See, the fact that the lines between what should be two specific genres--urban fantasy and paranormal romance--have all begun to bleed together, no pun intended, is indicative of what LKH hath wrot. (Wroth? Wreaked? Bah.) She started out as one and gradually shifted into the other, and now the two have become inseparably muddled.
It's like the difference between Janet Evanovich and Jim Butcher. I don't read her, but my mother is DEEPLY into the Plum books, and from what I've gathered they're rather fluffy chick lit. Not that there's anything WRONG with fluffy chick lit, but when it's lumped in with darker, more violent books, then it becomes frustrating to weed through the masses to find what you're looking for. They're like romantic comedies, light and chatty, with an endearingly quirky female lead. Some of them are more in-depth, but some of them, like LKH, are basically Harlequin novels with superpowers.
Honestly, I've tried flipping through the nine zillion parurban romantasy clones, and I can't get more than five pages into them because they all seem alike. I know there are a lot of devoted readers of the genre, but I can't keep the books straight; they all kinda blur together. I think I finished a couple Rachel Caine books (she friended me, and that makes her Awesome), but that's about it.
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Date: 2007-12-06 06:49 am (UTC)It's like the difference between Janet Evanovich and Jim Butcher. I don't read her, but my mother is DEEPLY into the Plum books, and from what I've gathered they're rather fluffy chick lit. Not that there's anything WRONG with fluffy chick lit, but when it's lumped in with darker, more violent books, then it becomes frustrating to weed through the masses to find what you're looking for. They're like romantic comedies, light and chatty, with an endearingly quirky female lead. Some of them are more in-depth, but some of them, like LKH, are basically Harlequin novels with superpowers.
Honestly, I've tried flipping through the nine zillion parurban romantasy clones, and I can't get more than five pages into them because they all seem alike. I know there are a lot of devoted readers of the genre, but I can't keep the books straight; they all kinda blur together. I think I finished a couple Rachel Caine books (she friended me, and that makes her Awesome), but that's about it.