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⌈ Secret Post #3045 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Fanfic Pet Peeves

[(Anonymous)]

One of my favourite things about Barbara Hambly's Asher Vampire Series is that when the main character has his wife threatened by a vampire so that he'll do what the vampire wants, the first thing he does is tell her about it. The first chance he gets where the vamp isn't looming over his shoulder, he sits his wife down and tells her the situation, so that a) she'll know what danger she's in, and b) she can work on it while he's busy being vampire dogsbody.

It was amazing, and saved so much cheap angst. You so rarely see that with 'love interest is threatened by the baddie' plots.

Re: Fanfic Pet Peeves

[forgottenjester]

Wow.

That, and I am not being sarcastic right now, sounds fucking magical.

Holy shit. See, that is what a good partner DOES. COMMUNICATION!

Re: Fanfic Pet Peeves

[(Anonymous)]

It is. It so is. He tells her in chapter four, mostly because he was busy being kidnapped for the first three. Immediately, straight out the gate, literally the first chance he gets, he tells her. She knows how to fight because of that, afterwards. She tracks down vampire lairs via paperwork while he's getting mauled across half of Europe. They're partners. It's so thoroughly amazing, and it seriously shocked me the first time I read Those Who Hunt The Night (the first book). Like, when does that happen? When does the hero sit down and talk about the situation with his threatened loved one?

And it isn't a once-off, they keep talking to each other through the four books I've read so far. Even when things get very complicated later on, and they get increasingly involved with one particular vampire, and there's room for all sorts of jealousy and misunderstandings, they keep talking. They wait for each other to explain. They back each other up, and forgive each other their choices. When one of them walks (or is forced) into danger, the other one strives to get them back out. They just ... they stick together, even when they've got most of a continent between them, and they work through whatever happens cards-on-the-table from the get-go. It's amazing.

I mean, the books themselves might or might not be everyone's cup of tea, the writing is very uneven in places, and it vacillates a bit uncertainly between turn-of-the-century vampire detection and spy-thriller-with-bonus-vampires, but for James and Lydia's relationship on its own, I would recommend them to anyone.

Re: Fanfic Pet Peeves

[forgottenjester]

Wow, it sounds like the writer actually wrote them as fucking people.

Sounds like a nice read.