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I feel like it's my patriotic duty to review The Hidden Stars by Madeline Howard/Top-Secretly Teresa Edgerton in such a way that you will want to go buy it. But every time I try to start, I end up with some variation on this sentence:
Goddamnit woman, if you hadn't written Goblin Moon...!
So there's a problem.
( 'All giant serpents will be fitted with sports goggles to prevent eye injuries.' )
When I was babbling at my mom trying to explain my annoyance with my recent purchase, it kind of inevitably occurred to me that this is Edgerton's first novel since 9/11 (because I just assume that everyone is depressed by the same things as I am) - there are a lot of scenes of military guys looking at each other grimly, and by that I mean, a lot lot. In the book, the thing that's finally going to kill everybody is ancient, indestructible monsters buried sleeping all over the world, which the bad guys have started to wake up. Maybe it's just me, but I can't help suspecting what those monsters are supposed to be.
I already said I didn't think it was subtle.
I'm going to read the rest of the series, because, well... because that's how it works. But I'm still going to bitch about it on the internet! You can make me buy icky books, Teresa Edgerton - but no force on earth can stop me from whining on LiveJournal.
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(The names in this entry were edited 2006/06/13 because I noticed Edgerton was no longer being required to keep it private that she was Howard. She technically was when I first posted this (though she cheated mentioning it on her message board), so I kept her real name out, except for a nofollow link to TeresaEdgerton.com. I bothered to edit it because I'm procrastinating on stuff right now.)
Goddamnit woman, if you hadn't written Goblin Moon...!
So there's a problem.
( 'All giant serpents will be fitted with sports goggles to prevent eye injuries.' )
When I was babbling at my mom trying to explain my annoyance with my recent purchase, it kind of inevitably occurred to me that this is Edgerton's first novel since 9/11 (because I just assume that everyone is depressed by the same things as I am) - there are a lot of scenes of military guys looking at each other grimly, and by that I mean, a lot lot. In the book, the thing that's finally going to kill everybody is ancient, indestructible monsters buried sleeping all over the world, which the bad guys have started to wake up. Maybe it's just me, but I can't help suspecting what those monsters are supposed to be.
I already said I didn't think it was subtle.
I'm going to read the rest of the series, because, well... because that's how it works. But I'm still going to bitch about it on the internet! You can make me buy icky books, Teresa Edgerton - but no force on earth can stop me from whining on LiveJournal.
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(The names in this entry were edited 2006/06/13 because I noticed Edgerton was no longer being required to keep it private that she was Howard. She technically was when I first posted this (though she cheated mentioning it on her message board), so I kept her real name out, except for a nofollow link to TeresaEdgerton.com. I bothered to edit it because I'm procrastinating on stuff right now.)
