And there was much rejoicing

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Big day yesterday:

Death Rejoices, the second book in AJ Aalto's Marnie Baranuik Files series (Amazon links: author & title), for which I did the editing, came out yesterday.

Obviously, I'm not remotely objective[1], though my review isn't some kind of hagiographic fawn-fest. :-)

It's cute, it's fun, it's gory, it's flirty, it's silly. There are high points and slow spots, but hopefully no gaping potholes. There's a fantastically hot sex scene and a couple of zombie labradoodles.


[1] For those who didn't click through to the amazon page for the book:

You think you know the paranormal romance genre, and then you run into this book. Part splatterpunk, part mystery, part farce, and entirely entertaining, it's got something for everyone - witty banter, sexual tension, creative vulgarity, and more clever characterization than three shelves of bodice-rippers put together.

If you're looking for Anita Blake, she's one aisle over towards knows-her-shit; if you want Sookie Stackhouse, she's hiding behind that hedge of helplessness, and if you want Anne Rice's vampires, they're either being outclassed by a guy who remembers Elizabeth the First but drives a Ferrari, or staked by the guy who's got Marnie's panties in a perpetually frustrated twist.

People who shouldn't buy this book include:
- You are averse to creative coprolalia
- You are afraid of spiders (or, at least, giant, head-leaping spiders)
- You feel sympathy for zombies
- You are uncomfortable being licked by Ogres
- You have had a fuzzy slipper sexually violated by a small rodent

People who _should_ buy this book:
- If all of the above sounds awesome

Comments

[felisdemens.livejournal.com]

Also: has added the phrase "Quit whining, you joyless shitpail" to my vocabulary. *joy*

[etcet.livejournal.com]

WIN.

There is also strong fan support for the phrase "calm your tits" to appear in the just-begun third book.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

As my to-read pile threatens access to the bedroom already, I've been ignoring all of Rafe's pimping of this series.

That line, however, is forcing me to reconsider.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I pimp it not because she pays me (there are marketing minions to do that for money) but because I enjoy it and want this crazy broad to keep writing.... even if she wasn't retaining my services to buff the weirdness to a shiny gloss.

Besides, at some point, she's probably going to bowdlerize my sorry ass and I'll get dismembered entertainingly four books from now. :-)

[felisdemens.livejournal.com]

It's a good series. I say that as someone with similar to-read pile issues.

[lizkayl.livejournal.com]

Woot