Blood Ties! and books read...

[lillian13]

I am so in love with Blood Ties it isn't even funny. I loved the books, and they've done an excellent job of translating the feel of them to TV. It's so refreshing to have a vampire who's not angsting over being a vampire*. He likes being a vampire. To have a hot, tough, female lead who snarks right back at the vampire, and who keeps both said very hot vampire and equally hot ex-partner at arms' length, while being kinda bitchy about it.  Tanya Huff has a blog about it too...she's also on LJ as

andpuff.

Where's all the cool Highlander/Buffy/Angel/Supernatural crossover fic for this fandom? If anyone knows where it is, please point it out to me.

Books: I finished Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay. Maybe I'm getting older, but the best bits of this were the descriptions of the Provence countryside and history. I did enjoy the shout-outs to the Fionvar Tapestry, but the actual story left me a little blah.

Finished Unshapely Things by Mark del Franco. Pretty good premise (druid lost his powers, works with the police, interesting AU), it really begs for a sequel. Solid, interesting, and I'll probably pick up the next one.

I'm starting to re-read the Steven Erikson Malazan Book of the Fallen series, since the next one comes out in 3 weeks, and I have an order in with Edge Books for the next British hardback. Yes, they're that good! (A friend lent me the first one and about .000001 seconds after finishing it I went online to order the next 3 from amazon.co.uk. (This was before they were available here.) These are long, dense, plotty, tough, keep-up-I'll-only-explain-this-once fantasy novels that are totally wonderful. Not cute, no simple, easy answers, people die, things from the first book show up 4,000 pages later (literally). This is some of the best BFF (Big Fat Fantasy) out there, and it's not written for slackers. Highly recommended!

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There is an incubus in the latest episode. He's really hot and funny....and he's played by Craig Veroni! Peter Grodin! And he's seriously hot, and you get to see him without his shirt for most of the episode! (And he and Henry Fitzroy, the vampire, share this hilarious bonding moment about how women have changed over the last couple of hundred years. I so wanted Duncan McLeod to be there...)