more books!
Jan. 26th, 2007 12:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
violaceaOr, at least, one book. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jdfskpoi lent me Colleen Gleason's The Rest Falls Away, and the premise intrigued me enough that I had to read it right away. The premise - as stated by the author over on the Smart Bitches site - is "what if Buffy had been born in Regency England?" While that's a fair description in certain ways, it doesn't really speak to the very well-plotted world Gleason has created, which stands on its own without any comparisions. Victoria shares some very basic characteristics with Buffy - she's a beautiful girl, ready and eager to live the kind of life a girl her age normally lives, when she's faced with the idea that she has a destiny, a family heritage that gives her unusual strength and instincts to kill vampires. This book - the first in a series of five - shows her attempting to balance her normal life (ie, attempting to find a husband) with her life as a vampire slayer.
There are moments that this book spends too much time straddling between the fantasy genre and the Regency genre, and I think that, at certain points, a reader will tire of one or the other, depending on which genre you normally read. For me, that means I was occasionally impatient with the Regency courting scenes. But, overall, this was a fantastic book, a great setup for the series. I can't wait to read the next one!
jdfskpoi lent me Colleen Gleason's The Rest Falls Away, and the premise intrigued me enough that I had to read it right away. The premise - as stated by the author over on the Smart Bitches site - is "what if Buffy had been born in Regency England?" While that's a fair description in certain ways, it doesn't really speak to the very well-plotted world Gleason has created, which stands on its own without any comparisions. Victoria shares some very basic characteristics with Buffy - she's a beautiful girl, ready and eager to live the kind of life a girl her age normally lives, when she's faced with the idea that she has a destiny, a family heritage that gives her unusual strength and instincts to kill vampires. This book - the first in a series of five - shows her attempting to balance her normal life (ie, attempting to find a husband) with her life as a vampire slayer.There are moments that this book spends too much time straddling between the fantasy genre and the Regency genre, and I think that, at certain points, a reader will tire of one or the other, depending on which genre you normally read. For me, that means I was occasionally impatient with the Regency courting scenes. But, overall, this was a fantastic book, a great setup for the series. I can't wait to read the next one!
