almost excellent fluff
Apr. 16th, 2008 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maribouDead Witch Walking, by Kim Harrison
So this is completely over-the-top, the heroine is fun, it's frequently hilarious, and satisfyingly action-packed, and I almost LOVED it, as paranormal bad-ass novels go .... BUT:
Gewurtzenheimer on toast, a mink is NOT a rodent!! A mink is more like a *bear* than like a rodent; it EATS rodents and NOT carrots, and I'd be a lot more worried about its canines than its incisors, and ZOG ZOG ZOG. The mink in this book worked more like some kind of super-rat. GRAW.
But, you know, the book was good enough that I actually put up with this driving me crazy for quite some time, and eventually it was no longer part of the story, and I enjoyed the rest of the book. And the last time someone wrote something this biologically stupid in a novel I threw it across the room, and I wasn't even tempted to throw this one ... so there *is* merit here. JUST NOT IN THE MINK DESCRIPTIONS. *STOMP STOMP STOMP*
It's not like basic research is all that hard anymore.
(66/300)
So this is completely over-the-top, the heroine is fun, it's frequently hilarious, and satisfyingly action-packed, and I almost LOVED it, as paranormal bad-ass novels go .... BUT:
Gewurtzenheimer on toast, a mink is NOT a rodent!! A mink is more like a *bear* than like a rodent; it EATS rodents and NOT carrots, and I'd be a lot more worried about its canines than its incisors, and ZOG ZOG ZOG. The mink in this book worked more like some kind of super-rat. GRAW.
But, you know, the book was good enough that I actually put up with this driving me crazy for quite some time, and eventually it was no longer part of the story, and I enjoyed the rest of the book. And the last time someone wrote something this biologically stupid in a novel I threw it across the room, and I wasn't even tempted to throw this one ... so there *is* merit here. JUST NOT IN THE MINK DESCRIPTIONS. *STOMP STOMP STOMP*
It's not like basic research is all that hard anymore.
(66/300)
