Now it's cheesy DEMON-HUNTERS, LOL. [nekare]

I am PMSing and crying like crazy over stupid shit. It's driving me mad. Today's tears were good though, as my brother finally passed his very last exam (it's the second time around, and if he hadn't, his name wouldn't have been called on his graduation on Saturday), and that means my little brother FINISHED HIGH SCHOOL, WOO, and it also means that I am OLD because I left high school three years ago. CUE MORE CRYING.

I read Cassie Claire --OOPS, sorry, Cassandra Clare's book, City of Bones. While it wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting it to be, it certainly isn't a literary jewel either. Also, zomg, girl, METAPHORS EXPLOSION MUCH? Honestly, dude, lay off them.

Thing is - the book is one GIGANTIC cliche. With a thousand little cliches on the side. It's well written and everything, and just like Twilight, it's pretty engaging (although the characters, while mary-sue-ish to the extreme, aren't nearly as awful as those in Twilight), but it's just so obvious, everything. It's all based on stereotypes, and it reads a bit like decently spelled fanfic for some weird fandom on crack, including all the ZOMG GOTH IS KEWWWL one expects in fantasy written by loser fourteen years old. Seriously. It is not important to the plot knowing that you're wearing fishnets and metal studed boots. Really. *eyeroll*

I guessed all the plot twist but one because I never thought a publishing house would actually allow it. Not in YA. o_O So that was weird. (if you've read it, you know what I'm talking about.)

BUT, in all, I sort of liked it, it's decent for a guilty pleasure, and I'll go and read the second book because this one's ending means there might be slasssssh, mmm, which might make it all better.

I never read the Draco Trilogy because a)I don't like Draco (I DESPISED him until HBP happened. Now I'm sort of fond of him in that LOL, LOSER way. Hee.) and b)because if there's something I dislike more than Draco, is DRACO IN LEATHER PANTS. EW. So I honestly don't have a point of comparison. If anything, out of the LULZ FANDOM HAS TURNED INTO REAL AUTHORS books, I read this one because unlike

ladyjaida, she got an actually decent graphic designer (the dragon illustration is okay. But that typeface, oh my god, and that horrible frame, jeez. I'm excited about it, but zomg. Fire that designer. Now.) I AM A FICKLE CREATURE, LEAVE ME ALONE.

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I haven't read it or plan to, what is it?

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The main characters, who made out rather a lot earlier in the book, turned out to be brother and sister. o_O Now THAT I did not see comin. Um.

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XD

As always, Incest is Best. >_>

I tried to read the Draco Trilogy. I tried hard, because everyone went on and on about it, but I could never even get to the end of the first part. It just never captured my attention, and there was always so much else to read. :D

And hah to that plot twist, that's hilarious. That is like the fanfiction I make up in my head in the small hours whilst sleep-deprived, over-caffinated and feeling angstful.

Also,

ladyjaida has a book coming out? Oooh, where and when?

Just the idea of Malfoy on LEATHER PANTS was enough to put me off it forever. Add up the fact that Cassie Claire is a prim bitch that made her fans buy her a laptop, well, that didn't help.

Seriously. I have lots of crazy ass stories like that in my mind, but I don't actually have them PUBLISHED, you know? XD

Yep! It's about dragons. Metal dragons. Or something. I'll have to download it as well because there's no way that's getting here, but I'm still sort of excited about it. Chech out her LJ, it's all she talks about these days, although I would do the same, lol.

Yeah, I never quite got that. (Although, admittedly, part of that was made up of "hey, no one ever bought ME a laptop. WHERE IS THE LOVE, FANDOM?" Stupid unrealistic expectations.)

QUITE. I still, in fact, have some of the stories that I wrote when I was 15 and, apparently, totally in the cliches. But I can count on one hand the number of people who read them, and at least one of them was me. I couldn't conceivably imagine a world where anyone would want to publish stuff like that, but it seems to exist.

Hee, ok, that's pretty awesome. Dragons, YAY. (Five years old, much? Sheesh :D)

What's the Draco trilogy about?

Stupid Malfoy prancing around in LEATHER PANTS and generally being distastful. And being wanted by everyone because his royal pastiness is zomg so SEXHAY. OR SO I HEAR. *shrug*

And this is an actual book? It sounds pretty retardo.

No no, that's just Cassie Claire's GIGANTIC and HORRENDOUS fanfic, which was half plagiarized from a silly romance book. Lol.

When I started reading it, I explained the premise to my little sister (she's 13) and read a page to her, and she immediately guessed the end, lulz.

although the characters, while mary-sue-ish to the extreme, aren't nearly as awful as those in Twilight
Haha true, although I have to say, for all his clever sarcasm and bad-assery and everything, I actually prefer Edward to Jace, because Jace is just, I don't know, annoying. The parts I liked best in the book were the glimpses of Alec/Marcus (? the warlock).

Looking back, it's really obvious, but I thought this was a TEEN book, so canon incest was the thing I expected least to find in it. o_O

Jace is just the Stereotypical Jerk, that's the thing - childhood trauma or whatever, he never gets any character development, poor guy, so in the end he's just mildly annoying. Alec/Magnus would be sort of awesome (mostly because Magnus was so fabulously awesome, haha), but I'm actually rooting for Alec/Jace. Because I am HOPELESS like that, lol.

Oh yes, Magnus, lol, I knew it was something like that. Actually, I'm all for Alec/Jace TOO. So much potential for angst and UST. I'm saddened there isn't fanfic about them (from what I've seen).

Exaaaactly, all that lovely UST and Jace being all WORRIED when Alec was dying and Alec PINING. It is prime fic material, lol.

But wait, there's ACTUALLY fic for this book? That's like, weird. And I bet all the people involved just want to suck up to cassie claire. UMMM.

YES. Or, I could see Jace making something happen out of guilt, to make Alec feel better and be nice for a change, and then going back to his normal jerk-ish behaviour and Alec being all 'WHAT THE HELL'. IDK.

Yeah, on ff.net at the very least, and they're all about whatsherface (Clary?) and Jace because incest is always a hit in fandom.

I've decided to make it a policy not to read published material by anybody with their own page in the Fandom_Wank wiki. I believe this is a core ideal that will serve me well in times to come.

But what will you MOCK, then? XD Well, it's lots of fun in a HAHA SO BAD way, but then again I like to troll f_w for fun, so... perhaps you're right in avoiding it.

I have an extreme backlog of Doctor Who novels all just waiting to burn into my subconscious. There is much to mock among the New and Missing Adventures...trust me.

I was planning on buying the book when it came out, but that never happened. Then I glanced at it the other day when I was at the bookstore, and decided against it. I want to read it, but it's not on the top of the list.

I read the first part and part of the second installment of the Draco trilogy. It was the first HP fanfiction I had ever read. I enjoyed it, I did. I was also 15, so there ya go.

She's an entertaining enough writer that I actually got through the first two parts of the Draco Trilogy when I was ... fourteen? fifteen? something like that. And when she finished the third one I figured I'd just read them all, and I started the first one again, and I couldn't do it.

I read excerpts of City of Bones, and the thing is, Jace? thinly disguised Draco Malfoy. By which I don't mean Jace has any resemblance to the Draco Malfoy written by JKR, just that Cassie had a character type and stuck with it. And I really, really didn't care. XD

The only "Graduated from Fandom" books I'm really interested in are

mistful's. Quality doesn't matter. She's just so damn hilarious.

Yeah, me too, although it still so far away... Boo for that.

It is not important to the plot knowing that you're wearing fishnets and metal studed boots. Really. *eyeroll*
depends.

I finished high-school ten years ago, Ale, so SHUT IT!

I'd like to know when the dragons book comes out because yay, dragons!

I THINK the gal said something like ZOMG IT'S IN LIBRARIES IN A WEEK ALSDKFJJSF. When will it show up in our part of the world, though, noooo idea. Me, I'll download it, lol.

a) Ugh, PMS - hope it gets not quite as awful soon.
b) Errr, info on typeface? Only on the cover, or is the lettering in the book itself awful, as well?

nekare

Now it's cheesy DEMON-HUNTERS, LOL.

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