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May 29, 2014 01:54
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Some thoughts: Dinosaur Cowgirl Maggie was freakin' adorable. Do you suppose Michael tells her bedtime stories about Harry's exploits? Or is she just that badass naturally? I find it creepy for Lash Jr to live in a skull. Harry needs to get her something more age- and gender-appropriate. Maybe Maggie will get a doll-slash-sister for Christmas and they can grow up together. Speaking of spirits of intellect housed in skulls, do we really think Molly is still ignorant of Bob's existence? Even without this major clue, he was pretty much an open secret among the League and we know Molly was capable of eavesdropping on them. Who was the testy British guy in Demonreach? I vote Merlin.
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May 29, 2014 04:07
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Clearly the final trilogy is going to be a massive crossover with Alera, so Pokemon is entirely thematically appropriate. 
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Jun 1, 2014 02:13
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College fund.
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Jun 2, 2014 00:05
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RE: Charity's math. Since Mouse accompanies Maggie to school, you gotta count him, and that's dog years. Or it was her way of hinting to Michael that she is pregnant.
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Jun 2, 2014 01:11
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...and you can only differentiate between them because one
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Jun 8, 2014 23:56
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I wonder if the Mantle carries any residues of its last bearer? Like Lloyd Slate was a sleazoid and that rubs off on Harry some? It would tie in a lttle with the Ladies' mantles and Lily turning into Aurora 2.0. Although it bodes ill for Molly.
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Jun 30, 2014 02:26
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Loving Life Partner posted:I don't know why or how but McCoy in my head is Cotton Hill and there's nothing anyone can do about it No he is clearly Uncle Jesse. Which kind of makes the Merlin into Boss Hogg, which I am stil on the fence about.
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Feb 3, 2015 05:31
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Pretty much this. I seriously expect the alternate Dresden and co. to feel like "our" Dresden is the one who made the "wrong" choice.
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Sep 24, 2015 13:43
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My question is, how tall are the habble levels? If there are 250 levels and the spire is 10,000 feet high, that works out to about 40 feet. If Landing split that in half, how could the temple of the Way possibly be 4 stories tall? Or am I missing something?
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Dec 22, 2015 18:02
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Or is it maybe something that is specific to the True Love relationship?
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May 20, 2016 03:19
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Eh, I didn't hate them but it's dependent on how well you can put up with a mild-mannered accountant who just happens to be an award-winning sharpshooter who can kill a werewolf with his bare hands and wins the heart of the hot chick from her handsome talented boyfriend and who is also fated to either save or destroy the world. The action pieces are exciting, the characterization and dialogue are a little weak, and the white trash elves are pretty cool. You can check out sample chapters free online at Baen.com to see if it is your cup of tea.
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Jul 27, 2016 03:12
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And Kincaid ends up as the Winter Knight when Harry sheds the mantle.
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Sep 21, 2016 04:58
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Or, Mab was just loving with Harry and changed the labels on the weights and he is really lifting 100.
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Oct 29, 2016 04:52
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-Fish- posted:I'm gonna go against the flow and advise avoiding the Mercy Thompson series. It definitely never reaches Anita Blake levels of supernatural sex, but the romance arc still majorly ruins the series. The first few books are really promising but the romantic relationship gets into this poorly written sub/dom thing with her boyfriend as the dom, just with every instance of the words "sub" and "dom" replaced with "pack" and "alpha". This gets incredibly bad at the point where Mercy is raped by someone who drugs her with a mind control serum and is dealing with PTSD from it. Her boyfriend cures her of being raped and having PTSD by being ~sooo alpha <3 <3 <3~ and forcing himself on her while they're alone in his house.. That was the fourth or fifth book I think? I noped out hard at that point. See also, the women of the werewolf tribes ALL know Mercy and just hate her because unlike them, she can shapeshift whenever she wants, so she can have babies since she won't kill them by shapeshifting if she doesn't want to. In general, Patricia Briggs has a problem with using rape as a crutch when she wants to add drama or make a flat character seem more interesting. See the entire back story for the Alpha and Omega series, for example.
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Jan 5, 2017 20:49
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What's the deal with Mac? Also when is the next book coming out?!
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Jul 1, 2017 00:06
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Exmond posted:Paying rent is like doing a good deed for the day. Maybe he needed the $1 to finalize their contract? Yeah I took it as a symbolic exchange of funds to make the contract binding. Like on TV when the crook gives his lawyer pal a dollar to create a client-lawyer relationship so he can't testify against him.
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Sep 3, 2018 04:36
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:Peter's probably like a kazoo played by airhorn, given how irritated pretty much every magical being is the second he starts doing things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E6ljLSOkbY
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Dec 16, 2018 06:10
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StrixNebulosa posted:Where do the next few books of Mercy go? There's like, zero romance in Mercy 2 (that I saw) While I agree that Patricia Briggs leans way too hard on rape as a plot point, one thing I like is that early in the Mercy series she flatly refused to do an Anita Blake-style love triangle. Part of the creep factor in book one is that the publisher insisted on multiple possible love interests . But once Mercy picks one, the others basically go "darn guess I will start looking elsewhere now".
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Oct 13, 2019 23:34
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On the LGBT diversity front, Tanya Huff has a series (starting with The Enchantment Emporium) that features bisexual leads. Iirc they do both end up with male partners though. Other than that ... yeah, not a lot.
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Oct 14, 2019 23:32
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Hub Cat posted:Is Anita Blake really that bad? I've avoided the series because I don't want to get into the couple good books if it turns really bad but I can't tell how much of this is hyperbole. There is zero hyperbole in that, sadly.
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Oct 26, 2019 22:39
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navyjack posted:I still think Cowl and Kumori are the two wardens whose names I can’t remember who die conveniently off-camera. Literally no reason for those two to exist. They are named and they die but do nothing else. In a shocking twist, they turn out to be Arthur and Guinevere, seeking revenge on the original Merlin.
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Jun 16, 2020 03:58
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jivjov posted:The extended wizard lifespan is gonna get in the way of Harry/Murphy too - though maybe i'll be surprised and the payoff will be the two coming to terms with the fact that Murphy will grow old and die while Harry is still functionally in his 30s/40s and make the most of their time together Naw, Murphy is going to get killed and come back as a Valkyrie and be essentially immortal, and leave Dresden behind because now he is the fragile mortal one by comparison.
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Jun 16, 2020 20:56
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Drone Jett posted:I agree with this, but it was also a foreseeable outcome of Even Hand, or whichever Marcone story had him barely survive a mid-grade Fomor noble sorcerer sent to kill him in one of his strong points. He won, but it used a lot of resources and required him to retreat to a prepared position. The price of independence from the coin was looking increasingly like death. You have just reminded me, we never did find out where he was, did we?
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Oct 2, 2020 22:16
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Drone Jett posted:Kincaid There's a short story where Ivy fires him because she knows he took the contract to kill Dresden. So that's why he's not with her in Battle Ground, no idea where he is now, but presumably as a former right hand man for Drakul he'll come into that storyline in the near future. Oh I missed that one, thank you!
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Oct 2, 2020 23:21
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I think Seanan McGuire has been posted in this thread before? Those who like her might wanna check out Tor.com, they are giving away a different book in The Every Heart a Doorway series each day this week.
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Dec 1, 2020 02:39
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:Which is really weird since in his other books, the Grimnoir Chronicles, the team of superpowered good guys are funded by a wealthy altruistic billionaire (at least i think so? It's been years since I read them, I could be conflating things with another book). Which is wildly unrealistic, yes, but is at least not in violent philosophic opposition to everything else he clearly believes. It's an obvious go-to solution to a fantasy logistical problem. If I recall correctly, in MHI the government fund was originally set up by the Good Roosevelt (Teddy) and therefore using it as a source of funds is also Good even though Government is Bad. Or something, theres a lot of contradictory opinions and hand-waving to fit whatever narrative is on the front burner at the moment.
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Apr 22, 2021 01:00
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I was thinking back over Peace Talks/Battle Ground and one thing that stood out to me initially and then I kinda forgot, was Harry's reaction to hearing that Thomas went on a murder spree. There was no, are you sure/that doesn't sound like him/he's actually a good person underneath I swear, just straight to yep, sure, it was only a matter of time. Which feels like either odd characterization for Harry (who normally sees the good in those he cares for) or downright horrifying characterization, in that he saw the potential for evil and did literally nothing to ward against it.
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Apr 30, 2022 00:26
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Yesterday, Amazon recommended me an upcoming book by James J Butcher which was kinda confusing until I read the author bio and apparently he's Jim Butcher's son. Was I the only one who didn't know he existed? I did have a brief moment, when I saw the very Dresden-esque book cover, where I wondered if James could maybe take over for his dad and wrap up the series sometime this century. Like, maybe he inherited editing and pacing skills from his mom's side? But then I saw the MC is named Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby and I lost all hope for him as a writer.
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Oct 6, 2022 21:08
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Xiahou Dun posted:That loving cover lol.
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Dec 7, 2022 01:49
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Andy McDermott used to post back in the day, but I dunno if he is still active on the forums. And there were a lot of writer goons in the self-published erotica threads.
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Jul 5, 2023 11:05
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Soonmot posted:Hell yeah, I'm aroace so low hornt content is my jam. I am not an audio book fan; I generally read faster than a narrator would speak so I find them slow and frustrating. But awhile back someone suggested thinking of them like a radio play which piqued my interest. So I asked what their favorite book was, and they named a romance novel that they loved because of the way the reader acted out the sex scenes with moans and whimpering. Um. No, thank you. If I wanted to hear someone enthusiastically describing sex acts in between their idea of sexy porno sounds, I would time travel back to my thin-walled college dorm.
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Jul 20, 2023 14:16
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Thanks for the recs! I literally just learned about Graphic Audio format like, a week ago, and had been wondering how it differed from standard audio book. Sounds like it is definitely more up my alley.
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Jul 21, 2023 04:00
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Ravus Ursus posted:I'm not engaging with the social aspect of Goodreads. If I want bad takes on books I'd go to reddit. I hear LibraryThing is good for that.
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Aug 22, 2023 02:59
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awesmoe posted:for some reason this just killed me. i was already losing it at ad-supported family friendly radio-edits of second rate werewolf erotica but polar bear love interests was just a bridge too far There is also a silverback gorilla shifter named Broken Sue.
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Mar 15, 2024 09:59
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Your Uncle Dracula posted:What would be the worst were-thing to enter a paranormal romance with? Were-tapeworm
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Mar 15, 2024 11:45
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Ravus Ursus posted:I don't think you're missing anything. I've been a fan since the third book and I genuinely like Fool Moon and Peace Talks was very disjointed and weird and Battlegrounds felt like he was trying to do an Avengers style thing but also the rules are gone for reasons so everyone is just blasting with all their power all the time. I keep thinking about Laurell K Hamilton and how the Anita Blake series went from "sex-heavy but interesting urban fantasy" to "lady you need therapy, stop shoving your kinks at everyone" right around the time she broke up with her longtime partner. Anita's love interest in the first books was explicitly based on the author's partner, so he got dumped from the plot and Anita started having nonstop sex with everything that moved. It makes me wonder, just a little, if Murphy was in any way based on Jim's ex.
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Apr 22, 2024 05:06
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