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fencer_xSo I finished The Demon's Lexicon...
Ugh, I want the last couple of weeks of my life back :/ (I only read on the trains to and from work) Seriously, I definitely would not have ordered that book if I'd known it was what it was. I don't know where I got some "slashy" ideas about the thing, but there was...nothing. I kept expecting that Nick and Jamie would become a thing for some reason (because they were the only two "available" guys, and like I said, somehow I went in with this idea that there was slash, which now I'm wondering where the hell I got that idea?) and god, all the people in this book annoyed the everyloving crap out of me.
I went and canceled the second book of the series...just cause, well, no reason to read it now. Plus the summary made it seem like it was from Mae's POV, which no thanks.
If anyone can give me some SUPER HUGE reason to read the second, maybe I'll reconsider, but for now...meh, a very uninspiring book :/ I've gotten so accustomed to feeling satisfied but still longing for more in the books I read, and this was just such a let down! It was slow and sluggish until the last 20 pages or so, and I still didn't feel attached to any of the characters. Jamie was probably the most real of them all, and he was the least fleshed-out :/ He...was supposed to be gay, though, right? They never said it outright, but all the random comments about him looking at Nick in "that way", and the earring in his ear, and the way he got harrassed at the bar had me assuming.
Spending 90% of the book focusing on really bad stereotypes of "the good boy" and "the bad boy"? Ugh. Add to that the nuclear levels of UST between Nick and Alan--which hey, even if it's incest (if not in name, in reality), I might've gotten behind it if they'd handled it well. It would've been SOMETHING. Instead it was just boring.
*sigh* Now I need a good book/series to cleanse the palate!
Ugh, I want the last couple of weeks of my life back :/ (I only read on the trains to and from work) Seriously, I definitely would not have ordered that book if I'd known it was what it was. I don't know where I got some "slashy" ideas about the thing, but there was...nothing. I kept expecting that Nick and Jamie would become a thing for some reason (because they were the only two "available" guys, and like I said, somehow I went in with this idea that there was slash, which now I'm wondering where the hell I got that idea?) and god, all the people in this book annoyed the everyloving crap out of me.
I went and canceled the second book of the series...just cause, well, no reason to read it now. Plus the summary made it seem like it was from Mae's POV, which no thanks.
If anyone can give me some SUPER HUGE reason to read the second, maybe I'll reconsider, but for now...meh, a very uninspiring book :/ I've gotten so accustomed to feeling satisfied but still longing for more in the books I read, and this was just such a let down! It was slow and sluggish until the last 20 pages or so, and I still didn't feel attached to any of the characters. Jamie was probably the most real of them all, and he was the least fleshed-out :/ He...was supposed to be gay, though, right? They never said it outright, but all the random comments about him looking at Nick in "that way", and the earring in his ear, and the way he got harrassed at the bar had me assuming.
Spending 90% of the book focusing on really bad stereotypes of "the good boy" and "the bad boy"? Ugh. Add to that the nuclear levels of UST between Nick and Alan--which hey, even if it's incest (if not in name, in reality), I might've gotten behind it if they'd handled it well. It would've been SOMETHING. Instead it was just boring.
*sigh* Now I need a good book/series to cleanse the palate!
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Date: 2010-06-10 04:11 pm (UTC)the second book is AMAZING! Jamie gets a lot of action and Mae is wonderful and there are gay crushes and skdj;ljkfd;askd I am not objective about this at all because Jamie is my favorite character and after book 2 my love for him grew by x 1000000000000000.
also just. the idea that a writer who writes slash signs away her soul to write gay romance forever and nothing else makes me really horrified, because i would like to think that i signed up to fandom for good stories and brilliant characterizations, and i feel like i got both from these books in spades. So the idea that fandom is somehow APPALLED AND DISAPPOINTED in the author for some reason makes me want to cry.
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Date: 2010-06-10 09:59 pm (UTC)Like I said, though, Jamie was really the only character who seemed real and grounded and not overly angsty like Nick or overly secretive like Alan (Mae, too, to an extent, seemed more real and like there wasn't anything "special" being thrust at the reader in a desperate attempt to get you to like her, which...makes you like her). Perhaps I'll sleep on it a bit more before making up my mind, since I really seem to be the only one of my friends who didn't enjoy the series all that much :/