I read Ill Wind but haven't felt like looking for the others.
Inara: So. Would you like to lecture me on the wickedness of my ways? Book: I brought you some supper, but if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepped. Sin and hellfire... one has lepers.
'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."
sumi - Feb 17, 2007 4:54:11 pm PST #1983 of 28174
Art Crawl!!!
§ ita § - Feb 17, 2007 6:46:31 pm PST #1984 of 28174
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Just finished the second book in the Otherland series and I'm not sure what happened. Or why what happened took so long to tell. Also irritated by the coyness around who was the mole in the party, with the presentation of suspects and complete lack of presentation of clues until just before the reveal.
In Literary 2, people said it picked up in 2 and from then on. If I didn't feel any pickup in 2, will I be similarly lost in 3?
beth b - Feb 17, 2007 7:05:48 pm PST #1985 of 28174
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I read the first one ( in the Otherland series) and really liked it. I read the second - and never went onto the third. Matt finished the series, but didn't really like it.
sumi - Feb 19, 2007 5:16:12 am PST #1986 of 28174
Art Crawl!!!
All Things Considered had an interview with the author of The Bridge to Terebithia on Sunday.
sj - Feb 19, 2007 11:36:15 am PST #1987 of 28174
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
sj, I've gotten a lot of recommendations for that series, and I read the first 3. By the third one I was ready to throw it across the room and haven't picked one up since. I've been told I'm in the minority, though.
Deena, I just finished the first Weather Warden book, and I mostly liked it. I thought the sex scenes were very unsexy. I don't see how the series can be a Weather Warden series since she is no longer a Weather Warden when the first book ends. I definitely liked Dresden better, and I am still waiting for that second book to come in.
Deena - Feb 19, 2007 12:05:07 pm PST #1988 of 28174
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
She's very involved with the weather wardens though and even though it's not official, she's still changing the weather
sj - Feb 19, 2007 12:09:15 pm PST #1989 of 28174
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Interesting, Deena, does she get to keep her warden powers or does she use the Dijin (sp?) powers to change the weather? It seems like a bit of a shark jump to me.
I am interested to hear what you didn't like about the books.
Deena - Feb 19, 2007 12:19:45 pm PST #1990 of 28174
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
It's been a little while, but both I believe.
She starts out one thing and ends up the other thing. She dies at the end of the second or third book, I can't recall. And then she becomes a djinn. I disliked the books because they were Anita Blake-ish in her growing powers willy nilly to solve every problem.
sj - Feb 19, 2007 12:23:21 pm PST #1991 of 28174
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
She Dies and becomes a djinn at the end of the first book, actually. I did notice a little bit of the rules changing to fit the situation even in the first book, and I saw the two demons destroying each other coming from a mile away. Mainly because it reminded me of "Dark Age" from Buffy.
Deena - Feb 19, 2007 4:17:37 pm PST #1992 of 28174
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Ah, I didn't remember that. It's been a while and I didn't try to hold on to it. I hope the series has gotten better. Obviously it still has an audience and it can't just be for the sex. I don't know why, exactly, I dislike the heroine, but I don't think, even if this series got better, I'd read it again. I will try the next thing from this author, though.