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springgreenSpoilers: For the soulmate pair in Daughters of Darkness
Disclaimer: Not mine!
Summary: The Trials and Tribulations of Ash Redfern: one. Ash: zero. The road to redemption is lined with potholes.
Notes: Written for Ziho for Yuletide 2008
Read How to Save the Day (sort of)
Series information
Night World is a yet unfinished (argh!) series of young adult Gothic fantasy crack by LJ Smith; I devoured them when I was a teenager and pleasantly discovered that they are cracktastically rereadable recently. The premise is that there's a Night World populated by witches, vampires, werewolves, and other such creatures, and the world soon evolves to encompass soulmates and the good Night Worlders who don't despise humans and/or toy with them and/or eat them. Daughters of Darkness is the second book in the series and the best: it has a lovely sense of humor about the many tropes Smith uses, along with one incredibly self-absorbed, fatuous, and mostly evil vampire and one human girl who loves astronomy and kicking people. Unsurprisingly, they're soulmates, but more surprisingly, neither of them falls swooningly in love.
Some commentary
This is fun fluff written a few hours before deadline with the same take on the humans/monsters theme running through my other stories this year, but with a sense of humor. Plus, I love Ash, but I love it when he gets kicked around more.
I am also fairly certain he would have a very difficult time wrapping his head around feminism, but I suspect that is required reading for anyone who's going to be Mary-Lynette's soulmate.
Disclaimer: Not mine!
Summary: The Trials and Tribulations of Ash Redfern: one. Ash: zero. The road to redemption is lined with potholes.
Notes: Written for Ziho for Yuletide 2008
Read How to Save the Day (sort of)
Series information
Night World is a yet unfinished (argh!) series of young adult Gothic fantasy crack by LJ Smith; I devoured them when I was a teenager and pleasantly discovered that they are cracktastically rereadable recently. The premise is that there's a Night World populated by witches, vampires, werewolves, and other such creatures, and the world soon evolves to encompass soulmates and the good Night Worlders who don't despise humans and/or toy with them and/or eat them. Daughters of Darkness is the second book in the series and the best: it has a lovely sense of humor about the many tropes Smith uses, along with one incredibly self-absorbed, fatuous, and mostly evil vampire and one human girl who loves astronomy and kicking people. Unsurprisingly, they're soulmates, but more surprisingly, neither of them falls swooningly in love.
Some commentary
This is fun fluff written a few hours before deadline with the same take on the humans/monsters theme running through my other stories this year, but with a sense of humor. Plus, I love Ash, but I love it when he gets kicked around more.
I am also fairly certain he would have a very difficult time wrapping his head around feminism, but I suspect that is required reading for anyone who's going to be Mary-Lynette's soulmate.