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Dec. 10th, 2007 02:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethFinished reading the 'Blood' books and short stories.
They put all the shorts in random order together, instead of splitting them up into logical before and after the main book. Easy to print, annoying to read.
Also annoying is... that's the intended ending? That whole become-a-vampire bit was what she set out to write from the start? And then everyone ends up split up and that's a happy ending??? Blah. I don't get it. I got nothing out of that book that I particularly wanted to read. And it felt oddly unlike a sequel, like the center of the story had shifted.
Private detective stories are, I thought, about walking a very fine line between law and justice. That whole temptation to become one of the monsters thing, it isn't just about vampires, it's about anyone who sees that kind of nasty and feels too constrained by the law when it comes to stopping it. But this particular series just dives right on in to the vigilante thing and drags the cop partner down with it. I don't like that at all. Nasty, messy, and not the point I was looking for. Plus the aforementioned thing where I don't think the point of stories about characters with disabilities is to magic cure their disability. I mean, that's not a useful story. It's like... stories with a princess lead to marrying a prince, stories with a dragon lead to... well, lately, marrying a dragon, actually, but generally there was dragon slayage, and now stories with disabled characters lead to... there no longer being disability. Like getting rid of it is the only story to be in. I don't like that at all.
So I'm more grouchy at the end of reading all that. Annoyance. Especially annoying for being exactly what I expected at the end of the previous book.
become-monster and become-vampire being separate things, I can see that is a point. sort of. But. not when there's a mass slaughter leading to sex right in the middle of the book. That's monster territory, right there. Bloody creepy. If the point is not-monster then surely there should be less killing? So it seemed like the point was, in the end, vigilantism-yaay, and a whole side order of justice=killing, when you can be supernaturally sure people aren't lying to you. And that's just bloody stupid too.
But then in the short story there was that bit where Henry killed a lot of people for someone he loved, and then stopped cause a priest pointed out it was not of the good. That's sort of promising. It just doesn't seem to fit so good with the way the books worked out.
Meh.
They put all the shorts in random order together, instead of splitting them up into logical before and after the main book. Easy to print, annoying to read.
Also annoying is... that's the intended ending? That whole become-a-vampire bit was what she set out to write from the start? And then everyone ends up split up and that's a happy ending??? Blah. I don't get it. I got nothing out of that book that I particularly wanted to read. And it felt oddly unlike a sequel, like the center of the story had shifted.
Private detective stories are, I thought, about walking a very fine line between law and justice. That whole temptation to become one of the monsters thing, it isn't just about vampires, it's about anyone who sees that kind of nasty and feels too constrained by the law when it comes to stopping it. But this particular series just dives right on in to the vigilante thing and drags the cop partner down with it. I don't like that at all. Nasty, messy, and not the point I was looking for. Plus the aforementioned thing where I don't think the point of stories about characters with disabilities is to magic cure their disability. I mean, that's not a useful story. It's like... stories with a princess lead to marrying a prince, stories with a dragon lead to... well, lately, marrying a dragon, actually, but generally there was dragon slayage, and now stories with disabled characters lead to... there no longer being disability. Like getting rid of it is the only story to be in. I don't like that at all.
So I'm more grouchy at the end of reading all that. Annoyance. Especially annoying for being exactly what I expected at the end of the previous book.
become-monster and become-vampire being separate things, I can see that is a point. sort of. But. not when there's a mass slaughter leading to sex right in the middle of the book. That's monster territory, right there. Bloody creepy. If the point is not-monster then surely there should be less killing? So it seemed like the point was, in the end, vigilantism-yaay, and a whole side order of justice=killing, when you can be supernaturally sure people aren't lying to you. And that's just bloody stupid too.
But then in the short story there was that bit where Henry killed a lot of people for someone he loved, and then stopped cause a priest pointed out it was not of the good. That's sort of promising. It just doesn't seem to fit so good with the way the books worked out.
Meh.