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One-to-two sentence reviews
Apr. 25th, 2010 02:54 amThe Smoke Thief, by Shana Abe
There needs to be an online directory of all the paranormals that confuse "Stockholm's Syndrome" with "romance."
Tea With the Black Dragon, by RA MacAvoy
I envy the alternate universe where this book beat out Anita Blake as the template for paranormal romances. There are still problems with the Orientalist stereotypes over there, but the heroes have good manners and want to be nice, the heroines have a sense of proportion and are sometimes over the age of thirty, they all have lives and appreciate tea and don't flip out over misunderstandings, and the stupid and heroic things they do are in-character and adorable.
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, by NK Jemisin
If you've been reading a lot of paranormals with gross power dynamics, then this book wants to mess with your head.
There needs to be an online directory of all the paranormals that confuse "Stockholm's Syndrome" with "romance."
Tea With the Black Dragon, by RA MacAvoy
I envy the alternate universe where this book beat out Anita Blake as the template for paranormal romances. There are still problems with the Orientalist stereotypes over there, but the heroes have good manners and want to be nice, the heroines have a sense of proportion and are sometimes over the age of thirty, they all have lives and appreciate tea and don't flip out over misunderstandings, and the stupid and heroic things they do are in-character and adorable.
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, by NK Jemisin
If you've been reading a lot of paranormals with gross power dynamics, then this book wants to mess with your head.
