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kalinaraIt's occurred to me recently, that as I've been reviewing these books, there's been something of an uptick in my "I ship it" type comments. I'm a slasher at heart, and if you give me a complicated m/m or f/f relationship with amusing interaction and some flowery language, at some point I'm going to start suggesting they bang.
But slashy is not the same as queer, and it occurred to me that it might be nice to feature a book series where the subtext is intentional and actually amounts to something. (Though, truth be told, I don't think the relationship actually starts until the end of book 2. Oops.)
When I was a kid, it was pretty hard for me to find queer science-fiction and fantasy. Oh, it existed, of course, but it's not like there was some pretty sticker on the cover that said "hey, look. Non-straight people inside." If you knew which authors to look for, you could probably find it with ease, but I didn't know. And until I discovered the Internet as a teenager, I really didn't have a way to find them. The books and authors I found, I stumbled across by chance; Mercedes Lackey, Tanya Huff, and eventually Lynn Flewelling were all happy accidents for me.
So I'm a little nervous about reviewing this one, to be honest. I remember it very fondly. But I'm not sure how much of that is a reflection of the book itself, or if it's more that I found it at just the right time in my life.
I also never actually finished the series. I read up to the third book, which came out when I was about sixteen, (which had felt more like a fun followup to a more serious duology in much the same way as Barbara Hambly's Dog Wizard reads after the Silent Tower and Silicon Mage), and had no idea that she'd come back to it until fairly recently. So if I do stick with this series, there will come a point where I start reviewing blind.
That actually sounds like it could be fun.
( Well, here we go )
But slashy is not the same as queer, and it occurred to me that it might be nice to feature a book series where the subtext is intentional and actually amounts to something. (Though, truth be told, I don't think the relationship actually starts until the end of book 2. Oops.)
When I was a kid, it was pretty hard for me to find queer science-fiction and fantasy. Oh, it existed, of course, but it's not like there was some pretty sticker on the cover that said "hey, look. Non-straight people inside." If you knew which authors to look for, you could probably find it with ease, but I didn't know. And until I discovered the Internet as a teenager, I really didn't have a way to find them. The books and authors I found, I stumbled across by chance; Mercedes Lackey, Tanya Huff, and eventually Lynn Flewelling were all happy accidents for me.
So I'm a little nervous about reviewing this one, to be honest. I remember it very fondly. But I'm not sure how much of that is a reflection of the book itself, or if it's more that I found it at just the right time in my life.
I also never actually finished the series. I read up to the third book, which came out when I was about sixteen, (which had felt more like a fun followup to a more serious duology in much the same way as Barbara Hambly's Dog Wizard reads after the Silent Tower and Silicon Mage), and had no idea that she'd come back to it until fairly recently. So if I do stick with this series, there will come a point where I start reviewing blind.
That actually sounds like it could be fun.
( Well, here we go )