If my husband and I have a "must-see" genre, it's the one where teenage girls do inappropriate things. Naturally, Pretty Persuasion was a must, with Evan Rachel Wood (from Thirteen) and a cover which boasts that "the devil wears a gray skirt."

( I would never say  )

Warning: This isn't going to be a review so much as a case-study of one girl's involvement with a series. This is because my introduction to this series, the Mary Russell books by Laurie R. King, affected me in a personal way. This is also because I only read this particular novel out of interest in the fandom itself, thereby rendering fairly irrelevant (to me) how I feel about it as a stand-alone work of fiction. Not to mention the fact a review of a series' fifth book means very little to those who haven't read the first four.
( that said... )