I really enjoied Wicked Game.

No ,not top 10 , but fun My quick review

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Genre-busting is okay with me, but you better make it worth it.

Imagine if erika and I were allowed free rein to make wicked on Ms. Meyer.

Heh.

Heh heh heh...

Stop it, Barb, you'll get me hot and then I won't be able to work all day. But I wouldn't have to travel, just work my impaired way among the fembots in her fanbase. On a more serious note, I really do find her lack of respect for the women writers who came before kind of appalling...we all owe them. Every time we can pick up a pen or a keyboard without somebody wondering if our uterus is going to fall out, it's because they were brave enough to do that before us, and as women writers we should always remember that.(That doesn't mean we have to love their books, but, surprisingly enough from the wiseass, I would argue for a bit more respect from the flavor of the month.)

On a more serious note, I really do find her lack of respect for the women writers who came before kind of appalling

Well, but look at the type of female behavior she's advocating within that series. I would suspect that because of her faith she has the firm belief that the wimmen should stay back and be subservient and let the menfolk take care of them, never mind that she's earned more money than her husband would have ever imagined in any of his most fevered fantasies. And if confronted with that fact, would just say, "Well, but I never, ever, never expected that my little story would ever get published. It was just a dream that I wrote down. And if it's enjoyed such success, then it's because it's God's will."

Because that covers a multitude of excuses and inconsistencies.

My outrage didn't need two posts. Sorry.

I think it's worth 2 posts, myself.

Jilli, Cabinet of Dr Caligari hit the postal system this afternoon.

I would give you A Look, but then you would pointedly ask how often I've read "Those Who Hunt The Night", and then things would just devolve.

Oh, man, I do love Hambly, and that's one of my favourites. Although my edition is called Immortal Blood, and, sadly, has THE single most inappropriate (textually substantiated, but completely misleading) image on the front-cover. Anyone who saw the front cover and thought "Excellent, that'll be the book for me!" would then be utterly disappointed by the book's contents, while many of those inclined to love the hell out of the book would be unlikely to pick it up based on the title and cover art combo. I'll read anything Hambly writes, so it was a no-brainer at the time, but, wow, her UK publishers did her a disservice with that one. (Although the sequel had a more appropriate front cover, and didn't get renamed.) I'm sure you've read Bride of the Rat God? It's terribly charming also. (And of course I love her fantasy books - although I was traumatised by the sequels to Dragonsbane, and haven't trusted her since that happened. Jesus. And I thought I wanted sequels to that book. Wow, was I wrong.)

No, I think it's totally fitting Barb. Or maybe we're rotten in the same way, but in any case, I'm completely with you. And her take on WH is pretty much the most epic misread I've ever seen since Pat Robertson picked up a Bible, so...

Bride of the Rat God rocks.