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Nov. 27th, 2012 12:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsI sort of don't have all that much to say about Team Human, not because I didn't like it -- I did! -- but because it basically does what it says on the label, or at least on the subtext to the label.
For those unfamiliar, the label says: friends don't let friends date vampires!
The subtext to the label (which is a lot more wordy in translation) says: this is a response to Twilight and other recent vampire-ish teen romance, and we would like to talk about the importance of friendship, and teenaged girls making their own decisions about their own lives, and also, yes, the fact that the vampires-in-love-with-high-schoolers trope is kind of ridiculous, bless their little gothic hearts.
As someone who has often read novels with romances in that made me think "NO NO HONEY LET ME RUN AN INTERVENTION FOR YOU," I approve of all this! I enjoyed the book, I enjoyed the way it poked fun at the tropes without being mean about it. I don't have a ton more to say about it; you know, it came, and it did its thing, and I nodded along, and then it left, and that was pretty much that.
(Although I do feel the need to point out that Merc did it first, all the way back in -- gosh, was it really 2009? -- in her unfinished masterpiece Vamptervention. Although hers went in a very different direction. TAKE IT LIKE A MANPIRE!)
For those unfamiliar, the label says: friends don't let friends date vampires!
The subtext to the label (which is a lot more wordy in translation) says: this is a response to Twilight and other recent vampire-ish teen romance, and we would like to talk about the importance of friendship, and teenaged girls making their own decisions about their own lives, and also, yes, the fact that the vampires-in-love-with-high-schoolers trope is kind of ridiculous, bless their little gothic hearts.
As someone who has often read novels with romances in that made me think "NO NO HONEY LET ME RUN AN INTERVENTION FOR YOU," I approve of all this! I enjoyed the book, I enjoyed the way it poked fun at the tropes without being mean about it. I don't have a ton more to say about it; you know, it came, and it did its thing, and I nodded along, and then it left, and that was pretty much that.
(Although I do feel the need to point out that Merc did it first, all the way back in -- gosh, was it really 2009? -- in her unfinished masterpiece Vamptervention. Although hers went in a very different direction. TAKE IT LIKE A MANPIRE!)
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Date: 2012-11-27 07:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-27 07:17 pm (UTC). . . Team Human is also pretty short, for a book; I read it in two hours when I had insomnia the night before we moved, which I feel was a pretty good choice
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Date: 2012-11-27 07:22 pm (UTC)Also, Merc's is short enough for me to read before work in fifteen minutes bwhahahaha. As long as she doesn't mind not getting a comment until this evening.
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Date: 2012-11-27 07:25 pm (UTC)(Or, I mean, I hope pleasantly. If not, uh, sorry, Merc!)
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Date: 2012-11-28 02:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-27 10:26 pm (UTC);_;
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Date: 2012-11-28 12:07 am (UTC)Haha! Maybe if there is enough of a groundswell of interest, she'll finish it, WHO KNOWS. (Hi Merc!)
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Date: 2012-11-28 12:33 am (UTC)As I know all too well the powerlessness of public interest to prevail against any of a plethora of possible obstacles, I shall make dark sacrifices and conduct unutterable rituals at the great chthonic altars of Inspiration, Motivation, Energy, and Time. (HEY WAIT if you rearrange those the acronym is TIME omg)
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Date: 2012-11-28 04:32 am (UTC)I feel sure that if there is anything likely to move Merc it is chthonic altars and dark sacrifices! CARRY ON, FRIEND. HOPE LIVES.
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Date: 2012-11-28 03:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-28 04:34 am (UTC)