2 posts tagged “cheese”
Got this a couple of days ago and wow. I have to say, yet another aussie fantasy book that I can add to my awesomeness list. I know their are a couple of series I realy love from brittish and american authors, but seriously, Australian Fantasy writers have their own spiecial flare. I am so glad I am Australian. (Isn't it funny? Books make me more patriotic than gold medals.)
WOW this book is good. I don't think I could compare it to Trudi Canavan, just because it is so amazingly different, but I think I could safely say I liked it better than Kylie Chan books, it has many of the same elements (A romance, something that Sasha was missing) and better writing. Don't get me wrong though, Kylie Chan still rocks my romance world. He he... gods.
Petrador has the amazing detail that I loved Sasha for, not the iritatingly detailed descriptions of Allison Croggon (they are good, but seriously I skip most of it) but the beautiful tactical believable descriptions of battles and fights that bring the action alive. It has the added bonus that Sasha loses some of her Mary Sue qualities, adding sexual humor, insinuation, a fair deal of swearing (She particularly likes to use Cock and Fuck) and her angry, bitchy arrogance to her previously bland personality. It was always their, it just didn't get enough screen time. Their is also another weakness that I liked the use of. Trust.
Ahh Joel Shepherd. I admire you. When you can write a serious, philisophical debate, with one person seriously ingured, humiliated and at the other persons mercy, battle is raging around them and still center the whole thing around cheese, you have won my heart. When you can use a sex scene to reveal a major plot point without making the thing seem forced, you have shown rather ingenoius ways of giving the thing a purpous (For reference, his sex scene description surparces Kylie Chans in detail by rather a lot. It might even come close to his battle descriptions, yet it's not pornographic at all, I don't feel embaresed reading it, which I think deserves extra kudos. It also involves a LOT of talking (as I said, plot points) which is probably the reason it works.)
It is a realy good read. Better than Sasha, and you can proabably get away with reading Petrodor without the first book, although I realy did enjoy Sasha, and some of the stuff about Serrin the meaning of certain Sallshen words and the interrelation of Nazi Keth, Verathain and Goren Yai might be lost on you. Yeah. read them. If you can't read Sasha at least give Petrodor a try. If you can't read Petrodor, well Page 421 is a good starting point if you want to get to the cheese bit. But then again, you won't get the start of the chapter... maybe 402? I don't know. Just read the whole book. It's realy good.
CHEESE!
25,000 it has such a nice ring to it don’t you think?
I’ve made it half way and I’m more than a little behind. As punishment for this I had to turn one of my characters gay. Geez my friends are obsessed with Gay people *rolls eyes* they are just so immature.
If I don’t write 30,000 words by the end of the day (That is 5,000 words for anyone who can’t be bothered doing math) I have to kill off Freven… Noooooooo!
Sadly I don’t think I am going to make it. I have a very heroic death planed for him, but I would rather not be forced to use it.
Anyway statistics time:
Day: 18
Words: 25,001
Deaths: 24
Bouts of Insanity: 7
Pages: 40 something A4
Paragraphs: No idea…
Hours spent writing: 33.25
Hours I should have been doing revision: A very, Very large number which is thankfully no longer growing.
Soft drinks consumed: 20
Chocolate Eaten: 15 Fredo Frogs, I love Fredo Frogs.
Exams completed: 7
Exams completed well: 3
References to cheese: 143, yes I actually counted.
Dares completed: 4
