Skim and more Dirk and Steele
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22: Skim: This is very good, but not my sort of thing. An understated graphic novel about a teenage girl dealing with various Stuff. Others have reviewed it better!
23: The Wild Road by Marjorie M Liu
Another Dirke and Steele romance. She's a mysterious woman who woke in a mess of bodies she seems to have killed with no memory! He's a sexy gargoyle afraid to love!
I liked this. Being a fan of the Gargoyles cartoon as an impressionable young woman may have helped :)
24:The Last Twilight by Marjorie M Liu
Not about vampires, thankfully.
She's a CDC disease specialist investigating a mysterious outbreak! He's a sexy wereleopard afraid to love!
I really enjoyed this one too, though I felt like the male lead was a bit exotified: there are other shapeshifters and other black African male characters in this book and others which made it a lot less problematic, but even as a white australian woman the idea of a black African man whose predator nature shines through his magical eyes as he turns into a leopard a bit..dodgy. It didn't put me off too much, YMMV.
22: Skim: This is very good, but not my sort of thing. An understated graphic novel about a teenage girl dealing with various Stuff. Others have reviewed it better!
23: The Wild Road by Marjorie M Liu
Another Dirke and Steele romance. She's a mysterious woman who woke in a mess of bodies she seems to have killed with no memory! He's a sexy gargoyle afraid to love!
I liked this. Being a fan of the Gargoyles cartoon as an impressionable young woman may have helped :)
24:The Last Twilight by Marjorie M Liu
Not about vampires, thankfully.
She's a CDC disease specialist investigating a mysterious outbreak! He's a sexy wereleopard afraid to love!
I really enjoyed this one too, though I felt like the male lead was a bit exotified: there are other shapeshifters and other black African male characters in this book and others which made it a lot less problematic, but even as a white australian woman the idea of a black African man whose predator nature shines through his magical eyes as he turns into a leopard a bit..dodgy. It didn't put me off too much, YMMV.
