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* Game of Thrones behind the scenes photos of "Dorne"
-- Poor (awesome) Oberyn's widow, and older brother (spoiler speculation in post/comments)
-- Oberyn's daughters, "the Sand Snakes"
-- And, as Oberyn reminded last year, Tyrion sent Cersei's daughter to Dorne, where she's betrothed to a Dornish prince
* Haven't seen this week's Doctor Who, didn't make it back from the game until after 10pm (Bama beat Texas A&M 59 - 0, Roll Tide.) So as of the moment, I am still unspoiled for it.
* Speaking of football, if I were Notre Dame, I'd be pissed on losing the game over a penalty... and while it is an accurate penalty, it was STILL a 'pass interference on the DEFENSE' (where the defender couldn't have caught the ball anyway), so all in all... yeah, if I were a Domer, I'd be highly irked. And.... Florida's coach, Muschamp, is sooooo going to be fired soon. Being beat down by Bama is one thing, being beat down by a so-so Missou 4 years into your tenure and...yeah, I think his seat's so hot it must be on fire by now.
* Mixed reaction to this week's Once Upon a Time. As a whole, the episode seemed largely set up for the rest of the Fall Season/Frozen plot. I did laugh out loud at the human "lady and the tramp" extras slurping down spaghetti at the date restaurant, and the Sorcerer's Apprentice being turned into a mouse. Heh.
* On Revenge, felt sorry for Emily for the first time in forever. Andif David isn't faking ALL of his stupidity (not just part of it), I feel doubly sorry for her.
* Went shopping Friday. Didn't buy much (two blouses) but it was nice to have a half day off.
* Ended up reading both the Hoyte Sequel AND the Milan.
The Hoyte sequel, Darling Beast, was... nice. I was somewhat underwhelmed, though. I actually felt the set-up in the last book was better than this one. The author seriously glossed over that the hero had been raped. It's implied in this book, but it was really damn obvious in the previous book. And I thought the characterization was thinner than anticipated. It's a pleasant-enough book, but... ::shrug:: She really seemed to rush the ending, too. Enjoyable enough but not a rush-to-read-keeper.
Enjoyed Milan's Suffragette Scandal far more. I LOL'd at the section where the heroine called out the hero's 'manplaining' to her about her politics (it being set in the Victorian era, she of course never referred to it as mansplaining, but it was totally about mansplaining when she pointed out that everything he said about the obstacles to her political goals were about the male POV. )
The story follows a heroine who publishes a suffragette newspaper and is generally a political 'radical' (read Victorian feminist) such that a landed lord decides that he needs to put her in her place (tries to discredit her with accusations of plagiarism, trying to burn down her offices, etc.) The hero is estranged from his family (to say the least) who has returned to England because one of his childhood friends is also targetted by the plan to take down the heroine. (His friend writes for the suffragette newspaper as the paper's male columnist.) The hero's brother is the villain of the novel who, on top of being a misogynist out to take down the suffragette newspaper is happy to target the his brother's friend who happens to work for the paper. (The friend in this novel is the same character who appears in the biracial Victorian romance featurned in a 'later' novella).
The story also has a f/f secondary romance (that is somewhat underwritten but nice), an implied long-term m/m couple (who is also the hero's friend), and appearances by characters from previous books (most prominently the labor-union promoting Robert from The Duchess War).
All in all, I enjoyed this one as it features much of what I like about Milan's books.
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* Game of Thrones behind the scenes photos of "Dorne"
-- Poor (awesome) Oberyn's widow, and older brother (spoiler speculation in post/comments)
-- Oberyn's daughters, "the Sand Snakes"
-- And, as Oberyn reminded last year, Tyrion sent Cersei's daughter to Dorne, where she's betrothed to a Dornish prince
* Haven't seen this week's Doctor Who, didn't make it back from the game until after 10pm (Bama beat Texas A&M 59 - 0, Roll Tide.) So as of the moment, I am still unspoiled for it.
* Speaking of football, if I were Notre Dame, I'd be pissed on losing the game over a penalty... and while it is an accurate penalty, it was STILL a 'pass interference on the DEFENSE' (where the defender couldn't have caught the ball anyway), so all in all... yeah, if I were a Domer, I'd be highly irked. And.... Florida's coach, Muschamp, is sooooo going to be fired soon. Being beat down by Bama is one thing, being beat down by a so-so Missou 4 years into your tenure and...yeah, I think his seat's so hot it must be on fire by now.
* Mixed reaction to this week's Once Upon a Time. As a whole, the episode seemed largely set up for the rest of the Fall Season/Frozen plot. I did laugh out loud at the human "lady and the tramp" extras slurping down spaghetti at the date restaurant, and the Sorcerer's Apprentice being turned into a mouse. Heh.
* On Revenge, felt sorry for Emily for the first time in forever. And
* Went shopping Friday. Didn't buy much (two blouses) but it was nice to have a half day off.
* Ended up reading both the Hoyte Sequel AND the Milan.
The Hoyte sequel, Darling Beast, was... nice. I was somewhat underwhelmed, though. I actually felt the set-up in the last book was better than this one. The author seriously glossed over that the hero had been raped. It's implied in this book, but it was really damn obvious in the previous book. And I thought the characterization was thinner than anticipated. It's a pleasant-enough book, but... ::shrug:: She really seemed to rush the ending, too. Enjoyable enough but not a rush-to-read-keeper.
Enjoyed Milan's Suffragette Scandal far more. I LOL'd at the section where the heroine called out the hero's 'manplaining' to her about her politics (it being set in the Victorian era, she of course never referred to it as mansplaining, but it was totally about mansplaining when she pointed out that everything he said about the obstacles to her political goals were about the male POV. )
The story follows a heroine who publishes a suffragette newspaper and is generally a political 'radical' (read Victorian feminist) such that a landed lord decides that he needs to put her in her place (tries to discredit her with accusations of plagiarism, trying to burn down her offices, etc.) The hero is estranged from his family (to say the least) who has returned to England because one of his childhood friends is also targetted by the plan to take down the heroine. (His friend writes for the suffragette newspaper as the paper's male columnist.) The hero's brother is the villain of the novel who, on top of being a misogynist out to take down the suffragette newspaper is happy to target the his brother's friend who happens to work for the paper. (The friend in this novel is the same character who appears in the biracial Victorian romance featurned in a 'later' novella).
The story also has a f/f secondary romance (that is somewhat underwritten but nice), an implied long-term m/m couple (who is also the hero's friend), and appearances by characters from previous books (most prominently the labor-union promoting Robert from The Duchess War).
All in all, I enjoyed this one as it features much of what I like about Milan's books.
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Date: 2014-10-21 12:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-21 01:33 am (UTC)Thanks for the rec on the Milan, been flirting with it. I liked the Heiress Effect/Duchess War series. (Skipped the one that focused on rape - the Governess Affair, not a huge fan of novellas, they feel rushed to me for some reason.)