Ah, Ran Away! I love this book so much. It's great to finally see Ayasha fro herself, and not just in a dream (though I do also really love the dreams in this book). The conversation between Rose and Ben at the very end is one of my absolute favorite things in the whole series; it just breaks my heart.
But there's a lot of funny bits in this book, too– I particularly love the rivalry between the two preachers, and the musicians' bet on whether their arguing counts as a duel. What is the joke with "La Chatte Blanche"? There's a lot of little worldbuilding details I like too: that Hannibal seems to be friends with Marie Laveau, that he knows about Ben and Rose's participation in the Underground Railroad (does he help them out sometimes, maybe by forging papers? Did they hesitate before telling him?).
Good Man Friday is also great! I do suspect that a lot of cursing is in French (or sometimes Arabic!) to make it sound less strong to an English-speaking ear, but of course that doesn't work for you.
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But there's a lot of funny bits in this book, too– I particularly love the rivalry between the two preachers, and the musicians' bet on whether their arguing counts as a duel. What is the joke with "La Chatte Blanche"? There's a lot of little worldbuilding details I like too: that Hannibal seems to be friends with Marie Laveau, that he knows about Ben and Rose's participation in the Underground Railroad (does he help them out sometimes, maybe by forging papers? Did they hesitate before telling him?).
Good Man Friday is also great! I do suspect that a lot of cursing is in French (or sometimes Arabic!) to make it sound less strong to an English-speaking ear, but of course that doesn't work for you.