Welcome back LJ
Mar. 30th, 2011 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjornwilde Yeah LJ's back! Not very nice conking out on a slow work day. Still it was a good reality check to how much I read it and play.
Started on Moon Kissed, the first book of the Mercedes Thompson series and am enjoying it. It does read as if I missed the first book in the series but I don't think you miss out too much information. I like the premise for the series verses other Urban Fantasy with the super naturals being public. Basically it started with the Fae whose ruling body, the Grey Lords, decided man's technology had gotten too advanced and it was only a matter of time before human discovered irrefutable evidence of the Fae.
To head off a repeat of the Spanish Inquisition, the Grey Lords command the lesser and seemingly harmless Fae to out themselves to give the impression that Fae really aren't that bad, i.e. the brownie that cleans your kitchen is much less frightening than the hag that hangs out in the swamp. At this point in the books the Fae are the only ones who have exposed themselves but the Were's are soon to follow as soon as they can figure out how to spin it so they don't seem like such a threat. You can't quite pass off a werewolf as harmless.
In closing, saw this earlier today and almost posted it to the Milliways backroom as we used to have the traveling gnome as a patron.
Started on Moon Kissed, the first book of the Mercedes Thompson series and am enjoying it. It does read as if I missed the first book in the series but I don't think you miss out too much information. I like the premise for the series verses other Urban Fantasy with the super naturals being public. Basically it started with the Fae whose ruling body, the Grey Lords, decided man's technology had gotten too advanced and it was only a matter of time before human discovered irrefutable evidence of the Fae.
To head off a repeat of the Spanish Inquisition, the Grey Lords command the lesser and seemingly harmless Fae to out themselves to give the impression that Fae really aren't that bad, i.e. the brownie that cleans your kitchen is much less frightening than the hag that hangs out in the swamp. At this point in the books the Fae are the only ones who have exposed themselves but the Were's are soon to follow as soon as they can figure out how to spin it so they don't seem like such a threat. You can't quite pass off a werewolf as harmless.
In closing, saw this earlier today and almost posted it to the Milliways backroom as we used to have the traveling gnome as a patron.
