Heart of the Dragon (or, well, something else of the dragon...*wink*)

[gategrrl]

Okey-dokey. I thought I knew a little bit about paranormal romances, but whoa, this takes it to a whole new level.

Gena Showalter has loads of her paperbacks in Target, and I picked this one up, mostly because the cover featured this guy sort of clawing the air, and his picture was overlaid with that printing shellac that shows up when light is reflected on it. And the blurb on the back had keywords like,

"Dragon: Atlantis: Shapechanger: Vampires: and Portals"....okay, I've loved the concept of Atlantis since I was little girl. Loved dragons, too. So, I skimmed. Interesting premise, didn't seem to overloaded with politics and worldbuilding (though I wouldn't know, since it was only a skim) and my first reaction was, holy cow, there really IS an outlandish paranormal romance for everyone. How unlikely is THIS combination of location and mythical beings? Eh?

No, I didn't buy it, since I've spent too much $$ on other books lately (not to mention Xmas presents) so...it'll have to wait. We'll see.

Right now I'm reading Wuthering Heights, and whoa. Talk about complex on every level.

Comments

[khek.livejournal.com]

My sister is speeding through tons of paranormal romances...it's so funny. She's been calling me to tell me what to read constantly.

The first time I read Wuthering Heights, I was in 9th grade and it was an English class assignment. I absolutely *detested* it then, mostly because I didn't understand it at all, and didn't have the capability of appreciating all the background and the romance. For some reason, I picked it up during my second year of college, and read it again. (It may have been for a class, but if it was, I don't remember writing anything about it.) I absolutely LOVED it then, and have read it several times since.

I hope you enjoy it!

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't think I would have enjoyed Wuthering Heights at all in school. Although, you know, I'm not sure if I read it back then. I don't have any feelings of de ja vue winding through the back of my head as I'm reading.

It's amazing how many layers of narration are in the story; how many levels of theme; how many interpretations of the Heathecliffe/Catherine romance there are; and so forth. It's really a very complex puzzle-box, or rubic's cube of a book.

I've been telling my 12 year old Twilight fan daughter that she should try reading this book (Meyer references it directly in her own books, which doesn't surprise me, given the Mormon interpretation to WH's). I think it would be much less of a slog than Twilight. But there are a lot of characters with the same name, and that can get very confusing to an inexperienced reader.