I'm working my way through the Harrietta Lee series by Stephanie Ahn. I'm about halfway through book 2, Bloodbath. It's a series centered around a Korean American lesbian private eye in an urban fantasy NYC. It scratches my Hellblazer itch.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
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."
Calli - Feb 12, 2021 8:15:38 am PST #26441 of 28061
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
chrismg - Feb 12, 2021 8:38:44 am PST #26442 of 28061
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
a Korean American lesbian private eye in an urban fantasy NYC. It scratches my Hellblazer itch.
! You have my attention.
juliana - Feb 12, 2021 10:33:51 am PST #26443 of 28061
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Harrietta Lee series by Stephanie Ahn.
I vaguely remember tearing through these in the middle of "reading everything to escape the real world" depression a month or so ago. Very enjoyable. I also really liked "The Epic Crush of Genie Lo", which is loosely based on legends of the Monkey King.
Consuela - Feb 12, 2021 12:24:13 pm PST #26444 of 28061
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I read Claudia Gray's new Star Wars book this week, it's part of the new High Republic series. Pretty enjoyable, and she leaned pretty hard on the Jedi Code being kind of fucked up and unreasonable for helping Jedi be emotionally-healthy individuals. I am however unclear as to when it's set, other than "a long time before the Skywalker Saga".
meara - Feb 12, 2021 1:12:19 pm PST #26445 of 28061
I dunno about Hellblazer but I’m pro lesbians and urban fantasy, so I just bought the first one!
amyparker - Feb 12, 2021 2:10:38 pm PST #26446 of 28061
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Okay, have finished Winter's Orbit (flare-up of tendonitis in my feet, I am icing every two hours, there is time to read). Politics that were nowhere to be seen in the AO3 version (and a whole lot more of them), considerably less evil monologing on the part of one character, more realistic fallout from the badness that happens to one of our heroes, and the other is still a sweet-natured hot mess, but can believably step up when he's handed something that matters. It's different enough that I'd at least grab it from the library.
meara - Feb 12, 2021 6:27:50 pm PST #26447 of 28061
Thanks, Amy! I'll definitely look into it
chrismg - Feb 13, 2021 9:43:01 am PST #26448 of 28061
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Suela, I seem to remember seeing it was about 400 years before Phantom Menace but I wouldn't swear to it.
hippocampus - Feb 15, 2021 12:24:44 pm PST #26449 of 28061
not your mom's socks.
Re: Ninth House -- I loved it so much. Highly recommend Aliette de Bodard's Fireheart Tiger novella I'm finally reading Alyssa Cole's An Extraordinary Union, just finished E. Lily Yu's On Fragile Waves and T. Kingfisher's A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking and other than a suggestion to maybe not read all of those simultaneously, they're all really good in very different ways.
(from way back, waves hi/not drowing [sorta] before disappearing below the surface again)
DavidS - Feb 15, 2021 1:00:41 pm PST #26450 of 28061
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
[waves to the Water Horse that resides at a college]