Tag: scarlet

In the E-Mail: Elusive.

It is a banner week for other people’s books! This one is Genevieve Cogman’s ELUSIVE, which is an “electrifying retelling of the Scarlet Pimpernel packed with magic and vampires.” I just got it in my email, so I don’t know yet about ‘electrifying,’ but SCARLET (the first book in this series) was quite fun, so the omens are good. I haven’t entirely decided whose side I’m on yet, though. Bloodsucking vampires versus the Committee for Public Safety isn’t exactly what you’d call a high-contrast contest.

#commissionearned

Preordered: ELUSIVE (The Scarlet Revolution Book 2)

I’ve been looking forward to the sequel to SCARLET (which is explicitly “The Scarlet Pimpernel, with vampires”) for a while now. Genevieve Cogman is an old friend from the In Nomine fan days, and she’s always been a crackerjack writer. SCARLET itself was page-turning fun. At the time, I called it a “discerning, yet loving look at the original source material,” and I stand by that. That being said: now that the setting has been established*, it’s time for MOAR VAMPIRES.

#commissionearned

*I admit to being slightly torn: humans should be on top of the food chain, but the Reign of Terror was called that for a reason. One wonders what the Founding Fathers made of vampires, in this setting. Not that I can insist that a British author drop everything and narratively rush across the Atlantic, just to tell the former colonists’ story…

In the (E-)Mail: @GenevieveCogman’s SCARLET.

SCARLET dropped last night, while I was asleep. Basically, it’s THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL, with vampires. Geneiveve Cogman and I go all the way back to the days of automated email digests for obscure tabletop RPGs*. I’d be looking forward to reading this even if we didn’t; I’m all about THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL, with vampires. I figure I’ll spend the morning reading this, and recommend just that for the rest of you, too.

#commissionearned

*And here we are, now. Novel writers! Who would have thought it? …Well, we did.

Book of the Week: SCARLET.

It’s funny: I would normally presume on old acquaintance and discreetly hint that Genevieve Cogman might pass along an advance review copy of her upcoming vampire alternate Scarlet Pimpernel novel Scarlet – we’re both old In Nomine hands, after all. At the same time, though, I want her new book to sell when it comes out in May, so that same past history is arguing against said presumption. I have it on pre-order, and I’ll undoubtedly order it in paperback, once I’ve read the Kindle. I’m okay with that.