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."
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?
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.
All Things Considered had an interview with the author of
The Bridge to Terebithia
on Sunday.
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.
She's
very involved with the weather wardens
though and even though it's
not official,
she's still changing
the weather
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm still reading the Weather Warden series, though I guess its mostly for the universe. The problems you mentioned I've noticed as well, but I'm also annoyed by the cliffhangers at the end of every book plus the recent plot development of "Gee, I'm pregnant, well, sort of, and I had no choice in it. When my 'child' is born I'm going to instantly love her to the point of offering my life for hers." That bugs me for some reason.