Fantasy Fiction

[comfortablynumb]

Got my new Charlaine Harris book in the mail the other day. Just started reading it. It's been so long since I read the last one, I'm having to do a lot of mental catching up. Hope it was worth the wait.

ETA: Ok. Just finished it and I did enjoy it. Now I can't wait for the next one. Boo.

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I just read it, too. I had forgotten it was getting to be about time for a new Charlaine Harris, and then I saw it out at Borders for 30% off while I was Mother's Day shopping. I was going to say it seemed a little light on plot, but I mean, things did happen, the pacing was just...weird. Or something. But I was sufficiently entertained for a couple hours, which is all I require from CH. >>>But I like Eric, so I'm pretty much easy to please. These are my trashy reads. (Although if a guy never again refers to the size of his own massive penis in any sex scene I read ever, I'm okay with that. Come on.) I'm glad that Sookie's love life is getting a little more (relatively) streamlined, though. By the time Quinn showed up it was just ridiculous. My one gripe - don't set up a torture scene if you're absolutely unwilling or unable to write it. I know these aren't horror novels and that the main audience would not want to read that sort of graphic detail, and I'm not raring for torture porn myself or anything, but I was pretty underwhelmed by that scene. It was a big deal, but it read like, "There was torture. It was awful."<<<

[LAX]

Sept 6, 2006 13:10:02 GMT -4 @dis said:

I am so over Robert Jordan and his hair-tugging, sniffing female characters and his bumbling idiot male characters and all the not-so-delightful misunderstandings between the two. They all need to be slapped.

And the fact that in the last one of the series that I read (7? maybe 8) NOTHING HAPPENED. It took like 1000 pages to advance a single day. If he ever finishes the series I might pick up the last book just for closure.

I haven't read any fantasy that's really grabbed me lately. I do love the Song of Ice and Fire, but my experience with Robert Jordan makes me nervous about where that series is going. Please, GRRM, finish it within a reasonable amount of time!

I realize I'm responding to an ancient post, but I just wanted to say I completely agree about Jordan and his Wheel of Time series. I stopped reading two books ago, there was nothing happening. If Jordan's literary heir ever finishes the series I might read it for just a sense of finality.

Despite my misgiving about getting into another fantasy series (I'm a fantasy newbie, Wheel of Time was my first and that experience didn't go well) I was recently introduced to the Song of Fire and Ice series and I'm really getting nervous that this one may go the way of Wheel of Time, and just meander pointlessly with no end in site. My one hope is the over four years GRRM has spent on the latest volume is because he is working hard to keep the series contained and close to resolution.

[Karen]

Time for "pigs are flying!" amazement. George R. R. Martin's A Dance With Dragons finally has a release date: July 12.

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Woohoo! And FINALLY.

[Auroranorth]

Mar 29, 2009 11:42:53 GMT -4 comfortablynumb said:

ETA: HATE HATE HATE Christine Feehan's Dark Series. They are glorified rape fantasy books to me. One of my other co-workers was appalled that I didn't just love them. There are no words.

Seconded. I got halfway into one, hit the rape scene and went, "Wait, what?"

Has anyone else tried Yasmine Galenorn's Otherworld series. It's fun. I wish she'd cut out the "Oh, Goddess!" every five seconds but otherwise they're pretty good. Three sisters, a little Suey but with actual flaws.

[crankykate]

ETA: HATE HATE HATE Christine Feehan's Dark Series. They are glorified rape fantasy books to me. One of my other co-workers was appalled that I didn't just love them. There are no words.

-- Seconded. I got halfway into one, hit the rape scene and went, "Wait, what?"

Is it too late to cosign this? I'm a part time book reviewer, and I've just been assigned the "author's cut" of Dark Prince. I'm only on page 30 and already I'm praying -- praying, I tell you -- for Buffy to emerge from the shadows and put a stake through the "hero." (Spoiler! That doesn't happen -- I asked my editor. Well, damn.)

If hawt vampire lovin' is your thing, might I recommend the Black Dagger Brotherhood books? Same sort of general theme as the Dark Series, and definitely not for the kiddies (if you know what I mean), but at least everything is consensual, at least as far as I've read; in fact, the woman is generally demanding it, in sort of an "I HATE YOU and you'd better take me RIGHT NOW before I remember how much" kind of a way. Also, the Black Dagger Brothers have some wit about them, plus they all have hilarious names like Zsadist and Tohrment and Rhage. These books aren't going to be adapted for Masterpiece Theatre anytime soon, but they're entertaining enough and they're definitely a step up from the Dark Series.

[Auroranorth]

I tried one of Ward's books, but between the glossary and the detailed character list I got confused and bored. She needs to pick one language to write in- and it ought to be English.

[ladyvorkosigan]

Mar 8, 2011 13:05:21 GMT -4 crankykate said:

Also, the Black Dagger Brothers have some wit about them, plus they all have hilarious names like Zsadist and Tohrment and Rhage.

Hee! How do you have a sex scene with characters with names like that? It's not especially romantic to be moaning "Ohh, Tohrment!"all the time. Or maybe all the love scenes are kinky? That might work out. (Or funny, I guess. But it would take a *really* good writer to make that work).

[Auroranorth]

Mar 9, 2011 22:14:49 GMT -4 ladyvorkosigan said:

Mar 8, 2011 13:05:21 GMT -4 crankykate said:

Also, the Black Dagger Brothers have some wit about them, plus they all have hilarious names like Zsadist and Tohrment and Rhage.

Hee! How do you have a sex scene with characters with names like that? It's not especially romantic to be moaning "Ohh, Tohrment!"all the time. Or maybe all the love scenes are kinky? That might work out. (Or funny, I guess. But it would take a *really* good writer to make that work).

I'm guessing you moan, "Ohh, baby!" instead. I never got to a sex scene- the first 25 pages had me referring to the glossary and the cast list so often I put it back on the library shelf.