The Melusine books have become a huge guilty pleasure for me, though obvs. they are such a far cry from my genre preferences! I don't like to disclose that I read this stuff at all, but in reality I await #4 with great impatience and was vastly peeved by its delay. NO ONE HAS TO KNOW OKAY. It bothers me a lot that no one here is ever, ever happy due to HORRIBLE CHOICES. Characters who are little more than vehicles of narrative, ugh. I can't stand Felix, never mind his wtf nineties-era goth aesthetic. Mildmay Doesn't Know What Love Is (He Just Does As He's Told). Loyal Fag Hag Mehitabel is all right; her sue-ness makes her vaguely likeable, esp. in third book. Gideon is very, very boring, but his presence has an eventual reason besides throwing a cog into LOL INCEST UST.
The third book's worth reading, insofar as it offers a conventionally pastede-on but objectively seaworthy explanation for WHY THE FUCK, MILDMAY. Some cool stuff happens at the end; the fist 2/3 is for skimming.
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Date: 2007-12-17 07:44 am (UTC)The third book's worth reading, insofar as it offers a conventionally pastede-on but objectively seaworthy explanation for WHY THE FUCK, MILDMAY. Some cool stuff happens at the end; the fist 2/3 is for skimming.