Yeah, not only do werewolves figure heavily in Fool Moon, but there are a variety of werewolves in it.
Having started Fool Moon, I am totally okay with that! I don't even remember why I was so anti-werewolf back when I first gave the series a try. Maybe I just hadn't encountered any werewolf stories that I liked. But, as I said in my post, I like them a lot better now.
Personally, I think most of the time when a particular author and character are singled out as having defined a genre it's an oversimplification. It doesn't matter whether the people being singled out are Tolkien and Frodo, Joss Whedon and Buffy Summers (I know, while the TV series wasn't launched until '97, the idea predates the first Anita Blake book,) and Jim Butcher and Harry Dresden. That said, I know what's generally considered urban fantasy these days is viewed as having begun to develop in the 1980's, and from the first Dresden Files novel in 2000 Butcher has drawn a lot of the tropes together in his series.
Yes to all of this. I think that when a particular author is singled out in this manner, it's not because the tropes and ideas haven't been used before, either separately or together, but because the author in question has managed to combine them and use them in an interesting way that strikes a particular chord with readers and other writers.
I haven't tried Libriomancer so I don't know how the two compare, but I'm guessing for a fair fight they need to be compared first book to first book. The latest Harry book was the 14th. He's been through a lot since that first book.
So I gathered, from browsing the recent book blurbs.
I recommend giving Libriomancer a try; it's fun and exciting and the characters are great. Isaac is both a competent badass and a complete geek. I think that you'll like him a lot.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2013-03-05 02:04 am (UTC)Having started Fool Moon, I am totally okay with that! I don't even remember why I was so anti-werewolf back when I first gave the series a try. Maybe I just hadn't encountered any werewolf stories that I liked. But, as I said in my post, I like them a lot better now.
Personally, I think most of the time when a particular author and character are singled out as having defined a genre it's an oversimplification. It doesn't matter whether the people being singled out are Tolkien and Frodo, Joss Whedon and Buffy Summers (I know, while the TV series wasn't launched until '97, the idea predates the first Anita Blake book,) and Jim Butcher and Harry Dresden. That said, I know what's generally considered urban fantasy these days is viewed as having begun to develop in the 1980's, and from the first Dresden Files novel in 2000 Butcher has drawn a lot of the tropes together in his series.
Yes to all of this. I think that when a particular author is singled out in this manner, it's not because the tropes and ideas haven't been used before, either separately or together, but because the author in question has managed to combine them and use them in an interesting way that strikes a particular chord with readers and other writers.
I haven't tried Libriomancer so I don't know how the two compare, but I'm guessing for a fair fight they need to be compared first book to first book. The latest Harry book was the 14th. He's been through a lot since that first book.
So I gathered, from browsing the recent book blurbs.
I recommend giving Libriomancer a try; it's fun and exciting and the characters are great. Isaac is both a competent badass and a complete geek. I think that you'll like him a lot.