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meganbmoore) wrote2008-08-02 05:48 pm
meganbmoore) wrote2008-08-02 05:48 pm
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Chill Factor by Rachel Caine
I don’t quite feel like a proper writeup of this, so just a quick rundown of some points:
1. Still no signs of the typical urban fantasy trend of revolving door love interests and constant triangles. I continue to approve of this.I am giving Lewis suspicious looks, though. Not much romance at all in this one, actually, as David was mostly off page.
2. I’m glad Jonathan is seeming to be set up more as a bastard with good points than an angsty woobie, and that he isn’t strictly portrayed as right or wrong in his actions, just as having very different priorities.
3. Lewis is finally given purpose. In the first two books, he was mostly just…there. Now he’s finally a character and we’re learning what his motives and goals are, and what he was up to. The Ma’at is an interesting idea-or at least, the ideas behind them are interesting, I’m not so sure I care for the Ma’at themselves-and has potential, though I hope the series doesn’t turn into them and the Wardens yanking Jo between them.
4. Very, very glad Rahel isn’t gone.
5. Very much not sure yet what I think of Jo’s pregnancy. On the one hand, I’m amazed a UF author was allowed to make her main character pregnant. And still have her that way at the end of the book. I have no illusions about the chances of this being a normal pregnancy resulting in diapers and 2 a.m. wakeup screams, but I’m amazed the “P” word got past the UF editors. It could interfere with the skintight leather wearing and half dozen sexy vampires and werewolves and similar Others lusting after her. Oh wait, this is about the only UF out there without that. (Me? Have issues with the most popular tropes of the genre and be suspicious of anything that resembles them? What gave you that idea?) On the other hand, from what I gather, David deliberately made Jo pregnant when djinn supposedly can’t do that, knowing that’s what she thought. It’s a little too close to a person telling their partner there’s no need for birth control because they can’t have children, when they know they can have children. (Which often comes with a “well, once we’re pregnant, s/he’ll want the baby” mindset.) I think I need to see how it plays out before I really have a solid opinion of it.
1. Still no signs of the typical urban fantasy trend of revolving door love interests and constant triangles. I continue to approve of this.
2. I’m glad Jonathan is seeming to be set up more as a bastard with good points than an angsty woobie, and that he isn’t strictly portrayed as right or wrong in his actions, just as having very different priorities.
3. Lewis is finally given purpose. In the first two books, he was mostly just…there. Now he’s finally a character and we’re learning what his motives and goals are, and what he was up to. The Ma’at is an interesting idea-or at least, the ideas behind them are interesting, I’m not so sure I care for the Ma’at themselves-and has potential, though I hope the series doesn’t turn into them and the Wardens yanking Jo between them.
4. Very, very glad Rahel isn’t gone.
5. Very much not sure yet what I think of Jo’s pregnancy. On the one hand, I’m amazed a UF author was allowed to make her main character pregnant. And still have her that way at the end of the book. I have no illusions about the chances of this being a normal pregnancy resulting in diapers and 2 a.m. wakeup screams, but I’m amazed the “P” word got past the UF editors. It could interfere with the skintight leather wearing and half dozen sexy vampires and werewolves and similar Others lusting after her. Oh wait, this is about the only UF out there without that. (Me? Have issues with the most popular tropes of the genre and be suspicious of anything that resembles them? What gave you that idea?) On the other hand, from what I gather, David deliberately made Jo pregnant when djinn supposedly can’t do that, knowing that’s what she thought. It’s a little too close to a person telling their partner there’s no need for birth control because they can’t have children, when they know they can have children. (Which often comes with a “well, once we’re pregnant, s/he’ll want the baby” mindset.) I think I need to see how it plays out before I really have a solid opinion of it.
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I've only read the first so far, but it's interesting because it's from Tiger's perspective, and he's a sexist moron, so I wanted to strangle him a lot, but it seems to be written that way to emphasize how all the guys of the time (in fantasy novels) were like that.
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It's not quite as subversive as the author intended, I think.