Adora Belle is wonderful. I commend you for your good taste. And yeah, you can make it work in literature if you're a good writer and/or if the story is good. This book, however...no chance.
I heard one of them mentioning a book call Fallen and Let the right one in (I think?).
I've heard of the movie Let the Right One In. I didn't know it was a book as well, but apparently it is. Marked sounds like it's about a boarding school for vampires; again, I've never heard of it, so I can't tell you what it's like. It sounds interesting enough for me to give it a shot, at any rate.
Based on this very thorough review, I'd say that Fallen is basically Twilight set in a reform school with the latest incarnation of a stalker angel and his reincarnated Twu Wuv instead of a centuries-old stalker vampire and his virginal Twu Wuv.
(As a note, I do not like authors to sexualize angel characters. Authors who sexualize angels AND throw out all the myths associated with them just make me wince.)
I still think a more subdued perkiness would have worked wonders on her. I love perkiness when it's charming (like Charlotte from PatF and Miss Hisselpenny from the Parasol Protectorate series) and the author really needs to improve on that.
I agree that a less...intense perkiness would have been better. But that would have involved subtlety, and we can't have that, can we?
Ever also has the annoying habit of calling herself a freak because she wears a hood and headphones, which pisses me off.
*sigh* Sadly, I recognize this ploy from my years of sporking Sues. Suethors love to insist that their practically perfect creations are DEEPLY DEEPLY FLAWED, because that gives them an excuse to have the other characters insist, "Oh, no! Your face/voice/body/dancing/fashion sense/courage/inner strength is the most wonderful that I've ever seen!"
This is reassuring to people who identify with Sues. If the Sue is that wonderful, then the reader who identifies with her must be as well. And unfortunately there are a lot of girls out there who have no sense of self apart from what others tell them they are.
Also, Miles, just ask Damen out, will you? I can tell that you're dying to.
In this day and age when pretty much everything is on the net, couldn't he get such a classic novel online? I read No Exit online not so long ago.
He could. In multiple languages, and with summaries, essays and study guides to go with it. As you said, it's really not that hard to read a book online nowadays. Lacking a book might have been a crisis in the days before the Internet. But not now.
Also, if you want to see how Evermore turns out, check here.
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on 2010-08-09 02:56 am (UTC)I heard one of them mentioning a book call Fallen and Let the right one in (I think?).
I've heard of the movie Let the Right One In. I didn't know it was a book as well, but apparently it is. Marked sounds like it's about a boarding school for vampires; again, I've never heard of it, so I can't tell you what it's like. It sounds interesting enough for me to give it a shot, at any rate.
Based on this very thorough review, I'd say that Fallen is basically Twilight set in a reform school with the latest incarnation of a stalker angel and his reincarnated Twu Wuv instead of a centuries-old stalker vampire and his virginal Twu Wuv.
(As a note, I do not like authors to sexualize angel characters. Authors who sexualize angels AND throw out all the myths associated with them just make me wince.)
I still think a more subdued perkiness would have worked wonders on her. I love perkiness when it's charming (like Charlotte from PatF and Miss Hisselpenny from the Parasol Protectorate series) and the author really needs to improve on that.
I agree that a less...intense perkiness would have been better. But that would have involved subtlety, and we can't have that, can we?
Ever also has the annoying habit of calling herself a freak because she wears a hood and headphones, which pisses me off.
*sigh* Sadly, I recognize this ploy from my years of sporking Sues. Suethors love to insist that their practically perfect creations are DEEPLY DEEPLY FLAWED, because that gives them an excuse to have the other characters insist, "Oh, no! Your face/voice/body/dancing/fashion sense/courage/inner strength is the most wonderful that I've ever seen!"
This is reassuring to people who identify with Sues. If the Sue is that wonderful, then the reader who identifies with her must be as well. And unfortunately there are a lot of girls out there who have no sense of self apart from what others tell them they are.
Also, Miles, just ask Damen out, will you? I can tell that you're dying to.
In this day and age when pretty much everything is on the net, couldn't he get such a classic novel online? I read No Exit online not so long ago.
He could. In multiple languages, and with summaries, essays and study guides to go with it. As you said, it's really not that hard to read a book online nowadays. Lacking a book might have been a crisis in the days before the Internet. But not now.
Also, if you want to see how Evermore turns out, check here.