Stained Glass Heart and Skyfall

[samvara]

• Stained Glass Heart by Catherine Asaro. Short story. Farmboy with a passion for dancing who is actually an interstellar prince runs into trouble when a marriage is arranged to a hot, but older General who does not love him. Fun, silly, I find I have less sympathy for men when the gender roles are reversed, I'll work on that.
• Skyfall by Catherine Asaro. Chronologically this is book one of the Skolian saga and ninth written so it seemed liked a good entry point. I came in expecting science fiction or maybe space opera and wasn’t quite prepared for cracktastic romance. I am gonna swipe part of a review I read because it’s so perfect Roca, psion queen and ballerina(!) with the body of a porn star is swept away by hunky barbarian on horseback. Please note this is a genetically modified purple horse with prismatic horns.

Comments

[sara]

Hee. My mom is totally into those, and therefore they're the sort of thing I read when I'm stuck up at their house for some reason. VERY CRACKY. Some of them are good, some of them are not so good, but they manage to mix math, dancing, and TONS UPON TONS OF CRACK into a series of weird little packages.

[samvara]

Hee, weird little packages is an excellent description :)

I'm thinking of going through my 'unread' pile by gender then by alphabet, the next couple of months should be interesting!

Next up: Patricia Briggs and Mary Brown.

[sara]

I haven't read Brown; Briggs, I liked her dragon novels (well, except that it was obvious that the actual-romance there was the slashy relationship, and yet there was a het romance which was the ostensible relationship, and...I thought everyone involved deserved more honesty, TBH), but her supernaturals definitely suffer from the Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor problem.

[samvara]

Briggs: I'm about 1/3 of the way through the first dragon book and loving it so far.

Brown: I've read The Unlikely Ones which I would class as in the same league as Robin McKinley's Rose Daughter. This is praise btw :) I'm going to attempt Pigs Don't Fly: But Dragons do... and see how it goes.

Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor problem: thank you for this phrase, I've just watched it on youtube and I'm suitably edumacated :p

[sara]

Yeah, I thought the first one worked pretty well.

I am very fond of FOTC. And that is the best way I can think of to characterize that particular narrative problem in paranormal romance (that is totally one of Laurel Hamilton's problems...one of them...not all of them....)

[psycho-tabby.livejournal.com]

Cracktastic is certainly the word. Hmmmmm there is one somewhere there in the series that has a very isolated planet that females rule and everything revolves around a game played with small blocks. One of the royal family - from that physic family crash lands on this planet and pretty much gets taken to be a slave and just play this game, which works out everything , politics, rukers, how much land you have, and ends up influencing the whole planets game play.

I think I must have read it at the end of highschool. Very cracktasic but I found it fun.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

It was fun, but I'm not feeling a need to read more.