Anya

LOOK. IT IS LIKE HAVING MAYA FANFIC AGAIN. ONLY IT IS FANFIC OF HER VERY OWN BOOK! ONLY OF COURSE THAT MAKES IT CANON. I AM SO CONFUSED BUT ALSO VERY HAPPY. (but you don't really need to read The Demon's Lexicon. Though you should think about it.)

*cough*

I love this story in myriad ways. I love Marie and I love Olivia and I love their relationship and I love the depth of the characters and the empathy and feeling it inspires in such a short amount of time. I especially love Olivia, who is a little bit villainy and a little bit sad and tres mysterious in TDL but is really only made real and deep for me with this story. It strangely reminds me of a Jacqueline Wilson book I read recently, because Jacqueline Wilson is the only other author I have read in recent times who conjured up the same feeling of I have met these people, these are people I went to school with, I am identifying like mad right now. I have met the intimidatingly beautiful girl, and I've liked her despite having reason not to, and I know that boy who's magnetic and mesmeric but unattainable and that's sort of alright. Only, of course, there is magic, and a Darker Context if you've read The Demon's Lexicon, and it's so much what is cool about urban fantasy.

I heart it to little pieces.

And now, I am off to the land of no internets and much sambuca. I will be back in four days. Hopefully with time to sign up for the Snarry_LDWS but my schedule will thank me if it turns out I can't. Night all!