[LMB] TSK: Beguilement Re-read -- Questions for Chapter 3

[Tzivia Adler]

> Slipstream. Crossover. Bujold Book. These and other terms have been used 
> to
> describe stories that don't fit easily into one genre or do, but "run over
> the edges" into other areas.
> After reading chapter three, and keeping in mind your first and second
> impressions from the previous chapters, how would you describe this book's
> genre to someone who has never heard of Lois McMaster Bujold?
>
> For the romance readers on the list, how well is this fantasy conforming 
> to
> romance's expectations?
>
replying in 2 posts...

the only reason ilike book genre is, the library lumps them in a group and i 
can pick up some intrestin authors with the same last initial as my current 
'look for her next book'.


i don't much like romance, as it exists on today's bookshelves.  if anyone 
told me this was a paranormal romance, i'd run inthe other direction.  the 
'weather prediction/control' (rachel caine i think) series  with genies was 
awful.  most paranormal crossovers are awful, with weak heroines and heroes 
with all their brains in their biceps.  given the sheer volume of romance 
and paranormal romance books, i may well be in the minority here, so nobody 
who likes flame me please?

one almost good crossover: the anita blake series started off with lots of 
action, but in one not-so-recent book it took 2 chapters* between her 
getting out of hte shower, wrapped in a towel, to her boyfriend(s) in not 
much more, 2 chapters of angst before anything happened.  her books dropped 
from yay action-romance, reserve as soon as published, to pick up if i 
notice it laying on the shelf.

i have high expectation that, if lois continues for eleven books, they will 
maintain her high standard.
hmmm.  the vorkosigan books, over ten books, switched from high space opera 
to comedy of manners/romance.  so maybe the fawn-dag thing will wander 
around genres, too.  but i expet angst will be kept on a short leash.


ziviya
* so i counted chapters.  at least i didn't count pages.