seraphcelene | (Reply)

I think her blessing is great, and fine, and I know it should mitigate my problems. But it's not that simple, and perhaps had I been better prepared for the changes (I expected the sort you expect from an adaptation, but not the degree) it would have helped. That's why I can't say anything bad about the movie but still can't love it.

Part of it is I feel so strongly about her work because it's so overshadowed yet brilliant. "Finally, someone's paying attention! Oh. It's just the title." It probably led to more people reading her work, but I'm coming from the p.o.v. of someone who'd been waiting for something like this for years and didn't really get it.

I'll try again... much later.

I'd recommend trying some of her other books, though, if you like "ya fantasy" that's actually pretty adult and reality-based. I've gotten

tkp to read several. Dogsbody is good if you like dogs; Fire and Hemlock is a retelling of Tam Lin; Time of the Ghost is good, too. Well, they're all pretty good.