The second trilogy is a little standalone; with the third-person and the changing character focus, she's written a book which instead of being a biography is a neat little knitting of a lot of separate strands into one. Those are, I found, the ones with anti-heroes and the most pleasing worldbuilding/myth-structuring. But they're also the hardest to get through. The third trilogy revisits the subject of the first, and goes back to playing with genderqueer concepts, the different versions of love, growing old and being a father, addiction... I think they're the best writing she's ever done, and I usually encourage people to plow through the first six books in whatever order they want to get there.
I keep promising myself that A Dance With Dragons is going to be really good — as though I can guarantee anything of the sort! But I'm getting antsy for it, the fantasy market is so bereft of anything decent at the moment I will be really disappointed if Martin just. Gives up the ghost.
Stein is from an animanga called Soul Eater, which borrows a few tropes from popular series like Bleach and Naruto and starts out with the standard Japanese wtf-slapstick, sales-boosting-fanservice humour, but rapidly develops into an interesting look at insanity and goes places a lot of manga doesn't. It's a bit like Neon Genesis Evangelion if you're familiar with that in any way beyond reputation. Anyway, the man himself is one of the adult protagonists and a mentor and teacher to the main characters. He's also mildly sociopathic with an absolute fetish for dissection and a belief that scientific experiment is the ultimate truth. His story's mostly the struggle between the pull of the physical embodiment of insanity in the world and his very skewed notion of what is 'right'. Oh and he has a screw through his head and is named Franken Stein, lalala anime is whack.
Harry Potter darkfic was my life for a good long while (true story, I found this fic because a RL friend who, I swear, reads every Snarry fic posted on the internet, recommended me a Lucius/Snape which I don't think I ever actually got around to reading.)
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I keep promising myself that A Dance With Dragons is going to be really good — as though I can guarantee anything of the sort! But I'm getting antsy for it, the fantasy market is so bereft of anything decent at the moment I will be really disappointed if Martin just. Gives up the ghost.
Stein is from an animanga called Soul Eater, which borrows a few tropes from popular series like Bleach and Naruto and starts out with the standard Japanese wtf-slapstick, sales-boosting-fanservice humour, but rapidly develops into an interesting look at insanity and goes places a lot of manga doesn't. It's a bit like Neon Genesis Evangelion if you're familiar with that in any way beyond reputation. Anyway, the man himself is one of the adult protagonists and a mentor and teacher to the main characters. He's also mildly sociopathic with an absolute fetish for dissection and a belief that scientific experiment is the ultimate truth. His story's mostly the struggle between the pull of the physical embodiment of insanity in the world and his very skewed notion of what is 'right'. Oh and he has a screw through his head and is named Franken Stein, lalala anime is whack.
Harry Potter darkfic was my life for a good long while (true story, I found this fic because a RL friend who, I swear, reads every Snarry fic posted on the internet, recommended me a Lucius/Snape which I don't think I ever actually got around to reading.)