Reading Wedn- Thursday
May. 9th, 2013 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigdhI have finally managed to track down a copy of Good Man Friday! On the one hand, yay! More Benjamin January! On the other hand, of course I have already finished it and now there is no more of the series to read.
I liked Good Man Friday more than Ran Away despite a grievous lack of nearly all my favorite characters, due to most of the plot happening in Washington DC. It continues the trend of this series of containing all the most id-ficcy and delightful potential of historical fiction: early baseball! insane asylums! spies! grave robbers! Edgar Allan Poe as sidekick! John Quincy Adams! secret codes! ladies disguised as dudes!
I also really liked getting to see more of Henri and Chloe Villard. Henri's attempts to be intimidating were hilarious, if more successful than I expected, and Chloe is made of so much awesome I can't even handle it. I had been looking forward to seeing more of her, and I hope she continues to play a part in future books. She is a beautiful, tiny heiress who is more concerned with solving math problems than with love, and is perfectly content for her husband to go off and spend time with his mistress, so she can get some reading done. I LOVE HER. She and Rose need to meet; I think they would be friends. Charmian is also adorable. I love her and her father's roach collection, and Dominique and January's reaction to said.
The only thing I wanted is the thing which I want out of every book in the series, and that is for Rose and January and Hannibal to live together in a big house and be a family and be happy and OT3 yes please. IT IS SO CLOSE TO CANON, YOU GUYS.
I actually listened to the audiobook, because no copies have yet shown up at any bookstore I can find. I was mostly happy with the reader, though I thought it was strange that she gave January and Dominique such wildly disparate accents (January having a slight Southern accent, Dominique a very heavy French accent). I think I would have given them both slight French accents, or maybe had Dominique's more pronounced, but in my head they should sound fairly similar to one another, being brother and sister and all. Shaw's accent was so wrong it hurt, but he was only in one scene, so that was not too terrible. I really hope they go back and do audiobooks of the earlier books.
Also, I'm basically going to keep posting about this until I convince someone else to read the books and form a fandom with me, so hopefully that's not annoying.
I liked Good Man Friday more than Ran Away despite a grievous lack of nearly all my favorite characters, due to most of the plot happening in Washington DC. It continues the trend of this series of containing all the most id-ficcy and delightful potential of historical fiction: early baseball! insane asylums! spies! grave robbers! Edgar Allan Poe as sidekick! John Quincy Adams! secret codes! ladies disguised as dudes!
I also really liked getting to see more of Henri and Chloe Villard. Henri's attempts to be intimidating were hilarious, if more successful than I expected, and Chloe is made of so much awesome I can't even handle it. I had been looking forward to seeing more of her, and I hope she continues to play a part in future books. She is a beautiful, tiny heiress who is more concerned with solving math problems than with love, and is perfectly content for her husband to go off and spend time with his mistress, so she can get some reading done. I LOVE HER. She and Rose need to meet; I think they would be friends. Charmian is also adorable. I love her and her father's roach collection, and Dominique and January's reaction to said.
The only thing I wanted is the thing which I want out of every book in the series, and that is for Rose and January and Hannibal to live together in a big house and be a family and be happy and OT3 yes please. IT IS SO CLOSE TO CANON, YOU GUYS.
I actually listened to the audiobook, because no copies have yet shown up at any bookstore I can find. I was mostly happy with the reader, though I thought it was strange that she gave January and Dominique such wildly disparate accents (January having a slight Southern accent, Dominique a very heavy French accent). I think I would have given them both slight French accents, or maybe had Dominique's more pronounced, but in my head they should sound fairly similar to one another, being brother and sister and all. Shaw's accent was so wrong it hurt, but he was only in one scene, so that was not too terrible. I really hope they go back and do audiobooks of the earlier books.
Also, I'm basically going to keep posting about this until I convince someone else to read the books and form a fandom with me, so hopefully that's not annoying.
