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I saw New Moon the other day. It reminded me that I had not yet read Mary Borsellino's new vampire book, Roads and Crosses. I bought it in a flurry weeks ago, and got distracted by assessments and family and work and so on, and it took New Moon to remind me. Which is sad, on many levels.
There are certain similarities between the two texts . Apart from oh, vampires, a couple of the main characters are in love and spend most of the book/movie apart, and you want to smack them into seeing sense. Also, oh, who am I kidding, New Moon was shit and the Wolf House is awesome.
Roads and Crosses is one of the darker, sharper books I've read in a long time, very much the winter to Origins and Overtures autumn. Everyone has to grow up and it hurts, beautifully. Of course, it's not all grim!dark!angst, it's a little warm and very funny and left me wanting more. More of Rorschachy Sophie, more clever but thick Will, more broken Bette and shining Tommy and Lily, who might be everything. Not to mention Rose and Jenny and Jay, and the Dandies, because well dressed vampires with schemes are my favourite vampires ever. All these people are written so wonderfully, so pitch perfectly, it's like you know them, have known them for years.
This book will make you smarter. It's full of facts (hearts don't burn) but also experience; it's full of life.
For a book about vampires, it has a lot of humanity.
TL;DR: BUY IT, BITCHEZ. It's insanely cheap, and Book 1 is on sale now. EVEN CHEAPER THEN INSANELY CHEAP.
There are certain similarities between the two texts . Apart from oh, vampires, a couple of the main characters are in love and spend most of the book/movie apart, and you want to smack them into seeing sense. Also, oh, who am I kidding, New Moon was shit and the Wolf House is awesome.
Roads and Crosses is one of the darker, sharper books I've read in a long time, very much the winter to Origins and Overtures autumn. Everyone has to grow up and it hurts, beautifully. Of course, it's not all grim!dark!angst, it's a little warm and very funny and left me wanting more. More of Rorschachy Sophie, more clever but thick Will, more broken Bette and shining Tommy and Lily, who might be everything. Not to mention Rose and Jenny and Jay, and the Dandies, because well dressed vampires with schemes are my favourite vampires ever. All these people are written so wonderfully, so pitch perfectly, it's like you know them, have known them for years.
This book will make you smarter. It's full of facts (hearts don't burn) but also experience; it's full of life.
For a book about vampires, it has a lot of humanity.
TL;DR: BUY IT, BITCHEZ. It's insanely cheap, and Book 1 is on sale now. EVEN CHEAPER THEN INSANELY CHEAP.