[ SECRET POST #4399 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4399 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Cassandra Clare & her books: TMI/TID/TDA]


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[Doctor Who]


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[Canadian ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir]


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[Charmed]


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[Criminal Minds - season 4, episode 8 "Masterpiece"]


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[Tidying Up with Marie Kondo]











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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I just like her books because they entertain me. I don't care if she's a bad person.

And hey, maybe what OP meant was that they're the only books they like that have diverse characters? CC's particular cheesy fun brand of urban fantasy is still very white, so for their genre her books (especially the historical ones) are much better than most others with diversity. Rec all the other authors you want, but I recognize some of them and their stories are nothing like CC's, and frankly many of them are boring and pretentious.

[(Anonymous)]

this.
i have a YA fantasy book subscription which has some edgy or lgbt stuff, but there's nothing as open / glaring as in CCs books. (I read them all).
One book was branded as "GAY PIRATES" and turned out to be a broken up lesbian couple which consisted of 2 very minor characters. yeah nope.

[(Anonymous)]

The police constable protagonist of Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series is half Sierra Leonean and one of his superiors is a married lesbian. His boss is possibly gay and a pretty decent proportion of slash fanfic pairs them up if that’s your thing. One of his coworkers who gets more decelopment as the series goes on is a hijabi Muslim woman.

The books are fun and remind me of what I liked about the Dresden Files books without the overwhelming sexism and obsession with guns. Also, since Peter, the protagonist, works as part of a police department, there’s less of a broody lone wolf quality to the series. And it’s not a laugh a minute, but it can get pretty funny.

Also, I’ve only managed to read the first one, but there’re short graphic novels also written by the author that fit between books in the series, and the one I read was fun.

And I haven’t read them, but apparently Seanan McGuire’s stuff is kind of whacky adventures with a diverse cast as well.