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Post by Demeter on Oct 31, 2010 10:05:44 GMT -8
I'm just restarting this thread. It could go in the Romance section, but I think there's too much action/adventure to make it purely a romantic series (even if most of that action/adventure is driven by romance).
I'm really disappointed that we wont get the first chapter for Last Sacrifice until the end of November.
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Post by Lord Lovrina on Oct 31, 2010 21:09:41 GMT -8
^ I agree. There's a lot of action in it. I just recently began reading the book series. I'm still on the first book, and I won't be getting more until my birthday and Christmas, but that's if my dad remembers it.
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Post by Demeter on Nov 1, 2010 16:44:51 GMT -8
There's always the library.
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Post by Lord Lovrina on Nov 1, 2010 18:40:48 GMT -8
There's always the library. My local library shut down.
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Post by Demeter on Nov 1, 2010 19:02:05 GMT -8
There's always the library. My local library shut down. That's terrible! But now you can take the fucking annoying cover off and stick it in your closet.
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Post by Maldeus on Nov 1, 2010 20:02:02 GMT -8
So, I've been considering reading this. Life being what it is (especially in November), I don't want to make a commitment to reading something unless I'm fairly certain it'll be at least pretty good. So, apparently, this is a pretty good series for what it is, which means my only question is: What is it? I mean, apparently it's romance, action, and adventure, but those are broad categories. What kind of person would want to read these books?
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Post by Lord Lovrina on Nov 1, 2010 20:42:28 GMT -8
My local library shut down. That's terrible! But now you can take the fucking annoying cover off and stick it in your closet. I'm not sure how that would work because my dad was the one who bought me the book. Quick question: What are those dog things that appear in the first book? And do they appear in the later books?
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Post by Demeter on Nov 2, 2010 13:08:32 GMT -8
Psy-hounds are wolf-things with mental links, so it's easier for them to hunt in a pack.
No, they don't show up in any of the later books. Which is a little sad.
Okay, so Friday we had our school police officer come in to our Psychology class and he talked about psychology on the job, etc. He also mentioned hyper-awareness and the fact that you needed 18 hours to recover from a 10 hour shift.
And now I'm trying to fit this into how the guardians work, but it's really hard. For the officer, at the end of a 50+ hour week, he's so drained that he literally cannot make decisions.
I get that you have more stamina and are stronger if you're a dhampir. But that has nothing to do with their mental state - the only difference is that most dhampirs train for 15+ years for their job and grow up knowing that they're going to be protecting Moroi. How can they deal with a 12+ hours a day in that hyper-aware state, seven days a week? Why don't they get more vacation time - even if they just go about their lives and don't see a Strigoi for twenty years, the stress takes a good decade off of your life (and that's if you don't get depressed and kill yourself after you retire).
I'm just going to chalk this up to "Richelle didn't know about it."
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Post by Alice (PMD) on Nov 4, 2010 3:35:58 GMT -8
ARRGGHH!!! 32 days until it comes out!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!??!
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Post by Demeter on Nov 4, 2010 16:13:05 GMT -8
ARRGGHH!!! 32 days until it comes out!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!??! Ugh! I wouldn't be this antsy if I knew more about the spin-off series. Somehow, I think knowing would make the wait easier.
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Post by Alice (PMD) on Nov 4, 2010 23:46:41 GMT -8
Nah... if I knew what it was going to be about, I'd be running around going, "TWO YEARS!! FUCK ME!!" Dx
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Post by Alice (PMD) on Nov 5, 2010 20:18:46 GMT -8
What's this about the LS excerpt??
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Post by Demeter on Nov 5, 2010 20:38:43 GMT -8
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Post by Alice (PMD) on Nov 6, 2010 5:18:25 GMT -8
I love authors who have blogs! It's fascinating to hear all about how their lives are going! And Richelle's is pretty cool... now she just needs to get her ass back to Australia. -___-
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Post by Alice (PMD) on Nov 7, 2010 22:06:36 GMT -8
I THINK TASHA OZERA KILLED THE QUEEN!! Penguin paranormal released a teaser and it's about a character and the words are 'Loyal. Outsider. Murderer?' and it has fire in it!!
I really don't wanna believe that Tasha killed Tatiana... but it might be Christian. NO WAY. NOT EVEN THINKING THAT.
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Post by Demeter on Nov 8, 2010 16:32:06 GMT -8
Definitely not Christian. Arg, that idea kind of holds water. But I'm reluctant to believe it, because I still want to think Tasha is really a good person and Rose was just being a bitch when she painted Tasha as a grabby cougar in Frostbite.
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Post by Alice (PMD) on Nov 13, 2010 2:52:08 GMT -8
OMG SO EXCITED!!!!!~~~
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Post by Demeter on Nov 13, 2010 14:34:28 GMT -8
Yay! We're getting the excerpt in less than two weeks!
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Post by Alice (PMD) on Nov 13, 2010 21:54:57 GMT -8
GODDAMN, I WISH THEY WOULD JUST POST IT!!!1! D:<<
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Post by Alice (PMD) on Nov 16, 2010 4:05:34 GMT -8
About the VA movie: Is the book too long to stuff into 1.5-2 hours of film? Look what happened with Avatar: they tried to shove a whole SEASON into an hour and a half, and it seemed like only days passed between events instead of weeks, as Katara's voiceover described. They just couldn't stick somuch into such a small amount of time.
What are you opinions on the length of the movie? What important scenes do you guys wanna see?
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Post by Demeter on Nov 16, 2010 16:35:50 GMT -8
I don't even want there to be a movie. >.> I think they'd just screw it up.
If they did a 1 book = 1 movie, that would work. The books aren't that long.
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Post by Alice (PMD) on Nov 16, 2010 20:42:55 GMT -8
Yeah, I book per movie would be good. But I don't want Ben Barnes to be Dimitri. Just-- no.
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Post by Alice (PMD) on Nov 17, 2010 6:37:13 GMT -8
Yeah, I book per movie would be good. But I don't want Ben Barnes to be Dimitri. Just-- no.
Okay, I wanna breach the whole baby debate: Rose having Dimitri's baby (despite it being impossible).
On the AU VA forums, this very bright person came with with a theory:
It made me roll my eyes. Rose being shadowkissed won;t suddenly make her ovaries and uterus evolve and her DNA was definitely not changed when she died. She gained some new abilities, but no DNA changes. Why would death change her DNA anyways?
And Dimitri's DNA went back to dhampir when Lissa healed him. I like to think of the Strigoi DNA (or whatever you wanna call it) as little virus type things that basically freeze ageing, clot around the brain and block off all the good thoughts and eat away at all the goodness in you-- if I were looking at the medical and scientific perspective of it, which no one does because it ain't real and it's magic, not science, which is a totally fine concept to me. So, yeah, I consider Lissa's healing thing exactly that: she killed off all the bad Strigoi cells. His DNA went back to normal.
So, yeah... NO BABIES. Also, Rose is too young, loves being a guardian too much and will not be a good mother for the kid at this stage. When she's older-- maybe. But not Dimitri's kid. Adoption is a good choice, no? WHY DOES NO ONE CONSIDER THIS!?
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Post by Demeter on Nov 17, 2010 18:17:08 GMT -8
On the AU VA forums, this very bright person came with with a theory: It made me roll my eyes. Rose being shadowkissed won;t suddenly make her ovaries and uterus evolve and her DNA was definitely not changed when she died. She gained some new abilities, but no DNA changes. Why would death change her DNA anyways? And Dimitri's DNA went back to dhampir when Lissa healed him. I like to think of the Strigoi DNA (or whatever you wanna call it) as little virus type things that basically freeze ageing, clot around the brain and block off all the good thoughts and eat away at all the goodness in you-- if I were looking at the medical and scientific perspective of it, which no one does because it ain't real and it's magic, not science, which is a totally fine concept to me. So, yeah, I consider Lissa's healing thing exactly that: she killed off all the bad Strigoi cells. His DNA went back to normal. So, yeah... NO BABIES. Also, Rose is too young, loves being a guardian too much and will not be a good mother for the kid at this stage. When she's older-- maybe. But not Dimitri's kid. Adoption is a good choice, no? WHY DOES NO ONE CONSIDER THIS!? This. Dying and coming back to life? NO, THAT DOES NOT ALTER YOUR FUCKING DNA! Does no one else listen to their Biology teacher? The only way DNA can change is via mutations - which happen to the child when it's conceived. I can't really explain what happened to Dimitri in terms of dying/coming back to life, but that didn't alter his DNA. Also, if Rose were sleeping with someone who she could get pregnant with (Adrian, for example), she'd probably be on the pill (not to mention use a condom). Actually, I think she'd be on the pill anyway if she wanted to have a normal period - I've heard athletes skip (... but I'm not entirely sure why or if the pill would even help /fail).
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Post by Alice (PMD) on Nov 21, 2010 4:49:20 GMT -8
The pill wuld regulate her cycle. *shrugs*
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Post by Demeter on Nov 21, 2010 10:59:04 GMT -8
Whoo! I went to Richelle's site and she says that we might get the sneek peek on the twenty-ninth.
And she also says that the spin-off series will be in third person and have multiple points of view - including Sydney. ;D
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Post by Alice (PMD) on Nov 22, 2010 23:23:12 GMT -8
It should so be about Jill~!
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Post by Demeter on Nov 28, 2010 17:31:36 GMT -8
Twenty-ninth date is confirmed. The chapter will be up during business hours. (And it's the thirtieth for you, Alice.)
ETA: Where's Ren? This thread doesn't feel the same without her. (Ren is a girl, right?)
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Post by WolfBloodRei on Nov 28, 2010 19:18:55 GMT -8
Finished Spirit Bound! Epic win!
=3
Can't wait for LS to come out, though.
I saw that they were making a graphic novel of VA. pretty interesting, though not quite what I was expecting for character appearance =/.
Ah well. Beggars can't be choosers XD.
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Post by Lady Phoenix on Nov 28, 2010 21:04:27 GMT -8
I want to read this so badly. I only got to chapter 2 before life got in the way and I had to return the book, I want to read it through
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