The serials are a bit repetitive because each installment has to be able to stand alone. She does the same thing in the Velveteen stories, which are fantastic superhero fiction.
Saffron: You won't tell anyone about me breaking down? Mal: I won't. Saffron: Then I won't tell anyone how easily I got your gun out of your holster. Mal: I'll take that as a kindness.
'Trash'
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."
Polter-Cow - Sep 03, 2013 3:26:51 pm PDT #21334 of 28404
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Steph L. - Sep 03, 2013 4:39:21 pm PDT #21335 of 28404
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Tep, did you get The Maleficent Seven (Tanith Low!) also? I'm a bit torn as to which to read first...
Read Maleficent Seven first. There's a Thing that is probably going to be relevant.
-t - Sep 03, 2013 4:44:05 pm PDT #21336 of 28404
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Cool, will do.
Steph L. - Sep 03, 2013 4:48:36 pm PDT #21337 of 28404
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I mean, a few Things happen, and the whole story feeds into LSoDM (I'm guessing), but...yeah. Definitely a Thing.
-t - Sep 03, 2013 5:57:07 pm PDT #21338 of 28404
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I definitely respect the Things that can happen, judging by previous Things. Odd that that didn't occur to me even when I realized there was, in fact, chronological order to consider (which took me a while - I can't even explain that except that literally all I knew about The Maleficent Seven until I had it in my hands was that people who bought Last Stand of Dead Men also bought it (and who the author is, of course))
Steph L. - Sep 03, 2013 6:10:24 pm PDT #21339 of 28404
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Is your Maleficent Seven book the hardcover with the pictures on the inside covers of the bad guys (front cover) and good guys (back cover)? I kept flipping back and forth between the text and the covers as more characters were introduced, so I could figure out who was who (some are obvious from the start, of course, like Tanith and Billy Ray Sanguine).
-t - Sep 03, 2013 6:22:59 pm PDT #21340 of 28404
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It is! Ooh, that'll be a treat.
WindSparrow - Sep 03, 2013 7:01:39 pm PDT #21341 of 28404
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I don't mind the repetition on the serials because it saves me the fuss and bother of going back to reread the previous chapter.
Steph L. - Sep 04, 2013 2:42:11 pm PDT #21342 of 28404
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
New Skulduggery Pleasant is in my hot little hands!
hippocampus - Sep 04, 2013 3:49:58 pm PDT #21343 of 28404
not your mom's socks.
I have Aliette de Bodard's Servant of the Underworld, Seanan's Rosemary & Rue, and two more! And zero time to read. wahoooo.