A rant-ish kind of thing.
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freyalorelei's helpful link to the cover of Mistral's Kiss. I don't think any of this is strikingly original, but it's been bugging the hell out of me.
I feel that this is the appropriate time to mention how completely turned off I am that the next book apparently centers around Mistral. I was left completely cold by the character. Actually, that's not true - when I read the line "Are you ready to ride the storm?" I had to throw the book across the room and call my best friend and make gagging noises.
And is anyone else seeing a trend here?
Whether she wants to or not, Anita has to fuck a bunch of different guys. Because of the ardeur!
Whether she wants to or not, Merry has to fuck a bunch of different guys. Because she has to get pregnant!
Anita starts off with a finite group of men. Then there's a man!splosion.
Merry starts off with a finite group of men. Then there's a man!splosion.
A central arc of the ABVH for the first eight or nine books was the Jean Claude-Anita-Richard triangle. Then Micah swoops in from, like wereleopard Guam or something and blows the well-established dynamic to hell.
A central arc of MG has been the Doyle-Merry-Frost triangle. Now, apparently, Mistral swoops in from god knows where, judging by the events of the last book and the title of the next book, screws up the established dynamic.
It was obvious from the get-go that Merry and Anita were whompingly similar, but this is just getting riduculous. It's like she's not even writing two different series any more. And since she's taking them both in the same, bad direction, this isn't a good thing. I mean, it's so similar that both her deu sex machinas names both start with M. And who wants to bet that Mistral turns out to be the one that completes Merry and doesn't threaten her dominance and is her perfect yes-man?
I certainly think authors should feel free to take their characters in new and unexpected directions, but I think that's been one of my biggest problems with accepting Micah. When you've invested, like, nine books in "Richard or Jean Claude??" it's a little hard to let that go in the space of fifty or so pages. It'd be like if Felicity had decided in S4 to ditch Noel and Ben and hook up with the Chinese delivery guy.
So yeah. Thus far, not wild about Mistral's Kiss.
freyalorelei's helpful link to the cover of Mistral's Kiss. I don't think any of this is strikingly original, but it's been bugging the hell out of me. I feel that this is the appropriate time to mention how completely turned off I am that the next book apparently centers around Mistral. I was left completely cold by the character. Actually, that's not true - when I read the line "Are you ready to ride the storm?" I had to throw the book across the room and call my best friend and make gagging noises.
And is anyone else seeing a trend here?
Whether she wants to or not, Anita has to fuck a bunch of different guys. Because of the ardeur!
Whether she wants to or not, Merry has to fuck a bunch of different guys. Because she has to get pregnant!
Anita starts off with a finite group of men. Then there's a man!splosion.
Merry starts off with a finite group of men. Then there's a man!splosion.
A central arc of the ABVH for the first eight or nine books was the Jean Claude-Anita-Richard triangle. Then Micah swoops in from, like wereleopard Guam or something and blows the well-established dynamic to hell.
A central arc of MG has been the Doyle-Merry-Frost triangle. Now, apparently, Mistral swoops in from god knows where, judging by the events of the last book and the title of the next book, screws up the established dynamic.
It was obvious from the get-go that Merry and Anita were whompingly similar, but this is just getting riduculous. It's like she's not even writing two different series any more. And since she's taking them both in the same, bad direction, this isn't a good thing. I mean, it's so similar that both her deu sex machinas names both start with M. And who wants to bet that Mistral turns out to be the one that completes Merry and doesn't threaten her dominance and is her perfect yes-man?
I certainly think authors should feel free to take their characters in new and unexpected directions, but I think that's been one of my biggest problems with accepting Micah. When you've invested, like, nine books in "Richard or Jean Claude??" it's a little hard to let that go in the space of fifty or so pages. It'd be like if Felicity had decided in S4 to ditch Noel and Ben and hook up with the Chinese delivery guy.
So yeah. Thus far, not wild about Mistral's Kiss.
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Date: 2006-04-30 07:20 am (UTC)You know...In a sick twisted way....a very sick and twisted way..I almost want to read the books I missed...It is like that movie from the 80's, "Stand By Me." You know where the body is. You have heard how bad it is..and now you have to go through horrible hardships to go see it.
That is just so twisted.
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Date: 2006-04-30 08:10 am (UTC)You know...In a sick twisted way....a very sick and twisted way..I almost want to read the books I missed...It is like that movie from the 80's, "Stand By Me." You know where the body is. You have heard how bad it is..and now you have to go through horrible hardships to go see it.
Hey, I totally understand. I'm a glutton for punishment. I watched Dark Angel. :)
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Date: 2006-04-30 02:42 pm (UTC)..wtf?
Methinks I've been justified in delaying my reading of ID, because... ugh.
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Date: 2006-04-30 10:13 pm (UTC)From Incubus Dreams:
"...my face was cradled, oh, so gently against the soft warmth of his testicles. I nestled my mouth against that silky skin. The tiny stiff hairs tickled along my face as I licked that soft, moveable skin, More hair to tickle along my lips."
And it just goes downhill from there.
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Date: 2006-05-01 03:38 am (UTC)Actually, now that I think of it, I don't remember much from that book...
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Date: 2006-05-01 05:02 am (UTC)I had *completely* blocked out the second triumvirate. Maybe this is a good thing. We are reading the books with those glasses where you can only see red or blue, or something. Like but maybe we can only see plot? :P
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Date: 2006-04-30 09:08 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-04-30 01:45 pm (UTC)And yes. I will also read because it's like a train wreck and I am glutton for punishment. I hope that there will be at least a paragraph of awesome writing amidst the 658 fucing pages of sex. -_-
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Date: 2006-04-30 06:47 pm (UTC)Yeah, they were supposed to be heading for the Seelie court, and then whoever was up in the crow's nest was all, "AHOY! PLOT AHEAD! VEER STARBOARD, CAP'N!" and they spent an entire 400 or whatever page book during 12 hours in the inconsistently operating sithen. Does that count as an RT book? For real.
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Date: 2006-05-01 03:27 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-04-30 06:41 pm (UTC)And Mistral isn't even a very sexy font.
Bernhard Modern's Kiss...
Mmm..
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Date: 2006-04-30 03:04 pm (UTC)OH GOD MY BRAIN! I just finished reading ID, help me, why oh why!
What was the timeframe for that book? 2 days? Because Humper had around 15 porn induced encounters in that small amount of time. Must...find spork...eyes need gouging.
It was like watching everything I loved about the series wither and die, from one Olympic impossibility of body functions to another, no one’s “Man member ect ect” has that kind of power unless your talking about Anita’s metaphysical penis. *Performs stabbity death upon ID*
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Date: 2006-04-30 05:07 pm (UTC)That said...Mistral as the new Micah? Ughhh, I never thought of it like that. *facepalm*
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Date: 2006-04-30 06:49 pm (UTC)*grins*
You're welcome. :)
That said...Mistral as the new Micah? Ughhh, I never thought of it like that. *facepalm*
It's hard to say for sure not having read the new book yet, but I'd have to say it looks like there's a strong chance it's heading that way...
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Date: 2006-04-30 05:59 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-04-30 09:59 pm (UTC)Mistral must die. He has to. I don't like him and he's dumb. And he had The Worst Pick-Up Line In The History Of Fictional Worlds.
I too threw the book down when I got to that line, then proceeded to read it to my best friend and together we made gagging noises and then started trying to make up pick-up lines for the rest of the guys. Sadly, none was quite so cheese-tastic as that one. Although she had one about Frosty Breath Fresheners...
In my Merry Gentry World, Mistral will be killed painfully by Taranis or Cel, along with most of the guards. In retribution, Merry will kill Cel and reveal Taranis's secret, then laugh as his court kills him. She will become pregnant by Barinthus (or maybe CatMan or Doyle), maybe even with twins which will each have a different father... After she gives birth, Andais or a jealous lover will kill her. Andais will raise the kids. Faerie is restored and everyone has godly powers happily ever after.
And since I may or may not ever read the other books, I'll just pretend that that is what happens.
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Date: 2006-05-01 05:05 am (UTC)This appears to be the universal response.
She will become pregnant by Barinthus (or maybe CatMan or Doyle), maybe even with twins which will each have a different father...
Yeah, so here's my other beef. Is it some kind of supernatural fairy thing that you can tell who's just knocked you up? Or do they have to wait till it gets born and see if it's blue or black or what? I mean, she has never stated that the sidhe know who the parent is, and since Merry is fucking about 80 guys, that could be a little confusing.
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Date: 2006-05-01 08:52 pm (UTC)So, I am guessing that once she's pregnant they have to wait nine months to do some magic Sidhe paternity test. ... Although, would a normal mortal paternity test work? Since she was/is mortal?
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Date: 2006-05-01 03:54 am (UTC)*dies and is dead*
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Date: 2006-05-01 05:06 am (UTC)