Snappy Sue

[catskin.livejournal.com]

Found this on Kit Whitfield's blog and thought of you, Anita.

Comments

[akaibara.livejournal.com]

Anyone else wondering if Anita was the primary inspiration for that essay? XD

[missamii.livejournal.com]

I'm sure she was, but I think Dante Valentine was probably also used as a frame of reference.

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

Y'know there was something about that book...

Dante's first book. I liked the story and some of the story telling and definitely the world. But the ending made me think it was thrown in so the protaganist wouldn't have everything and there were just raw rough moments that rubbed me the wrong way.

I couldn't figure it out.

Now thinking of it in terms of Mary Sue-ism and also a writer stretching so far outside of herself, maybe it begins to make sense. All I know is that I borrowed book two, but kept finding other things to read ahead of it.

[missamii.livejournal.com]

I stayed up all night to read that book and then a read book 2 over four days. I love the concept, love the action, but I hate that Dante is such an obvious Anita Blake knock-off. I wish the genre would steer away from these women that are abrasive just to be abrasive. Can't say I cared much for Carrie Vaughn's overly passive main character, but can't there be a happy medium between wuss and super brat?

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

I admit that it took me a while work up to borrowing Carrie Vaughn's second book because of the passive protagonist. But then I realized that the character had gone through growth and change by the end of the book; sometimes despite herself. What more could I want?

And then I realized that it was a pretty good growth cycle for a normal woman who ordinarily wouldn't make waves, put in a circumstance where that kind of personality made her almost Omega by Wolfpack standards and how there's a necessity to change.

Which made me think about all the things that were hinted about but never really explained in Anita's world. Like was there anyway to change a non-dominant wolf into a dominant wolf? Was their personality growth? What happened if a high powered dominant man found himself turned by the full moon and suddenly he wasn't a top dog anymore? Would people try to kill themselves because of the dichotomy? Would they try to kill humans cause they could still boss them around?

The questions were enough to make me pick up the second book to see how she handled things. That and getting to watch the Supernatural Legal Status from the beginning

[thekiwiwhoflew.livejournal.com]

Agreed. It went beyond coincidance oo