The Demon Princess Chronicles

[mulder200.livejournal.com]

So, has anyone read this Lucinda, Darkly: The Demon Princess Chronicles (Paperback)? One review wrote that it follows in the vein of LKH and another said the erotic scenes would make even her blush (which considering how bad her sex scenes are isn't saying much) noentheless I was wonder what you fellow snarkers have to say.

Comments

[ayako.livejournal.com]

Nope and not going to read. The title scares me too. Demon Princess Chronicles? It sounds like anime fanfiction. Anyway, is it supposed to be fantasy or is romance disguised? I've gotta stop using the hard way to find out the difference. XD

[bubblefaerie.livejournal.com]

I haven't read that one but I read the other ones. They were ok, but not good enough for me to want to get this one. Very much like LKH but less angsty.

[christraven.livejournal.com]

::reads an excerpt::

Jesus, that prose is so purple, it's almost ultraviolet!

[cryice.livejournal.com]

This is a review posted on Romantic Times Book Reviews.

http://www.romantictimes.com/books_review.php?book=29880

Sunny is a talented writer who shows a good deal of promise, but this tale of powerful women and the men who serve them bears an eerie resemblance to Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels fantasy series, though the plot and setting are different. Not only are the relationships between the queens and their warrior lords oddly similar, there’s also a blood-drinking Prince of Hell who rules over a race of beings known as the demon dead. Also, there are many references to rape being used as a tool to punish a queen, which is similar to how rape is used in Bishop’s series. Some readers may find these references to rape — as well as one semi-graphic rape scene — problematic.

—Natalie A. Luhrs

I adore The Black Jewels Trilogy, and respect Anne Bishop a lot for coming up with the world. I'd ex this author based solely for the "borrowing".

[librarista.livejournal.com]

I've ready all of the Mona Lisa books and Lucinda, Darkly. At first I couldn't stop laughing because they're Moon People and they are really over the top. But I eventually found the first book for $4 and picked it up.

I think the books are fun in the same way I think soap operas are. And the sex is at least different. But unlike with Anita, I didn't like any of the characters very much. Very meh. The writing isn't bad (except for the melodrama but that's part of the appeal). I've never read Bishop so the world building interested me and was enough to make me look past some of the over-the-top emotional crap. Definitely worth getting from the library, but I wouldn't buy them.

But I am getting a little tired of petite chicks who manage to save the day no matter how beat they are and all the men that worship them for it. Just a little.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

I've been reading the Mona Lisa books for pure lol, and...well, that's all they're really good for. I cracked up during the first sex scene where the hero had CHESTNUT (possibly flavoured) NIPPLES. The Urple is as rampant as erections sorry, rods.

[pearkiwi.livejournal.com]

"So, has anyone read this Lucinda, Darkly: The Demon Princess"
^ I saw that line, and thought this would be a sporking of some bad Anita Black fanfiction. (Like maybe another one where she's turned into a vampire, but wakes up earlier then three days and is magically a master vampire. Cause she's MAGIC!)

But a horrible purple book, with ideas/themes stolen? Almost as good. I have not had the ...pleasure of reading them, and from what everyone is saying about them, if I do, it'll be for mocking purposes, and they'll be checked out from the library. Bah, writers, get orginal.

[gothgoddessrhia.livejournal.com]

I read the short story and was like "ANAL! A Threesome! She went through with it! LKH will be mad she didn't do it first!"

Without a doubt, Sunny has stolen liberally from LKH and others. It was truly a mishmash of different story arcs from other series.

I will not be reading this series. I have had enough of LKH. I don't need to read her plagiarizer.

[andrivka.livejournal.com]

I attempted to read the first book...it was so horrible (plot, characters, writing style, etc), I had to put it down less than half-way through.

[tylergrrls.livejournal.com]

I tried to read the excerpt on her website, but I could get past the first few paragraphs. How can anyone be expected to like or want to read about a character who wanders around, thinking about how she's the hottest hot that ever hotted? Blargh.

Look, lady, we know that your character is perfection personified. But Jesus CHRIST, is it so important to establish that right off the bat that you have to have the character herself observe it? Seriously, who the hell walks around all the time, thinking about how sincerely fuckable she is?

Also, I am sick to DEATH of plots about magical sex. It seems to serve only as a way to excuse the fact that the heroine is having loads of (supposedly hot) sex with every peen in sight. Why is that something that needs excusing? Why take the healing/powering-up and use it to make sex a job? The sex should be fun, not something the characters HAVE to do.

Grrr. I ranted. I guess that's what this comm is for, though.

Donna