Header PromotionThe Lion King by Marjorie Liu (paranormal romance)
Stunning emotion and imagery.
I already wrote a review of this one so I would just like to do something more personal and say the k9nds of things I would not necessarily say in a review on Amazon..
I read this book when Glenn was in the hospital and I would come home. Well, I was so exhausted, that I really read this book sometimes 10 pages at a time. Under normal situations, I hate reading a book in small chunks..I lose the flow...even in books that have a kind of classic standard plot flow. This book had such dynamic, awesome imagery to me that it did not matter to me ---it stayed so vivid within my imagination.
An off the cuff comment --one of my all time favorite Medieval poems is The Wanderer --it just captures this most intense wonderful emotion of solitude and being away from one's community. Nothing I have ever read has really captured that...until I read this book. The hero, Karr, is from ages ago come back from the dead. He speaks a language no one else remembers. Communication is impossible. Perhaps the sole remnant left of an entire race now forgotten, Karr is alone in a way modern humanity never experiences. Marjorie Liu creates these absolutely beautiful, stunning images and for bringing this dynamic of solitude into a new, modern world so at odds with those sentiments. Anyhow, it was just awesome to see the emotion I saw in that Old English poem in this new, paranormal, modern, edgy context!
The narrative structure of this romance is edgier, more poetic than a traditional romance...and I love it! The emotions she provokes are so powerful to me. I think one of the powerful aspects of paranormal romance is that there might be more latitude for experimentation and freshness...and I hope that the popularity of the genre with more and more readers doesn't exert this kind of pressure that blunts the poetic power I see here.
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Merri (Merrimon)
“’Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.” – Ralph Waldo E
I have this book in my "soon
I have this book in my "soon to be read" pile. I love the cover! I've read one other book in this series and found it enjoyable. Very talented author.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. The ones who you least likely suspect are the ones who will betray you...feel the cold breeze!
I have read a couple by her
I have read a couple by her too and anxious to read the others I have by her too.
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Merri (Merrimon)
“’Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.” – Ralph Waldo E
I've read a few of Liu's
I've read a few of Liu's books and looking forward to find more on the backlist to read. Her books have many of the best otherworldly people in them. It is a pleasure to see her imagaination at work.
Joan
Hi everyone,
I read and loved her debut, Tiger's Eye, and just had to collect all her books from there on in. I've since read one or two more to this series, but sadly haven't made my way back to the others yet.
~ Kathy D - Team member of Novel Obsession