Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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."
I thought you learned this lesson like...three books ago?
I know. This is why I am making the pledge in public. Next September I shall call on you to make me be strong. The demon Hamilton shall be far from my lips.
Don't worry, I'll remind you. I'm supposed to do the same thing for another friend who bought the latest Merry book and now regrets it.
No more Hamilton for you. If you want to be *really* virtuous, promise you'll only buy her work from second-hand stores.
There is so much to regret in the latest Merry book.
Because you know what her Magical Goddess-Given Power is?
She empowers other Sidhe by sexing them up. Seriously. Sleep with Merrie, get your mystical powers back. Except that no sleeping is possible. The Goddess asks her to kill a Sidhe so he can be resurrected, and she says, no, I want to sex him up instead. And does.
She talks a lot about having the Hand Of Flesh And Blood, but it's more like the Yoni of Taser.
Heck, I not only don't buy her at all, I've stopped reading her. Unless something interesting happens to--crap, what's his name, the young werewolf who will occasionally call Anita an idiot to her face.
Oh, I'm sure Anita sleeps with him, but that's not what I call interesting.
I'm beginning to wonder if Obsidian Butterfly was ghost-written or just an old manuscript left over from the early days, when she remembered plot is good.
that's not what I call interesting
Agreed.
If she writes another book like Obsidian Butterfly, with Anita and Edward and no sex and no damned werewolves and weremonkeys and weresquirrels -- then I'll read it. But otherwise -- ugh.
t edit Heh. Obsidian Butterfly x-post.
the young werewolf who will occasionally call Anita an idiot to her face.
Jason? I liked him.
Is the latest Merry book the third, or has she turned out a fourth one? I flipped through the third one in a bookstore and noticed that it was 90 percent boring sex, so i didn't buy it.
Heh. I noticed that new Merry book out in the bookstore the other day and picked it up....and put it back down. Glad to hear it was the right thing to do! :)
My fave used bookstore in the DC area is in Gaithersburg--one of those "it's cramped and crowded and you keep going around a corner and finding out that there's a whole other room!"
The Book Alcove!
Er, I assume? Because if there's another one out here, I need to know about it immediately.