*bes 2/3 through new Dresden Files*

[meganbmoore]

*sigh*

I do have such a weakness for stoic, lonely, badass little girls with immense power who get all huffy when you mess with the adults they will never ever ever admit to considering theirs... 

I blame it on Eve in Black Cat.

ETA:  And now we have the heartless, badass, mercenary bodyguard who doesn't care about anyone ever nopenopenope and it's just a job, really,  frantic and issuing death threats if he doesn't get her back.

...

Harry, I love you, but can I just have the Ivy and Kincaid show for a while, please? 

The kinks, they are being catered to.

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[booster17.livejournal.com]

Ok, as a fellow Ivy & Kincaid lover, rec me this Black Cat stuff willya? Not something I know of...

And I liked the latest Dresden a lot, though it felt a lot like tieing up a number of plots before heading off to a slightly re-arranged second half of a series.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Black Cat is a shounen manga about a former assassin named Train who works as a bounty hunter. Early in the series, Train and his partner, Sven, go up against a guy with all sorts of illegal genetic experiments. One of them is a little girl named Eve, who's a brainwashed killing machine with nanotech that makes her capable of just about anything. Sven manages to break her programming, and she decides to keep him. She's very stoic and sarcastic and intensely protective of Sven(to the point where people have tried putting him in the Damsel in Distress position to control her) and views Train as a rival for Sven's affections (in the "Siblings battling for daddy's attention" context) but gets all huffy(but denies it) if you mess with Train. Train, meanwhile, is pretty much openly adoring of her and loves to tease her, and is always trying to impress her, even though she isn't easily impressed. It's a very defined "Sven's the daddy and Eve is his darling little girl and Train is that wild son you don't know what to do with" thing.) The main adult female is Rinslet, a thief who works with them a lot and (unlike most shounen action female leads) actually has a life and career apart from the guys. She's also not set up(so far) as anyone's love interest(there's another character from Train's old organization who has a major Thing for her, but she doesn't seem to reciprocate at this point, and there are hints that she and Train would get together if they weren't both busy being wild and free, but that's it.) There's an anime adaptation, but I'm told some character histories and dynamics are radically rewritten.

That's the feeling I'm getting with the Dresden book, too.