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May. 15th, 2021 23:38So, right before the entire country shut down (ie, back in early 2020) a friend lent me her copy of The Cruel Prince by Holly Black and I inhaled it and then figured out how to borrow ebooks from my local library and inhaled the entire Folk of Air trilogy because my brain went more more more.
Which turned out great when a month later I was all set to take out books from the library digitally haha.
I bumped into that friend recently in the grocery store (masked, distanced, vaccinated) and she reminded me that I still had the book and we squeed a bit about the main ship and I went home and...reread the entire trilogy again, and I just finished the prequel The Darkest Part of the Forest and I'm eying the other Holly Black Faerie books.
(Sidebar: Holly Black keeps thanking Cassandra Clare in her notes and I keep being like. Oh wowwwww I don't even know to PROCESS this it's not that I think Cassandra Clare doesn't deserve friends for being a BNF bully but also what...what is happening...the streams are crossing...glitch)
Anyway, I find myself really loving these books. It's weird, because I'm kind of moving away from wanting teen protagonists; I'm getting tired of them in my general life? But these books are still grabbing me.
They basically embrace the dark interpretations of European fantasy; accidental horrible fairy contracts and changeling children and all sorts of stuff that tends to get sanded off in most modern fantasy and there's something enrapturing about that. The characters know that magic is dangerous and deadly and yet they want it anyway and you can really feel the pull of the magic on them (even though in real life I would move to the most non-magic place in the world and hide.) In order for the stories to happen, all the characters need to made bad and dangerous decisions but I get what's driving them to do that.
Anyway, it's weird, because I am craving so much more of these characters and their stories, but I'm only mildly interested in fanfiction. I'm always trying to decipher why some fandoms grab me and some don't and this one would have me with meta and fanart (I've browsed a bit of the fanart on tumblr, but can't find much meta really) but I've sort of skimmed the fic at best. I...think? It might be the flavor of the books that I love. There are fandoms where I don't care if the writer manages to capture the book flavor when they write fic, but this one I only want if they can walk the delicate line of accessible and unreal and I'm just not seeing it? I think. I'm still pondering, to be honest. I would love a nice gen rec list to browse around, but no luck so far.
Oh, and the main character in The Darkest Part of the Forest is clearly reading Feed by Mira Grant in the book and I was DELIGHTED to get that reference ♥
Which turned out great when a month later I was all set to take out books from the library digitally haha.
I bumped into that friend recently in the grocery store (masked, distanced, vaccinated) and she reminded me that I still had the book and we squeed a bit about the main ship and I went home and...reread the entire trilogy again, and I just finished the prequel The Darkest Part of the Forest and I'm eying the other Holly Black Faerie books.
(Sidebar: Holly Black keeps thanking Cassandra Clare in her notes and I keep being like. Oh wowwwww I don't even know to PROCESS this it's not that I think Cassandra Clare doesn't deserve friends for being a BNF bully but also what...what is happening...the streams are crossing...glitch)
Anyway, I find myself really loving these books. It's weird, because I'm kind of moving away from wanting teen protagonists; I'm getting tired of them in my general life? But these books are still grabbing me.
They basically embrace the dark interpretations of European fantasy; accidental horrible fairy contracts and changeling children and all sorts of stuff that tends to get sanded off in most modern fantasy and there's something enrapturing about that. The characters know that magic is dangerous and deadly and yet they want it anyway and you can really feel the pull of the magic on them (even though in real life I would move to the most non-magic place in the world and hide.) In order for the stories to happen, all the characters need to made bad and dangerous decisions but I get what's driving them to do that.
Anyway, it's weird, because I am craving so much more of these characters and their stories, but I'm only mildly interested in fanfiction. I'm always trying to decipher why some fandoms grab me and some don't and this one would have me with meta and fanart (I've browsed a bit of the fanart on tumblr, but can't find much meta really) but I've sort of skimmed the fic at best. I...think? It might be the flavor of the books that I love. There are fandoms where I don't care if the writer manages to capture the book flavor when they write fic, but this one I only want if they can walk the delicate line of accessible and unreal and I'm just not seeing it? I think. I'm still pondering, to be honest. I would love a nice gen rec list to browse around, but no luck so far.
Oh, and the main character in The Darkest Part of the Forest is clearly reading Feed by Mira Grant in the book and I was DELIGHTED to get that reference ♥
