm a binge Nora Roberts fan - I go through spurts of reading many of her books at once, and then I have to take a break. Right now I'm finishing the O'Hurley series and probably won't come back to her for a while - at least until the next ones in the vamp love series come out.

In fact it's because of NR that I haven't read any of the books in my to-read pile...


Atropa - Sep 30, 2006 9:43:43 pm PDT #1284 of 28143
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

La la la. My copy of the new Terry Pratchett novel Wintersmith turned up in the mail today. It was wonderful. I really do think Tiffany is my favorite character of his.


Sheryl - Oct 01, 2006 5:03:21 am PDT #1285 of 28143
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

:whimper:

I told myself to wait until the next con to buy Wintersmith. That's just under three weeks away. sigh...


Steph L. - Oct 01, 2006 8:11:35 am PDT #1286 of 28143
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Jilli, I cannot recommend The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl. Even as a huge comics fan, I can't recommend it. "Goth" is code for "emotionally troubled," and Fanboy is mostly a whiner.

Stoner & Spaz, by Ron Koertge, did the trope of geeky-outsider-boy-meets-edgy-rebellious-girl MUCH better.

And as for contemporary books about how high school/the teen years suck ASS, well, I would say that BTVS ruined me for any further fiction about high school sucking. I set the bar pretty high.