'Ariel'
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."
What I love about this is that Jilli is saying it with zero sarcasm.
I EMBRACE MY RIDICULOUS BAT-WINGED CLICHES. I OWN 26 DIFFERENT EDITIONS OF DRACULA.
The problem is there are so many direly awful vampire books out there, even reading them for eye-rolling fun gets a little painful.
I would recommend the direly awful books in a heartbeat (what? I'm still alive WITH heartbeat) but this wasn't even amusingly or entertainingly bad (I think I already sent you that one - The Cowboy and the Vampire?). It just ... came off as kind of blah. I didn't even finish it ... skimmed through some and there weren't even any "good parts".
I cried in the car this morning listening to Code Name Verity. Darn it.
I am maybe half way through? I don't have a ton of listening time, so I'm going slow, but boy howdy is it compelling.
I am somewhere in Part 5 and yeah, this is one of the most compelling narrative voices I've ever encountered, and the reader is amazing. God, when she sings, it's haunting.
I feel like I'm missing some of the details of the plot since my mind sometimes wanders while driving, but I am getting the general trajectory of things.
CNV is SO AMAZINGLY GOOD. It's one of those books you're jealous you didn't write.
Indeed. It made me go read some of Wein's earlier work, but I didn't like it nearly as much.
I do want a yuletide crossover of CNV, Narnia, and Montmaray, starting all the awesome women fighting Nazis.
OH MY GOD CODE NAME VERITY OH MY GOD.
I just went through so many fucking emotions on the drive to work today. First, she reveals her real name and FOR FUCK'S SAKE SHE WAS ANOTHER CHARACTER IN THE STORY ALL THIS TIME TOO. Second, the reader fucking brought me to tears with her ever-more-emotional repetition of "I have told the truth." Third, DRAT DOUBLE DRAT MADDIE'S FUCKING ALIVE MADDIE IS FUCKING ALIVE MADDIE MADDIE MADDIIIIIE GO FUCKING SAVE JULIE PLEASE.
Oh, P-C.
t offers tissues
Also, I can't believe you didn't know the narrator was Queenie. Seriously?
No, of course I knew that. I already posted about that. But she's Queenie, and she's ALSO Eva, and then she's ALSO Stewart (and this time she even provided all the goddamn flashback lines to put those scenes in context).