People find it depressingly "necessary" these days, though I have far less objection to a well-written subplot than to things that borrow tropes from Romance as a genre, since those tend to be unfortunate at best.
The Lies... has sat on my to-read list forever, but it looks sort of huge and I'm in desperate need of low-concentration idiocy right now since I haven't read a book since January. I could carry on with the Temeraire series, I suppose, but those sort of seem to need reading at one go so that you can get up the speed to flash over the plot holes etc.
I'm considering starting the Pretty Deadly series, since a couple of friends recommended it, though the name and cover of the first issue scare me...
Noted, with caution.
Nah - I've rarely encountered it done well enough to seek out. I read...well, here - eclectically, but mostly fringe fantasy if I have a choice, with a high violence threshold if it's done well and a low one if it's gratituous, suspiciously gender-biased or cartoony.
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Date: 2014-03-24 08:30 am (UTC)The Lies... has sat on my to-read list forever, but it looks sort of huge and I'm in desperate need of low-concentration idiocy right now since I haven't read a book since January. I could carry on with the Temeraire series, I suppose, but those sort of seem to need reading at one go so that you can get up the speed to flash over the plot holes etc.
I'm considering starting the Pretty Deadly series, since a couple of friends recommended it, though the name and cover of the first issue scare me...
Noted, with caution.
Nah - I've rarely encountered it done well enough to seek out. I read...well, here - eclectically, but mostly fringe fantasy if I have a choice, with a high violence threshold if it's done well and a low one if it's gratituous, suspiciously gender-biased or cartoony.