TW book review: Something in the Water

[rm]

I mean, I like them all, but I really like this one. It has almost nothing to do with Jack's past, and when it does it's quick and clever and a bit off balance.

It's got an interesting plot, good characterizations (Ianto is hilarious in this one) and you get to see Jack really and truly freaked out and it reads totally believably.

There's a brutality to the book that makes it feel not particularly cartoonish, which I like, but it also means:

- it's pretty gross with something resembling a killer flu/mpreg plotline
- the resolution is confusing
- a dog gets decapitated by what is described as a "crocodile with a jet pack"
- alien women are instruments of evil

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

Er, no.

HOWEVER, I really, really, think I may just be morally obligated to read Twilight so that I can form my objections authoritatively.

Although I think they amount to these books are:

- sex negative
- sexist
- praising codependency
- insulting to kids who were actually outcasts
- poorly structured
- a celebration of teen brattery

I experience culture aspirationally and that is sometimes admittedly targeted in strange and arguably toxic ways (i.e., Snape, Jack, Richard are all pretty dysfunctional folk), however, it's always, in my head, in some service of being more.

I don't think I can find any "more" in Twilight.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

"Twilight" is deeply shallow.
Like anything by Dan Brown, it's not something I feel it necessary to actually read in order to decide to avoid.
(And I have friends who are willing to do it for me.)

[rm.livejournal.com]

I find Dan Brown shallow and stupid, but not actually made of poison.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Myself, I find anything that promotes the meme that There Are Deep Dark Conspiracies-Doesn't That Just Make You Go Oooo fairly poisonous.
As always, YMMD.

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

I just emailed them to you.

[shipchan.livejournal.com]

All true, but in a totally selfish light I'd love to read your angry Twilight review, if only for an odd sort of vindication.