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Merry Gentry...
Jun. 3rd, 2005 10:06 amI finally made it back to a bookstore for some light evening reading. I'm still in the middle of Incubus Dreams, but alas, that book is not in stock in any of the B&Ns near me. However, they did have the latest two Merry Gentry novels. While at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shadesong's, I read all but the last... oh, 20-30 pages of the 3rd book, so I finished that off and moved on to #4, Stroke of Mudnight. Oh mah gawd. So much Ridiculousness. I mean, every time she has sex it's a plot point, because the point of the series is to get her pregnant and married (in that order), but my holy god, it's convenient when you can just pause the action and have sex with a hot fey whenever you touch them. (Trust me, that really doesn't give anything away if you follow this series.)
She's doing some character development, which is nice and all. She's introducing new characters, which isn't really a problem for her. (By the way, has anyone really looked at the pronunciation guide? As with Robert Jordan, I'm taking it as a suggestion and not a mandate; she gets some things wrong and she's not going to hear me discussing her characters, so I'll be just fine with how I say things.) I'm wondering if she took out a box of Crayola colored pencils before writing this one and played around with colors to determine eye mixes - you thought the plain old tri-colored thing was boring, so she's shakin' it up.
I'm on p. 179 of it, and I'll be back at the bookstore sometime between now and 6/15, when the extra 20% off coupons expire. I'm not buying it in hardback, but I do want to buy a few other things, some Charles de Lint stuff at least. Also, when is anyone going to stock Incubus Dreams again? Will I need to wait til September for the paperback to come out, or order it into a store so I can not buy it in hardback? I know I'm being a user, reading the book in the store, but I usually buy a drink while I read... most of that money probably goes to Starbucks, since it's their store, but I'm thinkin' some of it gets kicked back to B&N, since my membership card gets me 10% off the drinks as well as the books. I can handle it, though: it's better than checking books out of the library and then never return them. (oh, yesterday's buy was the Black Jewels Trilogy. *grin*)
shadesong's, I read all but the last... oh, 20-30 pages of the 3rd book, so I finished that off and moved on to #4, Stroke of Mudnight. Oh mah gawd. So much Ridiculousness. I mean, every time she has sex it's a plot point, because the point of the series is to get her pregnant and married (in that order), but my holy god, it's convenient when you can just pause the action and have sex with a hot fey whenever you touch them. (Trust me, that really doesn't give anything away if you follow this series.)She's doing some character development, which is nice and all. She's introducing new characters, which isn't really a problem for her. (By the way, has anyone really looked at the pronunciation guide? As with Robert Jordan, I'm taking it as a suggestion and not a mandate; she gets some things wrong and she's not going to hear me discussing her characters, so I'll be just fine with how I say things.) I'm wondering if she took out a box of Crayola colored pencils before writing this one and played around with colors to determine eye mixes - you thought the plain old tri-colored thing was boring, so she's shakin' it up.
I'm on p. 179 of it, and I'll be back at the bookstore sometime between now and 6/15, when the extra 20% off coupons expire. I'm not buying it in hardback, but I do want to buy a few other things, some Charles de Lint stuff at least. Also, when is anyone going to stock Incubus Dreams again? Will I need to wait til September for the paperback to come out, or order it into a store so I can not buy it in hardback? I know I'm being a user, reading the book in the store, but I usually buy a drink while I read... most of that money probably goes to Starbucks, since it's their store, but I'm thinkin' some of it gets kicked back to B&N, since my membership card gets me 10% off the drinks as well as the books. I can handle it, though: it's better than checking books out of the library and then never return them. (oh, yesterday's buy was the Black Jewels Trilogy. *grin*)
