I am sure I would enjoy Buffy, but it's such a long series that I hesitate to start watching it, especially since I am such a slow television watcher. Maybe some mythical day when I have lots of time left over...

I tried the first book of that Tanya Huff series after you recced it to me a while ago, but it didn't really grip me--I can't put my finger on why. Maybe it's that the aliens didn't feel like actual aliens somehow? Like, there was this lizard species that had the same military organization as humans down to the division between commissioned and non-commissioned officers. I suppose I like my aliens a little more alien? Or maybe it was something else--it's not like I always want my science fiction super serious and realistic or anything. But for whatever reason, they didn't stick with me.