some more stuff I have read
Feb. 16th, 2012 04:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianDori Jones Yang, Daughter of Xanadu. I am great with the "girl descendant of Genghis Khan wants to be a badass soldier although her society is kind of against that now" premise. I actually would have really liked her later reflections on war and peace, if they had not come in the form of "ooh, Marco Polo, he's so dreamy -- we couldn't possibly destroy his hometown!" Fucking Marco Polo. Seriously. (The author's note reveals that her intent was in fact to write a book about Marco Polo from the beginning. THEN DO NOT BAIT AND SWITCH, LADY. also could white women married to Chinese men please stop writing interracial romances that are skeevy, Kylie Chan being the other major culprit)
Gaie Sebold, Babylon Steel. This book did not look good; I just don't like photoshopped models on my fantasy covers, and the main character's brothel as described on the back sounds stupidly comedic. A Mike Carey blurb won me over, and I liked it a lot. Babylon's mysterious past actually is mysterious and interesting, there are a lot of good characters, and the ending is satisfying. It does partake of a few paranormal romance tropes, but they're treated lightly and with tongue in cheek. Good stuff.
Gaie Sebold, Babylon Steel. This book did not look good; I just don't like photoshopped models on my fantasy covers, and the main character's brothel as described on the back sounds stupidly comedic. A Mike Carey blurb won me over, and I liked it a lot. Babylon's mysterious past actually is mysterious and interesting, there are a lot of good characters, and the ending is satisfying. It does partake of a few paranormal romance tropes, but they're treated lightly and with tongue in cheek. Good stuff.
