Of COURSE. Hypatia, Lucrezia Borgia, and Sei Shonagon are hanging out there, too. Tea, cakes, and disproportionate amounts of feminism for all involved.
Sidhe, gotcha, even more fun. Well—I've read good fae books and bad fae books, but the good ones are STUNNING and it's such a giant gorgeous mythology to play with. Backstory is the best, too. (To wit, in the Buffy realm, I flail ALL OVER THE PLACE about the fanged four. It's an inevitability.) History + mythos + complicated dynamics all in one place = the best thing ever.
I know! I feel like I mostly read books about charming hipsters, but by gosh, there's no one else writing those books! Fantasy's all over the place, though, and some of it's fantastic. Like I'm a Richelle Mead stan: she writes vampire lit with embarrassing covers (YA needs new cover-makers in general), but she's a Russophile and a mythology/religion freak, her worldbuilding is solid, her vampire political system is full of complicated corrupt monarchy, and her heroine is a full-fledged badass. Things to love.
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Sidhe, gotcha, even more fun. Well—I've read good fae books and bad fae books, but the good ones are STUNNING and it's such a giant gorgeous mythology to play with. Backstory is the best, too. (To wit, in the Buffy realm, I flail ALL OVER THE PLACE about the fanged four. It's an inevitability.) History + mythos + complicated dynamics all in one place = the best thing ever.
I know! I feel like I mostly read books about charming hipsters, but by gosh, there's no one else writing those books! Fantasy's all over the place, though, and some of it's fantastic. Like I'm a Richelle Mead stan: she writes vampire lit with embarrassing covers (YA needs new cover-makers in general), but she's a Russophile and a mythology/religion freak, her worldbuilding is solid, her vampire political system is full of complicated corrupt monarchy, and her heroine is a full-fledged badass. Things to love.