Slippery Creatures discussion

[vae]

It's been a week! (and oh what a week it's been)

Let's discuss Slippery Creatures. Here be spoilers in the comments!

Did you love the characters? The world? The plot? Have you read other KJ Charles books that you'd compare it with? Things that are in common with other books? Things that are new? How do you feel about it being the first book of a trilogy and how this one ends taking that into account?

Comments

[jenett]

I just finished it late last night!

For reasons that might be obvious if you poke around my profile I have Opinions about the awesome potential of the 1920s for romance and people trying to figure out how the world works now, and this book delivers all of that in spades.

I really loved how Will starts out just trying to get by, and then has to expand what he's thinking, and his assumptions about people. And I adore Kim, with all his sharpness and his flaws, and I'm really wanting the next books to learn more precisely about how he got to be as he is. I agree with therru, above, about how damaged he is. (And Phoebe is just delightful, and clearly sharper than she lets on.)

I also really liked the HFN here - it's satisfying, but it's also realistic that they're not just going to sort everything out tidily with a bow on it. Will's made it clear he doesn't like sneaking around (and Kim has been under misapprehensions about Maisie). And all of them have their own bits of stuff they really need to sort out even if they don't want to.