Grab Your Gun & Bring In The Cat

[redbrunja]

I recently finished reading Spirit & Dust by Rosemary Clement Moore which was very enjoyable, despite the fact that it:

1. has a love triangle


2. and the side I two people I wanted to hook up didn’t.

Seriously, the main character is a weeks-from-eighteen teen psychic whose hot handler with the FBI literally calls her “Jailbait” as an affectionate nick-name, is understanding and supportive about her talents, and their call and response code phrase for “I’m fine” is “what do you hear?” “nothing but the rain.”

AND INSTEAD OF BANGING THE FUCK OUT OF THAT DUDE AS SOON AS SHE TURNS EIGHTEEN, WHICH, TRUST ME, WAS A DAY MARKED ON BOTH OF THEIR CALENDARS, she ends up hooking up with the more age-appropriate ‘bad boy’ who spent the majority of the novel lying to her. Admittedly, he had good reasons, but still. Why waste your time with a lying bad boy when you could be nailing a hot FBI agent you work with?

Comments

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Aw you made me excited (BSG! STARBUCK!), then instantly not excited (Bad boy. Liar. Blegh) in the space of two sentences! :/

I picked up a book called The Rook by Daniel O'Malley from the library today, after I saw a discerning reader/blogger online recommend it for fans of Orphan Black and then reading the excellent first four chapters (http://www.rookfiles.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/The-Rook_chapters-1-4.pdf) on author's website. It *is* very Orphan Black-ish so far. Will update you on if it's worth checking out when I get a lot further into it.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Aw you made me excited (BSG! STARBUCK!), then instantly not excited (Bad boy. Liar. Blegh) in the space of two sentences! :/

That was my emotional reaction over the course of a novel. *sad face*

Do you have a determination on that book yet?

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

It's very good! I quite like it. The main character is a lot of fun and it feels very fresh and original.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I just put that on hold from the library.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Oh good! It's pretty fun. It does get a bit expo-dumpy with the "letters to herself" but I think you'll like Myfanwy.

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

Bah, humbug. I'm so tired of the rubbish ships that are canon because they're 'age-appropriate'. *eyeroll* I'm glad I haven't read this 'coz I'd've been all over the teen psychic/FBI handler myself and unable to bear the disappointment!

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yep. It's one thing when you feel like an author just doesn't realize that the ship they're writing is boring, but in this case, the ship was so deliberately set-up I know the author just, for some reason, didn't want to go there. WHY?

[http://users.livejournal.com/brokenrecord__/]

I read Spirit and Dust last summer, and when I started it, I was fully ready to start shipping the FBI handler with the teen psychic for all the reasons you mentioned, and so I was really confused about halfway in when I realized where the book was actually going. I ended up being okay with the teen bad boy, but her and the FBI handler would have been so much more fun. I'm glad you felt the same way, anyways, because I thought I was reading the book wrong or picking up on something that wasn't there. At least it wasn't just me!

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, the author was being 100% deliberate about what she was doing with the subtext. I don't get WHY she teased teen psychi/FBI and then didn't deliver, but it certainly wasn't accidental.