I'm trying to get hold of the "Being Human" series since I've heard good things about it, but until Netflix has it available, I fear I won't be able to. I'd like to see that.
I'll admit that the Kitty books were better at the internal logic deal that most. I appreciated, for instance, that she says that a person stays the same mass when a wolf, so a 140 pound woman is a 140 pound wolf and invokes the conservation of mass as the reason why. Because it made sense. It didn't force me to forget all I know about science (and living with a forensic scientist, I know so much!).
This is also one of the things that I liked about the Jossverse in the later seasons of Angel. There was an attempt to sort of show that science and magic are married to each other, that the rational exists side by side with the irrational and that sometimes, they are one in the same. Of course their science was bunk sometimes, but at least they tried.
I can't remember if the Harrison books deal with any of these questions, mostly because I gave up on them very quickly as bad writing in general.
You are not wrong about the bad writing. I'm trying my best just to get through the first book and it's been a chore. I don't think they're well written, and the heroine is the embodiment of everything that annoys me about the latest trends in urban fantasy heroines.
She's self-obsessed, too dumb to live, her looks are every Mary Sue I Ever Wrote (the bright red hair that's an oft mentioned feature and the green eyes? Please, Harrison, I did that crap when I was 12), doesn't think before she acts and thinks that's somehow a virtue, doesn't seem to care about the consequences that her actions have on other people, labels herself as good at her job when she's really not, and generally has a hard time acting like a rational adult.
What's sad is that all these heroines would make stunning villains or comic reliefs, but unfortunately, for some reason, they keep getting starring roles.
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I'll admit that the Kitty books were better at the internal logic deal that most. I appreciated, for instance, that she says that a person stays the same mass when a wolf, so a 140 pound woman is a 140 pound wolf and invokes the conservation of mass as the reason why. Because it made sense. It didn't force me to forget all I know about science (and living with a forensic scientist, I know so much!).
This is also one of the things that I liked about the Jossverse in the later seasons of Angel. There was an attempt to sort of show that science and magic are married to each other, that the rational exists side by side with the irrational and that sometimes, they are one in the same. Of course their science was bunk sometimes, but at least they tried.
I can't remember if the Harrison books deal with any of these questions, mostly because I gave up on them very quickly as bad writing in general.
You are not wrong about the bad writing. I'm trying my best just to get through the first book and it's been a chore. I don't think they're well written, and the heroine is the embodiment of everything that annoys me about the latest trends in urban fantasy heroines.
She's self-obsessed, too dumb to live, her looks are every Mary Sue I Ever Wrote (the bright red hair that's an oft mentioned feature and the green eyes? Please, Harrison, I did that crap when I was 12), doesn't think before she acts and thinks that's somehow a virtue, doesn't seem to care about the consequences that her actions have on other people, labels herself as good at her job when she's really not, and generally has a hard time acting like a rational adult.
What's sad is that all these heroines would make stunning villains or comic reliefs, but unfortunately, for some reason, they keep getting starring roles.