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SERVANT OF THE BONES CHAPTER 2
Jul. 29th, 2018 09:12 pmMan, I suddenly had some hard nostalgia for Anita Blake? Namely the wereanimals. Don't know why. Also, you know what I thought was a cool detail? It came up in one of the most recent books, pretty sure, that the color of your animal (except with the tigers and born shifters I guess) is determined by that of the wereanimal who infected you. So if a werewolf with a white wolf form infected somebody, their wolf form would be white too. I haven't seen that anywhere else and I think it's neat. I kind of like it better than someone's animal form having their coloration, cuz it means anyone can be anything, you don't HAVE to have a ginger animal form just because you're a redhead, a blonde can have a black one, a black person can have a white one, etc. I dunno, I just think that's cool.
Speaking of that, check out this list:
https://sites.google.com/site/satireknightsnarks/satireknight-specials/satireknight-rants---the-top-ways-anita-blake-pisses-me-off
I do disagree that Anita would fit in on Tumblr, though. Yes, she's quick to call anyone a bigot who disagrees with her, but that wouldn't protect her from everyone else calling her out on her own abundant bullshit. I think she'd get ripped apart pretty quickly, and rightly so. Also, on the exercise thing, I think it's been specified more than once that the vampires and were-animals are using gym equipment that's constructed specifically with their super-strength in mind. Everything else though...right on. And the hatred helped with the nostalgia!
This chapter was hard to get through. It's not BAD but it's very dense, very wordy, and it jumps around a LOT. I guess that makes sense since it's two people talking---it's much more a conversation than Lestat/Quinn was--but the tangents make things zig-zag a lot. And, in typical Rice fashion, there's a lot of very lovely but very distracting, unnecessary details that just bog it down. I definitely don't think that all of said details should be cut---they're lovely, evocative, set a scene, and are part of the Gothic style---just trimmed a wee bit.
It would be inaccurate to say NOTHING relevant gets relayed in this chapter, but I think most of the 25 pages it takes is just padding. That's why this spork took this long. By the way, at the end of this book, Jonathon mentions to us he's not attracted to men. I'd like you to keep that in mind when you read certain lines.
SERVANT OF THE BONES CHAPTER 2
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Speaking of that, check out this list:
https://sites.google.com/site/satireknightsnarks/satireknight-specials/satireknight-rants---the-top-ways-anita-blake-pisses-me-off
I do disagree that Anita would fit in on Tumblr, though. Yes, she's quick to call anyone a bigot who disagrees with her, but that wouldn't protect her from everyone else calling her out on her own abundant bullshit. I think she'd get ripped apart pretty quickly, and rightly so. Also, on the exercise thing, I think it's been specified more than once that the vampires and were-animals are using gym equipment that's constructed specifically with their super-strength in mind. Everything else though...right on. And the hatred helped with the nostalgia!
This chapter was hard to get through. It's not BAD but it's very dense, very wordy, and it jumps around a LOT. I guess that makes sense since it's two people talking---it's much more a conversation than Lestat/Quinn was--but the tangents make things zig-zag a lot. And, in typical Rice fashion, there's a lot of very lovely but very distracting, unnecessary details that just bog it down. I definitely don't think that all of said details should be cut---they're lovely, evocative, set a scene, and are part of the Gothic style---just trimmed a wee bit.
It would be inaccurate to say NOTHING relevant gets relayed in this chapter, but I think most of the 25 pages it takes is just padding. That's why this spork took this long. By the way, at the end of this book, Jonathon mentions to us he's not attracted to men. I'd like you to keep that in mind when you read certain lines.
SERVANT OF THE BONES CHAPTER 2
( More )
