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You know an author's gotten deep into your head when reading her books and watching the characters make choices that you know aren't going to go well makes you physically nauseated.

So it is for Melissa Marr. I loved her first book, Wicked Lovely, though I felt that the ending was abrupt (which I later discovered was because, hah, it's a series). The second one, Ink Exchange, twisted me up badly and I almost didn't read the next one, Fragile Eternity.

Which finally came in at the library today, and I have now finished. It didn't hit me quite as hard as IE, but still, the physical reaction to the characters making bad choices is there. The longer I go on, the less I can accept the stupid decisions by characters who should know better, and the more I feel like I was misled into the series. I understand, timeline wise, why WL had to come first, but it introduced, and made me care about, a character who has since been turned more and more into a flighty can't hold her own kind of character, which I really resent. The fourth book (yet untitled) is in revisions and will, I hope, come out in the next year or so.


(This happens to me with TV shows very rarely, too. BSG did it)
In the meantime, I'm going looking for something more cheerful to read. And a fan. And maybe a popsicle or a Klondike bar.

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Per our earlier conversation, bookelfe, it turns out that Esther Friesner's Helen of Troy JFic is exactly what I needed after Fragile Eternity. I think you'd like these books(Nobody's Princess and Nobody's Prize). Helen is spunky and snarky and plays with swords and there's even several boy sidekicks and some lesbian subtext. And some rather delightful reinterpreting of mythology.

And she's doing Nefertiti next! Yay reinterpreted Egyptian history!

(Can't sleep, nightmares'll eat me...)