Heh. I have an unreasoning love for these books (and Dog Wizard and Stranger at the Wedding), and I wish she'd write more in the universe. The ending of Dog Wizard definitely leaves the possibility open, but it's been at least ten years, and I'm not holding my breath.
The whole plot doesn't really hold up to too much scrutiny ("It's magic! Turned into electricty! To power a computer! To do magic!"), but I think I imprinted pretty hard on the characters at exactly the right age.
I get that she is a computer programmer and not good with people and very normal, but that very ordinariness without any particular quirks made her feel like a placeholder for the reader.
Interesting. I love Joanna (and Antryg). I love that she's bad with people and vaguely distrustful of men, that she has a bad relationship with her mother, that she's quiet and prefers computers amd cats to people, and that she's brave enough to go rescue someone she's betrayed.
and how he is almost infinitely forgiving.
I think this comes from the fact that he has seen so much evil done in his life, and done a fair amount of it himself. It's a dynamic I also see in "Torchwood", which you probably don't watch, but one I find very appealing. But a lot of my view of Antryg's character comes from Dog Wizard, which actually gets into his POV, unlike these books.
But I was irritated that the homosexual character was sort of a villain
Yeah, though there is also a positive gay character, albeit a minor one. (Li, the colleague that Caris deals with for a few chapters, is a gay woman. I think that's her name.)
Anyway, I like this series better than either of her other ones I'm familiar with -- The Darwath trilogy, which is actually five books, or the books about Sun Wolf or whatever his name is. I even got to write in the universe for yuletide a few years ago. If I could get to my website at work, I'd link you, but I'll settle for passive-agressive self-pimping. *g*
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Wed, Aug. 29th, 2007 02:52 pm (UTC)The whole plot doesn't really hold up to too much scrutiny ("It's magic! Turned into electricty! To power a computer! To do magic!"), but I think I imprinted pretty hard on the characters at exactly the right age.
I get that she is a computer programmer and not good with people and very normal, but that very ordinariness without any particular quirks made her feel like a placeholder for the reader.
Interesting. I love Joanna (and Antryg). I love that she's bad with people and vaguely distrustful of men, that she has a bad relationship with her mother, that she's quiet and prefers computers amd cats to people, and that she's brave enough to go rescue someone she's betrayed.
and how he is almost infinitely forgiving.
I think this comes from the fact that he has seen so much evil done in his life, and done a fair amount of it himself. It's a dynamic I also see in "Torchwood", which you probably don't watch, but one I find very appealing. But a lot of my view of Antryg's character comes from Dog Wizard, which actually gets into his POV, unlike these books.
But I was irritated that the homosexual character was sort of a villain
Yeah, though there is also a positive gay character, albeit a minor one. (Li, the colleague that Caris deals with for a few chapters, is a gay woman. I think that's her name.)
Anyway, I like this series better than either of her other ones I'm familiar with -- The Darwath trilogy, which is actually five books, or the books about Sun Wolf or whatever his name is. I even got to write in the universe for