What were those books, anyway?

[meganbmoore]

Books I'm taking are in bold. 

Regency Buffy.16 (42.1%) A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

Gossip Girl does 1899. 6 (15.8%) The Luxe by Anna Godberson*

Elizabethan fantasy with dueling mortal and fae courts. 13 (34.2%) Midnight Never Come by Marie BRennan

It's like James Bond with magic. Except for the "unlikable bastard" part. And with a girlfriend who will kill him if he thinks about it. 13 (34.2%) Daemons Are Forever by Simon R. Green

Sequel to Jane Austen With Magic 8 (21.1%) The Grand Tour by Caroline Stevermer and Patricia Wrede

Narcissistic sorcerer and cursed girl 11 (28.9%) Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Otherworld invades SFF con 9 (23.7%) Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones

According to the cover art, she went to the river to get Moses, but found a sword instead. 7 (18.4%) The Broken Crown by Michelle West

YA retelling of 6 fairy tales 5 (13.2%) Princess Tales by Gail Carson Levine**

Sequel to trope twisting urban fantasy drowning in celtic mythology where most of the characters were bisexual. Well, the women, at least... 5 (13.2%) Whiskey and Water by Elizabeth Bear

That trope twisting fantasy with dual narratives that everyone drools over. 6 (15.8%) Melusine by Sarah Monette

Young god in love with mortal trying to save herself from being sacrificed to another god. 6 (15.8%) Ever by Gail Carson Levine**

Gaslight fantasy/mystery/revenge in pseudo-Europe. 18 (47.4%) The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells

Kinda sounds like A Song of Ice and Fire, but with walls of shadow or some such. 4 (10.5%) Shadowmarch by Tad Levine

Book 5 or so of conartist dampyr and elven assassin team turned heroes. 3 (7.9%) Rebel Fae by Barb and C.J. Hendee

*Didn’t “win,” but calixa and oxymoronassoc won’t forgive me if I don’t read it promptly
**Still. Not. Here. 

*wonders who would want to change their votes now*

(And I'll likely come home and grab more over the weekend.)

Comments

I knew it was Howl's Moving Castle!

[calledinvain.livejournal.com]

:D I can't wait until you read it.

Re: I knew it was Howl's Moving Castle!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Ithinkthat it was Howl was discussed in the comments, actually.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Oh! Hahahaha! I thought Regency Buffy was Colleen Gleason's Gardella Chronicles. Mostly because Libba Bray's Gemma Doyle trilogy takes place in Victorian England. And there are no vampires.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

WHAT!!?!?

I HAVE BEEN DECEIVED!!!!

I HAVE SEEN PEOPLE CALL THEM REGENCY BUFFY!!!

(I even asked one of the people who called it that if they were sure, because the outfits looked more Victorian and I thought it was something else that was regency Buffy...)

Then...then...what are the Brays?

*actually, I prefer Victorian...*

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Magical girl boarding school from a cynical, feminist angle.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Were they well received int he house of Vern?

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Yes but I will qualify that statement. There are moments where you will want to strangle the characters. I'm 98% sure it was intentional on Bray's part but wow, yeah, you will want to choke each of the characters at one point or another. Usually way more than one point or another. Since I personally find I want to strangle characters more often than not, this didn't bother me but I can see how it'd aggravate other people.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Regency Buffy? Clearly I have missed some important posts in your journal!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

BUT IT IS NOT!

I WAS DECEIVED!

THERE IS EVEN A POST DEVOTED TO MY HAVING BEEN DECEIVED!

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

*takes notes*