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I fall for relationship dynamics, tbh. My "type" is a reserved, outwardly cold older character being friends with an emotional younger character. Bonus points if they work together. Bonus points if they both have gigantic issues and cling onto each other like there's no tomorrow.

I love this dynamic. Especially if there's a lot of drama and unresolved issues in the relationship :) Do you have any specific fandom recs?

That's a word-for-word description of my main fandom's protagonists, fictional versions of A.C. Doyle and Dr. Joseph Bell. The fandom is Murder Rooms, a franchise consisting a TV miniseries and a book trilogy. I wrote a little about the trilogy in yesterday's post: http://fandomsecrets.dreamwidth.org/1016185.html?thread=750627705#cmt750627705

Rivers of London, an urban fantasy book series about a magic police division, is a bit like this, too. And it has a badass black main hero.

Then, um. Inspector Morse?? Both the novels and the TV series; the novels may even be more intense.

I could do with some recs, too. *sighs*

OMG I have that Doyle and Bell thing bookmarked to read! Time I got around to it.

The Monstrumologist series off the top of my mind fits this relationship dynamic too. Plus, one of the characters is undoubtedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes/Joseph Bell and it takes place in late 19th century.

The Monstrumologist series off the top of my mind fits this relationship dynamic too. Plus, one of the characters is undoubtedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes/Joseph Bell and it takes place in late 19th century.

WHAT. How come I never knew of it before?! This sounds like something I would eat with a spoon. Thank you so very, very much.

~~and haha great my evil plan is succeeding~~

I actually learned about it on F!S when someone made a secret about it and there were almost no replies - so yeah, the fandom is also barely existent :)

Anyway, just to pimp The Monstrumologist, which I'm very fond of, it's actually a YA series and is about a 12-year-old orphan who is taken in by a doctor, who is a sort of monster hunter, and he should be the boy's mentor, but really sucks at it, but still they grow really co-dependent while at the same time there are the monsters and mysteries ... It's awesome, imo.

So what's the name of the first book in the Murder Rooms?
edit Never mind, I've found it on Amazon.

Edited 2014-05-24 21:57 (UTC)

No pimping needed because what I'm doing right now is staring at its Amazon page, feeling quietly depressed about the fact that there is no Kindle version while at the same time trying to calculate how many days it'll take for it to arrive by post. That's marvellous, exactly the kind of book I need.

(It's going to be my first dive into YA literature, too).

Edited 2014-05-24 22:01 (UTC)

What? There definitely is a kindle version, I have one.

look

BTW, ever since reading John Green, I'm very skeptical about whether I can personally get anything from reading YA, but this isn't a typical YA book and as of now it's being marketed to adults too.

Edited 2014-05-24 22:11 (UTC)

But it isn't available for purchase? I admit my amazoning skills kind of suck, but I haven't seen any currently-open Kindle offers. Every book of the series is available but the first one.

Yeah, from what I've read/heard I concluded I'd never be much of a fan of this sort of stuff, but to be honest idc what genre something is when it sounds that awesome.

Huh, I don't know, hey, if you want, I can steal it for you from the internet, just PM an email where to send it ;)

I already stole it myself. Didn't expect it to be on the internet, what with it being obscure, but it was surprisingly easy to find a .mobi file. Which is against my usual piracy policies (I avoid pirating from contemporary authors), but eh, I'll just buy an additional copy. Meanwhile a can enjoy the one I have :D

Haha, good work. Now, meanwhile, I'm the one who has to scour the internet for a hard copy of The Patient's Eyes.

Yeah, I get this, I'm also the sort of person who goes to especially buy a book even after I've already read it in pdf downloaded from some Russian website just to show my support to the author ;)

AFAIK that Amazon link (which is also, presumably, the one you've found - http://www.amazon.com/The-Patients-Eyes-Beginnings-Sherlock/dp/0312290950/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1400971559&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Patient%27s+Eyes) is the only place where it can be found in any shape or form. Same goes for TNC and TDW. And at the time of my looking for them, the only part of the trilogy available in a digital format was The Night Calls. This trilogy cost me weeks of waiting and dying of suspense.

But that was quite a while ago, so IDK how it is now. Good luck! And thank you once again.

Yeah, I'll get the hard copy from Amazon.

Thanks, too, and I'll be curious to know if you like the book (or like it enough to criticize it) ;)

Aw, I'll make a post in the GC if that happens! I totally get this kind of curiosity.

I'd appreciate some comments re:The Patient's Eyes, too, should you have any.

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