Oh, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter is a lot of fun!
Well, personally, I kind of want to slay the dragon.
Angel ,'Not Fade Away'
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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."
-t - May 14, 2020 8:07:18 am PDT #25854 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Cashmere - May 14, 2020 8:07:21 am PDT #25855 of 28176
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That is extremely true for me, too.
I keep getting Book Deal alerts and buy so many kindle books higgely-piggely that it's going to take years for me to plow through them.
-t - May 14, 2020 8:09:44 am PDT #25856 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's the things an interesting review of and I go to look at them and, hey, on sale, so I get it but I'm not going to read it right now because in the middle of whatever and then when I'm scrolling through my library later I can't remember why I bought it that are my real problem.
But I think that's how I got The Affair of the Mysterious Letter, so, you know, not gonna stop.
Amy - May 14, 2020 9:01:14 am PDT #25857 of 28176
Because books.
My biggest problem is I'm very visual. So if it's out of sight, it's definitely out of mind. There are books on my Kindle I've tried to buy twice because I forgot there were there.
I've a mind to send you Alexis Hall's The Affair of the Mysterious Letter.
That sounds like the kind of mystery I like! I also need to eventually range Jonathan Strange and ... whatever whatever.
EpicTangent - May 14, 2020 9:05:54 am PDT #25858 of 28176
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
I've a mind to send you Alexis Hall's The Affair of the Mysterious Letter. Not a romance, but good lord, it's a juicy, wordalicious fantasy take on Holmes and Watson that blew me away.
Taking note! The last couple of "takes" on Holmes I've read were major letdowns.
My biggest problem is I'm very visual. So if it's out of sight, it's definitely out of mind. There are books on my Kindle I've tried to buy twice because I forgot there were there.
Very much this!
Cashmere - May 14, 2020 9:10:14 am PDT #25859 of 28176
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Taking note! The last couple of "takes" on Holmes I've read were major letdowns.
If John Watson was a trans man, and Holmes was actually a wickedly self-interested, brilliant, lesbian sorceress sharing a flat in a multidimensional city and they are solving a mystery that cuts across time and space?
Jessica - May 14, 2020 9:33:25 am PDT #25860 of 28176
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
If John Watson was a trans man, and Holmes was actually a wickedly self-interested, brilliant, lesbian sorceress sharing a flat in a multidimensional city and they are solving a mystery that cuts across time and space?
Oh my.
esse - May 14, 2020 10:04:40 am PDT #25861 of 28176
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I loved Mysterious Letter so so much!
-t - May 14, 2020 10:07:53 am PDT #25862 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's pretty great. From what I can tell the author's other works have mostly been m/m romance, but I haven't read those. TAotML might be my favorite Holmes homage, though.
Cashmere - May 14, 2020 5:36:19 pm PDT #25863 of 28176
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Alexis Hal is definitely mostly m/m romance—modern. But snappy language and chock full of some amazing representation.
Glitterland captured bipolar illness with comedic elegance and a sexy, sexy audio narration (same narrator as AotML.)
And Arden St. Ives gives me life.
AH's newest is coming out this summer. (Bated breath.)