Boys kissing in books
Feb. 11th, 2008 02:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI read some more Tanya Huff books, that aren't Smoke or Blood or Summoning series. Still quite good though. Apparently they're early books. "Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light" and "The Fire's Stone". They don't really go together. About the only thing they have in common is there's a crucial moment which is all about the mystical/personal significance of realising it's okay to be gay and one main guy character really does love the other main guy character that way.
I can live with that.
There is, however, a frustrating lack of kissing. I mean, there's kissing, and sex, and quite a lot of it, but not in all the combinations. There's all this angsty yearning and changes in identity and big falling in love and then... no kiss. I sulk.
I mean declarations of love are great, yes, but if you've been waiting all book for the love *and* the kiss then no kiss just doesn't quite do it. Plus until there's actual kissing then the realising it's okay is sort of... academic, you know? Not the whole deal. Go for the kissing! Have more fun!
On the plus side - and it's a really big plus - there's two books with interesting female characters being in charge of their own love lives, and interesting male characters falling for each other as the solution and not the problem, and I'm sitting here soaking it up like water, you know? Usually I have to resort to fanfic for this stuff. But here's one modern and one swords and sorcery fantasy book and they have all the slashy good stuff and a shiny new setting.
I like it.
I also like that the solution in the second book wasn't "Young girl who refuses marriage to pursue magic gets traditional and decides men is more important after all" it was "Young girl has magic and a treaty marriage to a guy who has more interest in the other guy anyway". I mean, since when is celibacy still the solution by the end of the book? Always there's all this melting in his arms rubbish instead. But not here, for she has decided, and he's good with that.
So I likes the book.
Next I must likes sleep, for I have a lunch thing to do tomorrow and already it turns into a breakfast thing if I do not sleep right now.
I can live with that.
There is, however, a frustrating lack of kissing. I mean, there's kissing, and sex, and quite a lot of it, but not in all the combinations. There's all this angsty yearning and changes in identity and big falling in love and then... no kiss. I sulk.
I mean declarations of love are great, yes, but if you've been waiting all book for the love *and* the kiss then no kiss just doesn't quite do it. Plus until there's actual kissing then the realising it's okay is sort of... academic, you know? Not the whole deal. Go for the kissing! Have more fun!
On the plus side - and it's a really big plus - there's two books with interesting female characters being in charge of their own love lives, and interesting male characters falling for each other as the solution and not the problem, and I'm sitting here soaking it up like water, you know? Usually I have to resort to fanfic for this stuff. But here's one modern and one swords and sorcery fantasy book and they have all the slashy good stuff and a shiny new setting.
I like it.
I also like that the solution in the second book wasn't "Young girl who refuses marriage to pursue magic gets traditional and decides men is more important after all" it was "Young girl has magic and a treaty marriage to a guy who has more interest in the other guy anyway". I mean, since when is celibacy still the solution by the end of the book? Always there's all this melting in his arms rubbish instead. But not here, for she has decided, and he's good with that.
So I likes the book.
Next I must likes sleep, for I have a lunch thing to do tomorrow and already it turns into a breakfast thing if I do not sleep right now.