[ SECRET POST #3249 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3249 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

....That isn't what Maxine Kiss is all about though. She's literally just following in her mother's footsteps. She doesn't angst about her fucked up past and tries to live as normal a life as one can while being harangued by the zombie queen and dealing with being the one thing standing between a species that will create a war that will destroy the earth.

She's bad-ass without trying to justify it, and she's also got enough weaknesses that she's realistic.

The paranormal races in Liu's books also aren't black and white. Even the "zombies" have been shown to have something approaching redemption. The other species even moreso despite their fearsome appearances and their bloodlust that seems inexcusable from a human perspective, Liu gives life to it all.

I'm curious if you've actually read these books because this complaint seems so far from what Liu is about.

Also, the genre of romance ("shifter romance") that Liu's Dirk and Steele series is under actually has the opposite problem with regards to heroines. The women are all damsels in distress with no real personality just waiting for their big strong bear/wolf/whatever shifter to come save them. I'm sorry but Liu really won me over with the women in her books. Rikki comes to mind, a torture survivor with permanent, ugly scars on her body that aren't magically healed or excused, nor are they aesthetic scars that make her look like a lady pirate, she's got words like "WHORE" etched into her skin. I don't know too many romance novel writers who would tackle a character like that.

[(Anonymous)]

They were talking about the books like The Otherworld Series, Anita Blake, Sookie Stackhouse, etc.