young folks (in peril)
Sep. 27th, 2007 09:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snugglekittyToday I finished Seaward by Susan Cooper and When Darkness Falls by Mercedes Lackey. Both of these books have teenage main characters with absent parents and weighty responsibilities.
Sometimes I am completely uninterested in reading fantasy, and it kind of weirds me out. "Who am I if I don't like fantasy?" I think, since it was one of the first things I was ever passionate about. (Like, even before sex, people.) Well, times like this, when I can't seem to get enough of it, make up for those times.
Seaward. This is a funny book for me, since I was convinced that there was a five hundred page sequel that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ceelove recommended to me, called Westward, which doesn't seem to actually exist. Maybe it's in that bookstore where all the books that never got written live. It's doubly interesting since the book itself seems to demand a sequel.
Oh, you want to know about the actual book? Right then. I thought it was good. It was more mature than her Dark is Rising sequence (soon to be a movie) and the female main character did better than the females in that series, too. It was short and interesting. I'd give it three stars and I wish there really was a long sequel. And yes, it was on the life after Potter list.
When Darkness Falls. I've been reading this series slowly since7j explained to me that it was less fluffy than it appeared based on the covers and back blurbs. She was right about that, no doubt. So, since not-so-fluffy Lackey titles are harder to find than they used to be, I have been reading this series with luxurious slowness, just like I read Bujold's Chalion series. The first book was great, the second book was okay, the third left me a bit unsatisfied. I think it could have used a better editor. There were too many ellipses, and too many instances of the same word being used twice in one sentence. Also, all of the characters spent so much time talking about the cause that they were fighting for, and how any sacrifice would be acceptable to Save the World, that it slowed down the action. Maybe Lackey expects her readers to not be paying attention, but you don't actually have to remind me about Vestakia's mother's sacrifice EVERY SINGLE TIME we meet Vestakia. I can remember from one chapter to the next. Really. Also, it would have been just as good, if not better, if it were a hundred pages shorter. Still, I enjoyed it, and I did wake up this morning thinking, "Where's that book?" before I remembered that I had finished it the night before. Three stars.
Other things I am reading right now: 2012: The Return of Quetzlcoatl, The Gospel of Mary of Magdala, and True Lust.
Sometimes I am completely uninterested in reading fantasy, and it kind of weirds me out. "Who am I if I don't like fantasy?" I think, since it was one of the first things I was ever passionate about. (Like, even before sex, people.) Well, times like this, when I can't seem to get enough of it, make up for those times.
Seaward. This is a funny book for me, since I was convinced that there was a five hundred page sequel that
ceelove recommended to me, called Westward, which doesn't seem to actually exist. Maybe it's in that bookstore where all the books that never got written live. It's doubly interesting since the book itself seems to demand a sequel.Oh, you want to know about the actual book? Right then. I thought it was good. It was more mature than her Dark is Rising sequence (soon to be a movie) and the female main character did better than the females in that series, too. It was short and interesting. I'd give it three stars and I wish there really was a long sequel. And yes, it was on the life after Potter list.
When Darkness Falls. I've been reading this series slowly since
7j explained to me that it was less fluffy than it appeared based on the covers and back blurbs. She was right about that, no doubt. So, since not-so-fluffy Lackey titles are harder to find than they used to be, I have been reading this series with luxurious slowness, just like I read Bujold's Chalion series. The first book was great, the second book was okay, the third left me a bit unsatisfied. I think it could have used a better editor. There were too many ellipses, and too many instances of the same word being used twice in one sentence. Also, all of the characters spent so much time talking about the cause that they were fighting for, and how any sacrifice would be acceptable to Save the World, that it slowed down the action. Maybe Lackey expects her readers to not be paying attention, but you don't actually have to remind me about Vestakia's mother's sacrifice EVERY SINGLE TIME we meet Vestakia. I can remember from one chapter to the next. Really. Also, it would have been just as good, if not better, if it were a hundred pages shorter. Still, I enjoyed it, and I did wake up this morning thinking, "Where's that book?" before I remembered that I had finished it the night before. Three stars.Other things I am reading right now: 2012: The Return of Quetzlcoatl, The Gospel of Mary of Magdala, and True Lust.