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⌈ Secret Post #2434 ⌋

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[A7X]

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[Stargate Atlantis]

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[Merlin]

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[Audrey Cooper, Twin Peaks]

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[Fire Emblem: Awakening]

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[Avril Lavigne, Tank Girl]

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[Meet the Robinsons]

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[Blood+]

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[Monty Python's Flying Circus]

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[Valentine Morgenstern, The Mortal Instruments]

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A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore.

It started out good but the subplot with the woman who was trying to sabotage him was forced and too easily resolved, and the joke at the end was stupid.

Spoiler: Main character dies but his love interest brings him back as a tiny creature that she made out of animal parts and then she says "I gave you a ten-inch schlong."

Out of context that may or may not be actually kind of funny but no.

It was also kinda racist.

"It was also kinda racist." lol no.

The Chinese women was a bit of a stereotype. Were the funny accents for her and the Russian woman really necessary? "lol no" isn't a very convincing argument so... ?

So accents are racist? The characters themselves weren't stereotypes unless you think Chinese people really put any animal they find in the sewer into a stew.

nayrt and haven't read the book

but, uh, yeah, that's definitely a stereotype and it sounds pretty racist

DA

it kind of is but not because of the accents. but it's a satire which I think OP didn't know. the racist stereotypes were on purpose, the same as a bunch of other stuff like how the dad (i forget his name) was a parent and stuff.

OP

I got that it was trying to be satire but his style just doesn't work for me, I guess.

Can't say I hated it, but: Daughter Of Smoke & Bone, by Laini Taylor, seemed quite promising - interesting protagonist, some fascinating world-building, angels (which I'm a sucker for) and some nice fight scenes. She'd effectively avoided making Karou a Mary Sue, and Akiva was fairly interesting, even with the contrived mystery around him...

Then the love story started.

I love a good romance, even with cheesiness, but it just started to feel rushed and overly sappy, the prose getting progressively more purple, and I was more and more disappointed as it went on. The best bit of that half of the book was probably the Romeo & Juliet homage with the ballroom scene - and even then, some of the character descriptions read like someone's DeviantArt anthro OCs. (I mean, Thiago's a cross between a werewolf, a bishounen boy and Conan the barbarian.)

*sighs* Will not be investing in the sequel, I think.

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