my "I'll do the EXACT OPPOSITE!" tendencies are still a thing

Asking for a random survey of what to write next has led me to start writing neither the thing that got the most votes nor the thing that I voted on myself. It's also the thing that is least likely to get, uh, any kind of reaction from anyone else. Yay, me?

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Anyway. Book report time! Rose Lerner's True Pretenses is a romance novel in which my favorite bits have very little to do with romance. Both hero and heroine are older siblings who basically raised a much younger brother; those relationships add a lot to the leads' characterization. I sort of want the exact same thing again? But different? Heh.

Didn't finish The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson. It's a YA adventure/romance with a runaway princess, a hired assassin, and a future king on the chase for his escaping bride-to-be. All of which sounds like fun! Too bad it really didn't work for me. Also, this is the first book in a series, so skipping to the end (as I did) isn't going to give a satisfactory conclusion to it.

The cover looks really great. Ah well.

Currently reading Paladin's Grace, by T. Kingfisher, which is... okay, imagine someone writing a romance/adventure novel set in Pratchett's Discworld. I'm enjoying this one so far.

*looks around*

Sudden realization that I'm not in contact anymore with my previous beta-readers from Person of Interest fandom. It's been YEARS since I interacted with the two women who beta-read my PoI stuff. Huh.

So. Anyone want to beta-read some Fusco-centric fanfic?

Also. How are Lizardbeth and Sabaceanbabe? Are they using twitter now? Because... *sigh* I don't wanna go to twitter, but I also miss people I used to interact with.