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You don't like Toby Daye? [bemused] ;-)You don't like Harry Dresden?
Did you listen to audiobooks or read them?
Ian (RebelGeek) wrote: "You don't like Toby Daye? [bemused] ;-)You don't like Harry Dresden?
Did you listen to audiobooks or read them?"
Audiobooks in both cases. The narrators were good, the books were not my thing.
Dresden files is a bit like Star Wars to me. It's not high art, but I really enjoy it. High art that I really enjoy is a rarer thing & I listen to way too many books to limit myself to just that. Patrick Rothfuss would be my go to example. I'm not emotionally invested in either of you liking Dresden or anything else. I was just curious.
Why is my liking things not important to you? Do my feelings mean nothing to you, Ian?! After all we’ve been through! Think of the children!ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
So (view spoiler)[ only people with fae blood can travel by fairy ring, but people of Apache blood can banish vampires from their ancestral homelands (which is a very broad range because nomads). (hide spoiler)]
It was a neat way of integrating the supernatural with the real-life history of the American continent, with old-world and new-world magic working in different ways.
Plus, the whole concept of a (view spoiler)[ town which moves from Massachusetts to Texas and potentially to the West coast, sucking up the health of indigenous people all the way (hide spoiler)] was an excellent YA-appropriate magical metaphor for Manifest Destiny.
I've struggled with American-set urban fantasy in the past (bounced off both the Toby Daye books and the Harry Dresden books) but enjoyed both this and American Gods and I think the key for me is the way the European mythology is integrated with the Native mythology.
The only thing missing from this book which I would have liked to see is any exploration of African mythology brought over by enslaved peoples, but perhaps we'll see that if there's a sequel.