I got the Black Swan Lane book (when it was on sale), but haven't started it yet. I enjoyed the Lady Julia books up to a point, the Lady Darby ones less so. I HAVE started "Deathless Divide" - set in an AU America, antebellum with slavery but also zombies. The protagonist is a young woman sent off from her home plantation to a school to teach her to fight zombies so she can be sold as a protector for a white woman. I've barely started it, so I don't know quite where it's going ... but ZOMBIES.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
Toddson - Jul 07, 2020 6:41:33 am PDT #26000 of 28461
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Consuela - Jul 07, 2020 8:13:07 am PDT #26001 of 28461
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, Toddson, is that the sequel to Dread Nation by Justina Ireland? That was really creative and horrifying.
Toddson - Jul 07, 2020 9:56:52 am PDT #26002 of 28461
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I think it is.
Cashmere - Jul 07, 2020 11:11:01 am PDT #26003 of 28461
Now tagless for your comfort.
It is.
Toddson - Jul 08, 2020 4:37:39 am PDT #26004 of 28461
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
This may or may not be the place for it, but there seems to be a kickstarter for The Children's Illustrated Clausewitz. Although I think many children are born knowing the essentials.
chrismg - Jul 08, 2020 5:46:22 am PDT #26005 of 28461
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Toddson, that looks really cool!
-t - Jul 08, 2020 6:43:44 am PDT #26006 of 28461
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
So, I didn't really mean to read The Heir Affair in 24 hours but here we are. It's fun! Partly for the nostalgia, if that's the right word, for a world in which Royal Family sex scandals would be big news. I went into it thinking it'd be a rom-com but it's more of a soap opera
Laura - Jul 08, 2020 7:18:09 am PDT #26007 of 28461
Our wings are not tired.
Fun is good!
EpicTangent - Jul 08, 2020 9:34:31 am PDT #26008 of 28461
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
I was thinking I had read this but when I went to Goodreads to look it up, it wasn't at all familiar. Then I realized I'm thinking of The Eyre Affair, which is not the same thing at all. So weird that I managed to fall victim to a homonym, even though the words are written!
-t - Jul 08, 2020 9:47:49 am PDT #26009 of 28461
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, funny! Do you hear what you are reading in your head? I do, so I can see me mixing those two up - I think it might be even more likely now that you've pointed it out...