Reading Wednesday
Jan. 31st, 2019 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
copperfyre...let's pretend it's still Wednesday, shall we?
I am now onto the third Blood Ties book, The One With The Mummy. The titles of this series are kind of hilarious: Blood Price, Blood Trail, and Blood Lines, so far. I understand sticking with a theme, but while the first title made sense (blood sacrifices were involved!), the second one (which is The One With The Werewolves) wasn't particularly relevant at all. I'm not far enough into Blood Lines to tell you if it's a good title or not, but I think these titles might be a case of sounding out which words sound suitably dramatic when paired with 'blood'.
Anyway, they're still good fun, I'm enjoying them a lot. I'm not wild about the love triangle that's being set up, but my grumpiness about it is slightly ameliorated by the fact that everyone involved is also incredibly grumpy about ending up in a love triangle. They're surprisingly queer for books published in the 90s that aren't specifically <i>about</i> being LGBTQ; lots of one-off characters are casually in same-sex relationships, and both our vampire hero and our ex-cop heroine are bi, which is cool. (I went and looked up Tanya Huff and it turns out she's married to a woman, so I guess that explains that, but it's still really pleasing, and I'm glad she was able to publish them!)
I'm also excited to drop by the library tonight and pick up Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann and Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich! New books! Me remembering that the library system exists and I can use it to get books! The first is a YA ace romance with a black main character, and the second is... I'm not actually entirely sure, but it was recommended by a good friend, so I am looking forward to them both.
I have still been woefully neglecting Precursor, which I'm about four pages into, oops.
I am now onto the third Blood Ties book, The One With The Mummy. The titles of this series are kind of hilarious: Blood Price, Blood Trail, and Blood Lines, so far. I understand sticking with a theme, but while the first title made sense (blood sacrifices were involved!), the second one (which is The One With The Werewolves) wasn't particularly relevant at all. I'm not far enough into Blood Lines to tell you if it's a good title or not, but I think these titles might be a case of sounding out which words sound suitably dramatic when paired with 'blood'.
Anyway, they're still good fun, I'm enjoying them a lot. I'm not wild about the love triangle that's being set up, but my grumpiness about it is slightly ameliorated by the fact that everyone involved is also incredibly grumpy about ending up in a love triangle. They're surprisingly queer for books published in the 90s that aren't specifically <i>about</i> being LGBTQ; lots of one-off characters are casually in same-sex relationships, and both our vampire hero and our ex-cop heroine are bi, which is cool. (I went and looked up Tanya Huff and it turns out she's married to a woman, so I guess that explains that, but it's still really pleasing, and I'm glad she was able to publish them!)
I'm also excited to drop by the library tonight and pick up Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann and Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich! New books! Me remembering that the library system exists and I can use it to get books! The first is a YA ace romance with a black main character, and the second is... I'm not actually entirely sure, but it was recommended by a good friend, so I am looking forward to them both.
I have still been woefully neglecting Precursor, which I'm about four pages into, oops.
