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My Lady Quicksilver
by Bec McMaster
7/4/2017
Yeah, pretty much everything I said last time. I liked the politics on reread more than I did the first time around. But the whole seducing-him-as-Mercury-and-Rosa thing was...weird? And I kept being like "Uh. Lynch? You're meant to be this amazing investigator who solves all kinds of badass cases. And yet you can't tell that you're making out with the same woman??
I mean, I know he doesn't suspect that it's the same woman. But surely at SOME point, you'd be like "Hang on a second. This boob looks a LOT like the one I saw yesterday???" But no. Apparently getting a boner makes his brain stop working and he never once suspects a thing. Cool.
Anyway. It's decent enough, but definitely my least favourite of the series.
16/11/2014
Meh? Slightly better than meh?? IDEK, you guys. I really enjoyed the first two books in this series. They were essentially paranormal steampunk smut from start to finish, but they were really fun. This one was a big shift in that it didn't involve any of the main characters from the first two books. Well. There was one. And she was in it for a red hot second. So it was a reasonably big adjustment to jump into this one with totally new characters. Add in the fact that this one was more...political??...than the others, and the fact that Rosa is effectively trying to seduce Lynch with two different identities, and I wasn't entirely down with it.
Look, I love the world McMaster has created. It's fabulous. And there was a lot of this that was pretty steamy. I just didn't enjoy the characters as much as the previous two books, which hampered my enjoyment of it. (Although I'm already pretty psyched about the couple featured in book 4)
So yeah. It was fine. But it didn't live up to my expectations from the previous books in the series.
Yeah, pretty much everything I said last time. I liked the politics on reread more than I did the first time around. But the whole seducing-him-as-Mercury-and-Rosa thing was...weird? And I kept being like "Uh. Lynch? You're meant to be this amazing investigator who solves all kinds of badass cases. And yet you can't tell that you're making out with the same woman??
I mean, I know he doesn't suspect that it's the same woman. But surely at SOME point, you'd be like "Hang on a second. This boob looks a LOT like the one I saw yesterday???" But no. Apparently getting a boner makes his brain stop working and he never once suspects a thing. Cool.
Anyway. It's decent enough, but definitely my least favourite of the series.
16/11/2014
Meh? Slightly better than meh?? IDEK, you guys. I really enjoyed the first two books in this series. They were essentially paranormal steampunk smut from start to finish, but they were really fun. This one was a big shift in that it didn't involve any of the main characters from the first two books. Well. There was one. And she was in it for a red hot second. So it was a reasonably big adjustment to jump into this one with totally new characters. Add in the fact that this one was more...political??...than the others, and the fact that Rosa is effectively trying to seduce Lynch with two different identities, and I wasn't entirely down with it.
Look, I love the world McMaster has created. It's fabulous. And there was a lot of this that was pretty steamy. I just didn't enjoy the characters as much as the previous two books, which hampered my enjoyment of it. (Although I'm already pretty psyched about the couple featured in book 4)
So yeah. It was fine. But it didn't live up to my expectations from the previous books in the series.