Re: Recently Read - July, 2006

In article <e9g1bu$b38$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Joe Bernstein <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1153102454.686139.146940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
sienamystic <sienamystic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jack Tingle wrote:

I'll definitely read the next book. This is the best pulp fantasy
since Jo Baldwin started her 'Weather Warden' series. Maybe even
better. How can you not like a story that makes the blood-sucking
vampire Mistress more sympathetic than the fundie Senator?

I enjoy the setting of the Weather Warden books, but took a strong
dislike to the main character which has kept me from rereading the two
I have, or seeking out more of them (if there are more). She seemed to
teeter precariously on that Mary Sue edge, and her preoccupation with
clothing just didn't interest me at all.

Assuming y'all both mean the "Rachel Caine" [1] books, I find myself
... perplexed by Jack Tingle's admiration. I actually skimmed at least
the third book, if not the fourth, trying to figure out whether the
plot, which mildly interested me, ever went anywhere; but it just
seemed to keep getting more and more tightly twisted in escalations
of "Everyone loves me and I'm extra-super-powerful but still everyone
wants to kill me". [2] Yuck.

I really liked the first book--it seemed like a return to golden age
pacing, with something new happening every three pages.

2 and 3 were good enough. I'm not enthusiastic about 4--I want to
see the main character out doing dramatic things, not tangled up
with difficult family members and drained energy.
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