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matrixrefugeeI'm feeling immensely better since yesterday: I'm not shaking as much as I was, but I'm off the adrenalin rush I was on all day and thus the pain is setting in: I feel like someone punched my left leg (where I got hit). Says my mom, "Well, you did, you got punched by a *car*." I managed three-quarters of my shift at work today before my leg decided it had had enough and nearly buckled under me. I'm resting now and just took a warm bath to ease the aches, and I'm curled up with a fairly new urban fantasy series that is tiding me over between Dresden Files books...
That would be the Cal Leandros series by Rob Thurman, and that's Cal and his half-brother Nikos in the icon for this entry. And yep, the same artist who does the covers for the Dresden Files, Chris McGrath, also does the cover artwork. I have to admit, it was the Jared Padalecki-lookalike on the cover (same model for Harry Dresden) that caught my attention when I first spotted the second book of the series, NightLife, in the Borders at the Burlington Mall. I was in between Dresden Files books, so I picked it up to tide me over. I've seen it compared to the Dresden Files (there is a passing cosmetic resemblence: two half-brothers who work as preternatural detectives in a large American city, one of them is in fact a preternatural being, but that's where the similarities end), but I'd say it's more like a cross between Supernatural and White Wolf's World of Darkness RPGs.
Now, it was a bit of a rocky start when I read the second book (couldn't find the first till I did a little digging): Cal is, to say the least, an acidicly snarky, self-loathing, at times almost emo fellow. At first, I wasn't sure if I liked him or not, but now that I'm reading the first book, Moonlight... I've got a better understanding of how he got that way. Having an abusive childhood, getting kidnapped by dark elf-like beings and spending two years of their time in their realm while two days go by in the human world, then finding out your father was one of those creatures is *not* going to make you a happy camper. Especially when every preternatural thing that crosses your path can smell that you're not as human as you look and isn't above rubbing your face in this fact.
Nor are you going to be a happy camper as a fan when you find that, as tiny as this fandom is, there already is slash for it. So far, I have not seen any Cal/Nikos incest (BLARGHH! I probably just cursed it into existence...), but I have seen Robin Goodfellow (yes, *THAT* Robin Goodfellow)/Cal slash. *Headdesk* Err, by all accounts Cal is a red-blooded guy, but I suspect the two years he spent in the realm of the Auphe involved a lot of torment, no doubt of the sexual kind. And even if his mind has it all on lockdown, the fact that it scared the crap out of Robin when he peeked under the hood of Cal's brain, hints that it was something that would put off someone as perpetually horny as Robin. Thus (as of now, could change as the series progresses), I don't think he's likely to try getting physical with anyone, not even the precognizent girl he likes, since he's probably too damaged to enjoy it. That and while Robin might like to twit the Leandros brothers to annoy them, I don't think he'll try getting physical with either of them any time soon. Much less Cal, for reasons already specified.
Hey, if I can grouse about bad fanfic, I'm doing well, non?
That would be the Cal Leandros series by Rob Thurman, and that's Cal and his half-brother Nikos in the icon for this entry. And yep, the same artist who does the covers for the Dresden Files, Chris McGrath, also does the cover artwork. I have to admit, it was the Jared Padalecki-lookalike on the cover (same model for Harry Dresden) that caught my attention when I first spotted the second book of the series, NightLife, in the Borders at the Burlington Mall. I was in between Dresden Files books, so I picked it up to tide me over. I've seen it compared to the Dresden Files (there is a passing cosmetic resemblence: two half-brothers who work as preternatural detectives in a large American city, one of them is in fact a preternatural being, but that's where the similarities end), but I'd say it's more like a cross between Supernatural and White Wolf's World of Darkness RPGs.
Now, it was a bit of a rocky start when I read the second book (couldn't find the first till I did a little digging): Cal is, to say the least, an acidicly snarky, self-loathing, at times almost emo fellow. At first, I wasn't sure if I liked him or not, but now that I'm reading the first book, Moonlight... I've got a better understanding of how he got that way. Having an abusive childhood, getting kidnapped by dark elf-like beings and spending two years of their time in their realm while two days go by in the human world, then finding out your father was one of those creatures is *not* going to make you a happy camper. Especially when every preternatural thing that crosses your path can smell that you're not as human as you look and isn't above rubbing your face in this fact.
Nor are you going to be a happy camper as a fan when you find that, as tiny as this fandom is, there already is slash for it. So far, I have not seen any Cal/Nikos incest (BLARGHH! I probably just cursed it into existence...), but I have seen Robin Goodfellow (yes, *THAT* Robin Goodfellow)/Cal slash. *Headdesk* Err, by all accounts Cal is a red-blooded guy, but I suspect the two years he spent in the realm of the Auphe involved a lot of torment, no doubt of the sexual kind. And even if his mind has it all on lockdown, the fact that it scared the crap out of Robin when he peeked under the hood of Cal's brain, hints that it was something that would put off someone as perpetually horny as Robin. Thus (as of now, could change as the series progresses), I don't think he's likely to try getting physical with anyone, not even the precognizent girl he likes, since he's probably too damaged to enjoy it. That and while Robin might like to twit the Leandros brothers to annoy them, I don't think he'll try getting physical with either of them any time soon. Much less Cal, for reasons already specified.
Hey, if I can grouse about bad fanfic, I'm doing well, non?
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Date: 2008-10-22 11:09 pm (UTC)