Now I have to read some Elizabeth Haydon
Just because I got curious, I went looking for reviews of Elizabeth Haydon’s books about Rhapsody. The one review I did read pretty much says the title character’s a Mary Sue, but then it goes on to say that one of her supporting characters happens to be the sort of archetypal character I adore. Anyway, so then I found an excerpt of Rhapsody on Tor’s website. It starts out with a scene from one of the bad guys. Having read it after reading the book review I found, my first reaction was, “OK, when is he going to say ‘Curses. I would have gotten away with it if it hadn’t been for those stupid kids.’” Which seems apt since the reviewer says that by the end every one of our three good guys pretty much becomes teh uberspecial.
BTW, my tape recorder has bitten the dust. I’m getting it replaced very soon, because I must have something to read… And I got another Year’s Best Fantasy collection which is thankfully narrated by a guy who sounds both fairly young and fairly American.
Oh, and note to self: It is completely OK if I decide that, to revive my flagging Nano, I should switch to the Pov of some random villain wannabe who can commit all the things on the Evil Overlord list.