Evenfall (In the Company of Shadows, #1) in The Slash Pile

Jan 08, 2013 Marwa rated it it was amazing

Shelves: m-m-romance, complete-series, lgbtqa, tears-and-blood, has-a-special-place-in-my-heart, goodreads-hype, 2013-favourites, dystopia, 2013-reads, kindle

"Wow. I'm impressed. Seriously." Ryan stared at him in amazement. "Wow." A brief moment passed and he shook his head slowly. "Some day I'll be able to think of something more clever than that to say, but at the moment I'm freakin' floored.”"

That quote pretty much sums up how I'm feeling right now.

Before I began this book, I didn't really know what to expect, but everyone seemed to love it so I thought that I should give it a try.
However, I wasn't really excited to read 1427 pages of angst, b ...more

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Mar 09, 2018 Meep added it

Rating removed, review spoilered.
I'm here for the books not the authors - but can't ignore the allegations.

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Aug 28, 2012 Ayanna rated it really liked it

Shelves: favorites, non-pulpy, be-still-my-heart, wishlist-physical-copy

I can't believe I never said anything about the name before because it still kind of bothers me a bit (as in, I'd like to see what others think/have others weigh in and ^ seemed like an okay-ish lead-in, if a bit melodramatic)

Anyways, Hsin's name:
Hsin's name was always weird for me. He speaks Mandarin, was probs born within the past 50 years, and his name is spelled with Wade-Giles? (Ignoring that he speaks Mandarin but was from Hong Kong; that was ret-conned to make sense-ish). On top of that, I can't believe I never said anything about the name before because it still kind of bothers me a bit (as in, I'd like to see what others think/have others weigh in and ^ seemed like an okay-ish lead-in, if a bit melodramatic)

Anyways, Hsin's name:
Hsin's name was always weird for me. He speaks Mandarin, was probs born within the past 50 years, and his name is spelled with Wade-Giles? (Ignoring that he speaks Mandarin but was from Hong Kong; that was ret-conned to make sense-ish). On top of that, what is a "hsin liu" (or "xin liu," in pinyin)? Closest thing I could think of that I'd think a non-Chinese speaking person would come up with would be "流星," which means meteor (or shooting star, etc.), but that'd be Romanized "liu xing" (or "hsing" if we're going with Wade-Giles). And then there's the thing about it being reversed. Xin(g) Liu? Yes, surnames are presented first in Chinese, but "Liu Xin(g)" would be a given name. His surname is "Vega." (And even before that, I'm pretty sure his mom would have had a surname. Even if he had no surname, "Liu Xin(g)" wouldn't have been reversed. He'd just have been (considered in Chinese) mononymously "Liu Xin(g)."
But all my speculation begs the question: Is his name indeed supposed to be "流星" and then stylized for the sake of English meaning or is his name actually something else? This is important because in one of the later books, (view spoiler). I feel like I have asked before and might have received an answer, but if I did, I don't remember it.

On another note, I find it highly unlikely that he'd grow up in Hong Kong and not speak Cantonese. Sure, he can speak Mandarin cuz his mom, but that'd logically be in addition to Cantonese and not instead of. Even if he were asocial or ostracized, he'd have at least picked up enough of the language to get by.

I could probably/should probably just go and directly ask the authors, huh...

Also, reading some of my old status updates (and cringing at them like "God, did I really say that?"), I feel like I have to mention that I don't dislike Boyd as apparently fervently, stupidly, and irrationally as I used to. Some of it is seeing the character development through the series. Another part is also because when I first read it, I was at that age in which I was an insufferable idiot. I'm still an insufferable idiot in some regards, but at least I'm not as painfully, obviously a young idiot as I was back in 2012.

~~DID YOU KNOW THAT THE WORD "VIRGIN" DOESN'T SHOW UP IN THIS INSTALLMENT? I KNOW BECAUSE I WAS SELECTIVELY REREADING AND DECIDED TO DO A SEARCH AND MY SEARCH THING TOLD ME I HAD ZERO RESULTS.~~ <--this is what happens when I go for more than 24 hours without sleeping. ...more

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Oct 31, 2011 Clarissa rated it it was amazing

Shelves: owned, m-m, 2011-reads, dystopia, all-time-favorites, online-fictions, favorite-couple, one-couple-series

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SPOILER ALERT! btw

I really wasn't expecting this to be as AMAZING as I found it to be. I read it right after reading some reviews and synopsis and had come with my own expectations. But really this book just blew all of em away. This was the first book in months that I couldn't read in one go. It's like I needed to savour each scene and page. The last time I felt something like that, Special Forces happened. So yeah..

First of all, the book is LONG. Extremely long wit ...more

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Apr 27, 2011 LenaLena rated it really liked it

Shelves: action, mm, science-fiction, free-reads

This one was headed for 4.5 to 5 stars, until about 3/4 of the way through, when it started to drag quite a bit with way too many descriptions and introspection. Even in the middle of action scenes....
The endless epilogue didn't quite cancel out the excellent tension building in the first 400 pages though, so 4 stars seems about right. ...more

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