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Well, I'm supposed to be focusing on the Adults' List. But I did want to read Holly Black's Tithe, so I did. It's very good. Raw, but, oddly, with the flaw of being too slick in places. The author overuses "smirked". I asked ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mnemex what made it good. He said that Charles De Lint's books, like his Jack books, are what White Wolf was shooting for with the rpg Changeling -- and missing, but that's another story. Black, he said, is better. She does for faerie sort of what the show Buffy does for vampires -- at least, back in the early seasons. You know, the double level thing. The plot works just as it is. It also is a nice recognition of what a teenager's world is like. Or, as Nancy Springer said in Fair Peril, in faerie stories, a thing is what it is, but it is also something else. The book seems set up for a sequel, though it doesn't demand one. I'm wondering if a sequel would be better with the same protagonist, or with a different one, and I've got a specific character in mind.
Like Kara Dalkey's Steel Rose, the protagonist is a bit dopey. In the Dalkey book, she has the excuse of having no reason to thing faerie is real, or what's happening to her has anything to do with faerie. Also, she doesn't know a lot of what many readers of the book know because they read so many books like that. In the Black book, the protagonist is a teenager, and dumb in the way teenagers are. Or, she acts as she does because of that second level -- take your pick. Either or both.
mnemex what made it good. He said that Charles De Lint's books, like his Jack books, are what White Wolf was shooting for with the rpg Changeling -- and missing, but that's another story. Black, he said, is better. She does for faerie sort of what the show Buffy does for vampires -- at least, back in the early seasons. You know, the double level thing. The plot works just as it is. It also is a nice recognition of what a teenager's world is like. Or, as Nancy Springer said in Fair Peril, in faerie stories, a thing is what it is, but it is also something else. The book seems set up for a sequel, though it doesn't demand one. I'm wondering if a sequel would be better with the same protagonist, or with a different one, and I've got a specific character in mind.Like Kara Dalkey's Steel Rose, the protagonist is a bit dopey. In the Dalkey book, she has the excuse of having no reason to thing faerie is real, or what's happening to her has anything to do with faerie. Also, she doesn't know a lot of what many readers of the book know because they read so many books like that. In the Black book, the protagonist is a teenager, and dumb in the way teenagers are. Or, she acts as she does because of that second level -- take your pick. Either or both.