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May. 16th, 2010 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreSo that ridiculous book I was reading? I finished it.
You will be happy to know that Andrej graduated from torture school. And that the soldier-slave guy he has the freaky intense relationship with (Joslire) is going with Andrej to his next assignment, which will be on an actual space ship. And Joslire gave Andrej his religiously significant knives (Joslire is a warrior-society guy originally and they kinda worship their throwing knives, I guess?) and Andrej has sworn Joslire to him in the Ways of His People, which apparently involve symbolic blood exchanges and kissing. And he wants Joslire to be his liege man forever but he can't tell Joslire that because Joslire isn't free. Also, Andrej is pretty sure that Joslire thinks that Andrej is a monster because of that whole graduated-from-torture-school thing. He has angst. And Andrej doesn't know that the knives Joslire gave him are basically, y'know, symbolically his soul. Also, there was a bit where Andrej was having nightmares (due to the being-at-torture-school thing) and woke up with Joslire holding him. Did I mention the symbolic kissing?
The book does not so much have a plot, really, other than Andrej-is-at-torture-school but, well. ::points to the above paragraph:: I'm not really certain that I need one. Any book that decides to hit my bulletproof kink* that hard doesn't really require a plot.
I ordered the rest of the series yesterday, as I managed to find all of the books for about 5 cents each plus shipping. I really hope that next one gets here soon.
*Which I probably do not need to spell out as it's kind of glaringly obvious, but is the liege lord/liege man thing. Seriously, you give me any two people where one of them wants to devote him/herself to the other's service and you have immediately found the relationship in the source that is most interesting to Sara. There doesn't have to be anything remotely sexual involved: just that kind of wholly devoted loyalty. I tend to call it minionry, as for whatever reason it tends to show up in ways I like best between evil people, but the evil is not required. See also: Frodo and Sam (probably formative), Dracula and Renfield (ahahaha), Scorpy and Braca, Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, occasionally Holmes and Watson ("You know," I answered with some emotion, for I have never seen so much of Holmes's heart before, "that it is my greatest joy and privilege to help you."), et cetera ad infinitum.
You will be happy to know that Andrej graduated from torture school. And that the soldier-slave guy he has the freaky intense relationship with (Joslire) is going with Andrej to his next assignment, which will be on an actual space ship. And Joslire gave Andrej his religiously significant knives (Joslire is a warrior-society guy originally and they kinda worship their throwing knives, I guess?) and Andrej has sworn Joslire to him in the Ways of His People, which apparently involve symbolic blood exchanges and kissing. And he wants Joslire to be his liege man forever but he can't tell Joslire that because Joslire isn't free. Also, Andrej is pretty sure that Joslire thinks that Andrej is a monster because of that whole graduated-from-torture-school thing. He has angst. And Andrej doesn't know that the knives Joslire gave him are basically, y'know, symbolically his soul. Also, there was a bit where Andrej was having nightmares (due to the being-at-torture-school thing) and woke up with Joslire holding him. Did I mention the symbolic kissing?
The book does not so much have a plot, really, other than Andrej-is-at-torture-school but, well. ::points to the above paragraph:: I'm not really certain that I need one. Any book that decides to hit my bulletproof kink* that hard doesn't really require a plot.
I ordered the rest of the series yesterday, as I managed to find all of the books for about 5 cents each plus shipping. I really hope that next one gets here soon.
*Which I probably do not need to spell out as it's kind of glaringly obvious, but is the liege lord/liege man thing. Seriously, you give me any two people where one of them wants to devote him/herself to the other's service and you have immediately found the relationship in the source that is most interesting to Sara. There doesn't have to be anything remotely sexual involved: just that kind of wholly devoted loyalty. I tend to call it minionry, as for whatever reason it tends to show up in ways I like best between evil people, but the evil is not required. See also: Frodo and Sam (probably formative), Dracula and Renfield (ahahaha), Scorpy and Braca, Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, occasionally Holmes and Watson ("You know," I answered with some emotion, for I have never seen so much of Holmes's heart before, "that it is my greatest joy and privilege to help you."), et cetera ad infinitum.
