I read Charlaine Harris's mysteries long before Sookie Stackhouse. I eventually lost interest in the Sookie Stackhouse books, mostly because I got weary of all the politics. What is this urge to recreate all the horrors of bureaucracy with extra added blood feuds for vampires, werewolves, fairies and other supernatural beings?
I can handle the Oz Full Monty. I mean, not 'handle' handle.
Xander ,'Help'
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."
Ginger - Mar 31, 2011 5:07:37 pm PDT #14250 of 28293
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
DavidS - Mar 31, 2011 6:31:27 pm PDT #14251 of 28293
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Is Urban Fantasy the genre that usually has a cover with the female protagonist showing her back and usually sporting a tattoo and wearing leather or something badass-ish and holding a weapon?
§ ita § - Mar 31, 2011 6:33:14 pm PDT #14252 of 28293
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Emma Bull is urban fantasy for me. It's possible I'm a little behind the times.
DavidS - Mar 31, 2011 6:43:02 pm PDT #14253 of 28293
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Emma Bull is urban fantasy for me. It's possible I'm a little behind the times.
Admittedly, War of the Oaks is right at the beginning of that genre and it's really good.
EpicTangent - Mar 31, 2011 6:43:08 pm PDT #14254 of 28293
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
I don't care for Harris' Aurora Teagarden stuff, but I like the Shakespeare and Grave series...which are not, technically, fantasy. I've enjoyed the Sookie Stackhouse ones that I've read, but I haven't caught up with all of the politics yet.
Sigh, so many books, so little time.
EpicTangent - Mar 31, 2011 6:47:46 pm PDT #14255 of 28293
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Erin: Walmart: guns, fishing rods, sewing stuff, groceries and a pharmacy.
Hard to control by yourself though. Post-apocalyptic Buffista Island?
meara - Mar 31, 2011 7:34:20 pm PDT #14256 of 28293
Is Urban Fantasy the genre that usually has a cover with the female protagonist showing her back and usually sporting a tattoo and wearing leather or something badass-ish and holding a weapon?
yes. And I've liked many of them, including Briggs, Harrison, and Andrews. Not quite as sold on Richelle Mead, and go back and forth on Rachel Caine. Hate when heroines get TSTL or when after a couple of books they have to bring the big big big bad and the heroine has to have god-like powers
DavidS - Mar 31, 2011 7:39:22 pm PDT #14257 of 28293
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hate when heroines get TSTL
I had to look that up.
or when after a couple of books they have to bring the big big big bad and the heroine has to have god-like powers
Anita Blake?
Consuela - Mar 31, 2011 9:22:30 pm PDT #14258 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Anita Blake?
Also Joanna Baldwin in Rachel Caine's Weather Warden series. I read about five of them and had to stop, and not just because I was bored of seeing Caine's fetish for Michael Shanks laid out so overtly on the page.
meara - Mar 31, 2011 9:36:26 pm PDT #14259 of 28293
Also Joanna Baldwin in Rachel Caine's Weather Warden series.
And it seems Mercy Thompson, in Patricia Brigg's books, is heading there too (in some ways, especially with the "this book's big bad must be bigger and badder than last books!", which by the time you get to book five or six gets...awkward) I have appreciated that while in Kim Harrison's books the heroine can be kinda dumb, and does keep getting more powerful, the conflicts are a bit different, and flow from the previous books, and aren't just "Ooh! NEW BIGGER BADDER EVILDUDE!"