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Nice to see you like it too
=)

Yeah, this one was really in depth, really enjoyed it. :)

Whoa! 5!

It was good. I was verra pleased with the continuing development and the drama and "habeebti" and I want books for the secondary characters nao, darnit! *shakes fist* She also has a sensuous way with words. She never just settles for "blue" or "handsome," LOL. It's made for aesthetes, the visuals. :D

Lol. It's that high-class porn.

LOL! Quiet you!

Dude! Stop setting yourself up for it! Talkin' about it bein' all sensuous and sheeeeyt.

I said sensuous not sensual! Darn you! *shakes fist* LOL. Although it probably is that too.

"habeebti"??

sensuous, sensual, Potato, potahto - porn! (:

Vered wrote: ""habeebti"??

sensuous, sensual, Potato, potahto - porn! (:"

::spits iced tea::

Bah hah ha!

new_user wrote: "I said sensuous not sensual! Darn you! *shakes fist* LOL. Although it probably is that too."

Put.

Pipe.

Smoke it.

You keep shaking that damn fist. I'm waiting for you to tell me to gerroff yer lawn!

Habeebti...Arabic chica?

*hangs head* Okay, you win, LOL.

"Habeebti" ("beloved"), because the heroine's grandmother was from Morocco so she heard a few Arabic words from her mother in childhood. Raphael uses them because he knows how much those memories mean to her since her mother's death. I very much appreciated a heritage that is not intensely white -I see a lot of Anglo Saxon heroines, LOL- and especially appreciate seeing someone to whom I can relate, me! I never see any Arabic speaking people in UF or... anything, LOL. We're like chopped liver. Thanks to the media and a good deal of racism, I think a lot of authors are afraid of negative connotations or misperceptions. I've always liked that Singh has multicultural heroes and heroines, of all kinds.

Right! the H thing confused me. Cool (:

You are so right.
I have more to say on the subject but it’ll have to wait since it’s 2 am and I’m not a coherent enough.

I do think it’s cool that this writer uses multicultural characters, we need more of those.

And Habibti is a lovely word (:

new_user wrote: "*hangs head* Okay, you win, LOL.

"Habeebti" ("beloved"), because the heroine's grandmother was from Morocco so she heard a few Arabic words from her mother in childhood. Raphael uses them because..."

Ahhh...

Interesting! Very nice to see!

What other series are there that actually include other ethnicities? I know the book Crystal Rain (fantasy) I read last month is heavily Caribbean which was very cool.

There's the Eve series which features an Asian woman.

Kiyo is half Japanese.

Several have Native American characters.

Annnnnddddd...I'm pulling a blank.

Aside from the ones you mentioned, I know of Marjorie Liu's works, Shadowfae by Erica Hayes, Lynn Viehl's Darkyn and CE Murphy's Negotiator trilogy. And one historical PN, if that counts. As you can see, very limited, LOL.

Marjorie Liu. Do we like her?

I have heard mixed things. So I plan to try her myself. I'm holding out hope, LOL.

Good. You be the designated reader for that one.

:p

I think she might have a short in one of these anthologies I have piled in the corner...

No more good reviews!! Give me some 1-2 stars for the soul (and bank account).

LOL, V! You haven't seen my collection of bad reviews, have you?

I hereby agree to be the designated reader for Liu, LOL.

Designated reader, verified! Contract complete.

Lol. Who actually hopes for a 1 star review? This is getting serious...

::gets lost in labyrinth of towering book piles on way to kitchen::

Uh. Actually. Yeah. Read a bad book for a change.

LOL! Hey! You guys suffer that, LOL.

I live in fear of being smothered by tumbling tomes.

Nice alliteration.

LOL!

I had to go to the dictionary for that one (:

new_user wrote: "Nice alliteration."

:)