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skygiantsThe other consequence of wacky traveling adventures involving lots of time on planes and buses and so on: I am way behind on booklogging. Here goes some of the way towards catching up!
L.A. Meyer' In the Belly of the Bloodhound: I meant to do a big write-up-and-rec post of this whole series, but once again time foils me, so I'll save it for when I get my hands on the next book, which will hopefully be ASAP. In any case, this is the book I was talking about (yes, I am that behind!) and it is so far tied with the second book for my favorite in the series to date! I love when Jacky gets to hang out and bond with other girls, and this book especially takes a trope I love and see all too rarely (rarely enough that I don't even know if it counts as a trope), which is Group Of Apparently Helpless Young Girls Gets Out Of Trouble By Being Ridiculously Awesome. As one might guess from my previous reference post, I especially loved the dynamic between Jacky, Our Heroine, and Clarissa Worthington-Howe, who in the second book was That Bitchy Girl From High School and in this book - well, is still That Bitchy Girl From High School, and demonstrates exactly how much you want That Bitchy Girl on your side when bad things start going down. I adore that Clarissa never softens or un-bitchifies or loses her bad traits (of which she has several) and that Jacky and Clarissa learn to respect each other without necessarily liking each other; I also love the lesbiansubtext!
Which is not to say the book does not have issues - of which the main one is the plot itself. Since it's on all the book covers, I don't think it's a spoiler to say that there's Kidnapping And White Slavery, which is always awkward to focus on when, um, slavery in the other direction was a much bigger problem. The book does point this out more than once, but there are still aspects of the plot that make me pretty uncomfortable - but the characters!
- and now I have to go, so I guess this is not going to be as much of an Epic Catch-Up Post as I planned. Uh. MORE TO COME LATER.
L.A. Meyer' In the Belly of the Bloodhound: I meant to do a big write-up-and-rec post of this whole series, but once again time foils me, so I'll save it for when I get my hands on the next book, which will hopefully be ASAP. In any case, this is the book I was talking about (yes, I am that behind!) and it is so far tied with the second book for my favorite in the series to date! I love when Jacky gets to hang out and bond with other girls, and this book especially takes a trope I love and see all too rarely (rarely enough that I don't even know if it counts as a trope), which is Group Of Apparently Helpless Young Girls Gets Out Of Trouble By Being Ridiculously Awesome. As one might guess from my previous reference post, I especially loved the dynamic between Jacky, Our Heroine, and Clarissa Worthington-Howe, who in the second book was That Bitchy Girl From High School and in this book - well, is still That Bitchy Girl From High School, and demonstrates exactly how much you want That Bitchy Girl on your side when bad things start going down. I adore that Clarissa never softens or un-bitchifies or loses her bad traits (of which she has several) and that Jacky and Clarissa learn to respect each other without necessarily liking each other; I also love the lesbian
Which is not to say the book does not have issues - of which the main one is the plot itself. Since it's on all the book covers, I don't think it's a spoiler to say that there's Kidnapping And White Slavery, which is always awkward to focus on when, um, slavery in the other direction was a much bigger problem. The book does point this out more than once, but there are still aspects of the plot that make me pretty uncomfortable - but the characters!
- and now I have to go, so I guess this is not going to be as much of an Epic Catch-Up Post as I planned. Uh. MORE TO COME LATER.
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Date: 2008-07-30 10:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-31 04:10 am (UTC)(One of the best things about writing my thesis - one of the other girls read my first chapter, and then went home for break, and promptly read every single Bloody Jack book that was available at the time. Spreading the gospel!)
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Date: 2008-07-31 04:55 pm (UTC)(And "thesising" is totally a word. I just made it up, so now it exists.)
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Date: 2008-07-31 10:46 pm (UTC)