Current reading: Gaywyck and The Mirador

[louiselux]

I finished Gaywyck. It is utterly preposterous and I entreat you all to read it! The deepest, darkest most broodingest secrets of the Gaylord Family are revealed and there is much leaping into the cold salty waters of the sea, for reasons I couldn't fathom. There were floods of tears by the end (the characters, not mine) and a happy ever after.

Well!

I have now moved on to The Mirador by Sarah Monette, which is far more gently cracktastic. I'm really enjoying this one, apart from the times when characters expound at length about complicated plot points. I can never follow machinations or remember complex histories in novels, and it worries me that I won't understand some vital plot twist later on. Woe. But Mildmay is incredibly endearing and makes up for all the machinations that I struggle to keep up with. Sadly there is no sign of any gay incest yet.

Comments

[lisa-bee.livejournal.com]

I read The Mirador a couple of months ago, and it is a bit cracktastic. Make sure you have The Virtu on hand before you finish reading The Mirador, though, because man is there a cliff-hanger.

I also found Mildmay endearing. Nearly enough so to make up for Felix being such an asshat so much of the time. :)

And don't despair completely for Felix/Mildmay...

Now to go get a public library card in the hopes that they have Gaywick...

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Felix is really an incredible asshat, to the point where I want to slap him. But! I have Melusine and The Virtu already, and The Mirador is the third installment. My hopes for gay incest are not yet gone, but they are fading. Woe is us. I

[lisa-bee.livejournal.com]

...Yeah, I meant Melusine, not The Mirador -- I haven't read the third one yet. I just mixed up the titles.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Easily done. And I have to say, Mildmay and Felix are very intense in this one but god I just wish they'd talk to each other!

[thornsilver]

I've read "Gaywick", and the amound of cracktastic angst still amuses me. As is everybody being so very gay.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I don't think there is a straight person in it which, you know, fair enough. It's mind-boggling and practically a work of genius.

[moshesque.livejournal.com]

The salty waters of the sea leaping sounds kind of fun. *g* Though not so sure about the floods of tears. :)

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Yes, floods of tears get slightly tedious after about the fifth time, although the rest of the book makes up for it.

[cicer.livejournal.com]

I really must track down a copy of Gaywick. After hearing everybody's comments about it, I'm incredibly curious. And yay for leaping into the cold salty waters of the sea! XD

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

They do it constantly, especially in the last few chapters. It's very odd. You must read it, I insist.

[lovely-sapphire.livejournal.com]

It sounds interesting! They don't have copies in my local library system, though. *cries* Oh, I'm Sapphire, btw, a random stumbler.