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[swordmage]

For the first time in what seems like ages, I sat down and read a book cover-to-cover. Granted, the book wasn't that long or anything, but it was still a nice length. The book in question was Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Veldt, which was basically about a girl trapped in a computer game. Unlike User Unfriendly, which is an RPG, this was an immersion-type game of the future.

As I was reading the book, it struck me that she's a rather talented writer, VVV. The first thing I read by her was Dragon's Bait, which contains probably the best argument for why dragons don't intentionally eat maidens. The reson? That maidens are offered. Why? because the leaders of towns and such are men.

But there was something about the book that just plain struck me. I really don't know what it was, but I liked it. The stories are never sappy, and the heros/heroines are good. They may seem a bit implausible at times, but VVV does a good job explaining them, and how the people in HA and UU get into the situations they do.

Damn it, it's only 11 and already I'm well onto the path of nonsense.

Probably doesn't help that my maternal unit is kicking me off as we speaktype.

*sighs dramatically*

Later

Comments

[inkpuddle.livejournal.com]

Hmm...I'm not too sure if I'd like the computer game business. I'm more of a fantasy-genre person--which is why I loved Dragon's Bait. But she is a very good writer, at least from what I've read. :)