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Sarah Monette, Corambis: What does it mean, really, to be bad at pacing? Okay, so if you did a timeline of the events in this novel, there would be a lot of traveling before anything much happened, and some big events don’t have the narrative importance they seem to merit, and many major plot events clump at the end. But (1) if you’re on book 4 of Monette’s series and you weren’t comfortable with that, I’m not sure why you read a thousand-odd pages of her work, and (2) I didn’t care, because I was having such a fine time travelling with the characters. Felix and Mildmay are actually struggling to be better men, and largely succeeding, and there are new characters I liked as well. I understand that there’s no fifth book, but Felix and Midmay are in a satisfactory place at the end, despite the many unanswered questions I have about Monette’s world of gods, magical theory, and lost cities.
Claudia Gray, Evernight: Bianca’s the new student and fish out of water at exclusive Evernight Academy. But things aren’t as they seem, not even Lucas, the hot boy who seems equally exiled to the fringes. I know the author, so I’m biased, but I found this a clever twist on the teen vampire genre, more clever as I thought about it.
Setona Mizushiro, After School Nightmare v. 10: Well, I’m disappointed. I was really intrigued by this manga about a student who defines himself (and then herself) as half a boy, half a girl; I thought it had potential to do interesting things with gender and sexuality. And then, in the last volume, it became uninteresting, and not really about that at all. This is what I get for starting an unfinished series!
Claudia Gray, Evernight: Bianca’s the new student and fish out of water at exclusive Evernight Academy. But things aren’t as they seem, not even Lucas, the hot boy who seems equally exiled to the fringes. I know the author, so I’m biased, but I found this a clever twist on the teen vampire genre, more clever as I thought about it.
Setona Mizushiro, After School Nightmare v. 10: Well, I’m disappointed. I was really intrigued by this manga about a student who defines himself (and then herself) as half a boy, half a girl; I thought it had potential to do interesting things with gender and sexuality. And then, in the last volume, it became uninteresting, and not really about that at all. This is what I get for starting an unfinished series!
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Oh, that makes it clearer! So, I think that's why it felt off: because it is more psychologically realistic, but at the same time I think I was feeling that Felix was off working out his own issues (and pleasures) while Mildmay was just lying there close to death, without them being particularly involved with each other (well, M because he was mostly unconscious), just when you thought they would most be...
And then even though F&M were quite nice to each other through the rest of the novel, I never felt it had the charge of their old, dysfunctional relationship (as it wouldn't, right? and would be the better for that, realistically speaking)
So it was missing the hooker h/c kink juice, and also, most of the co-dependency kink juice that powered the other books...
And giving up those kinks was a kind of brave thing to do--and to move away from the tragic implosion of an ending that the rest of the series seemed to be leading up to--but I could admire it more than I could actually enjoy it...
*likes her kink juice too much* *likes the phrase a lot too*
I see what you mean about hooker!fic. Every once in a while I read one I like--but the fantasy quotient is pretty high--