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Book Review
Feb. 15th, 2004 06:41 pmWent to B&N today and read Mercedes Lackey's The Fairy Godmother. Here be my impressions.
Foremost of all, Mercedes Lackey once again astounds me at the fantasy settings she creates. While they can't claim the level of attention to minutae as Tolkien, they do stand out quite well as world-making concepts go. Recognizable inspirations where inspirations apply, and twist and turns that are truly unique.
This time, the concept is based on the fairy tales... of the folklore and Grimm's fairy tales persuasion. Except she's put together the collection of those tales as a coherent world, with it's own trappings that are both traditional and with twists in it.
( teaser )
Other things I liked of the story - wonderful bits of humor with some of the characters, such as the unicorns who go all googly eyed when a virgin human of the opposite gender comes along, the epilogue showing the fate of our girl's step-relatives in her absense, the wonderfully crafted characters both main and supporting...
The only thing I didn't like about the book was the cover art. Ugly as heck. What was the artist thinking?!?
Other news - Read through RK#3. Watsuki refers to the storyline as the "Megumi Arc", so I guess it does qualify as a storyarc. Ken-san is as cute as ever. Also, I think I actually prefer the scanlation wording to Viz's translations. It makes more sense in conjunction with the pictures.
Reread PSoH #4 and bought it. I'm just so easy for that series. :p
Foremost of all, Mercedes Lackey once again astounds me at the fantasy settings she creates. While they can't claim the level of attention to minutae as Tolkien, they do stand out quite well as world-making concepts go. Recognizable inspirations where inspirations apply, and twist and turns that are truly unique.
This time, the concept is based on the fairy tales... of the folklore and Grimm's fairy tales persuasion. Except she's put together the collection of those tales as a coherent world, with it's own trappings that are both traditional and with twists in it.
( teaser )
Other things I liked of the story - wonderful bits of humor with some of the characters, such as the unicorns who go all googly eyed when a virgin human of the opposite gender comes along, the epilogue showing the fate of our girl's step-relatives in her absense, the wonderfully crafted characters both main and supporting...
The only thing I didn't like about the book was the cover art. Ugly as heck. What was the artist thinking?!?
Other news - Read through RK#3. Watsuki refers to the storyline as the "Megumi Arc", so I guess it does qualify as a storyarc. Ken-san is as cute as ever. Also, I think I actually prefer the scanlation wording to Viz's translations. It makes more sense in conjunction with the pictures.
Reread PSoH #4 and bought it. I'm just so easy for that series. :p
