The Immortals strikes me as a combination of Castle and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. I liked Castle until the romance ruined it. In The Immortals, there’s a relationship developing between Selene (aka Artemis) and Classics professor Theo, but it’s not quite clear until towards the end what exactly it’s turning into. Selene is an avenger of wrongs against women in modern day Manhattan as an unlicensed private investigator, and Theo is the academic rock star with a bit of a past who gets pulled […]
Devil in Details and Missed Chances
I liked Sandman Slim most of the time. It’s got an interesting premise of a not-fully dead human resident of Hell getting back to Earth, and trying to get revenge on the people who got him sent there. There’s also some interesting side-characters like Vidocq, Candy, and Dr. Kinski (in a very different version than the Coop stories). The various denizens of Hell who show up occasionally are pretty interesting, as is the gradually revealed backstory behind Stark’s trip to Hell in the first place. […]
Watered Down Pratchett Doing Columbo
Fifth Ward: First Watch is pretty standard in a lot of ways. It’s a standard fantasy story of the sort which largely takes place in a vaguely medieval city in which a variety of difference races interact including humans, orcs, elves, and dwarves. It’s also a standard buddy cop story in which the naive young trainee is paired with the gruff experienced veterans, they get on each other’s nerves a lot, but eventually through a series of trials become friends and partners. As is not […]
Evil Cupcakes meet Samuel Beckett
I guess I’ve been on a superhero update kick of late, but that’s ok. I’d picked up Heroine Complex in a bookstore before, but this time I actually went through with the purchase. Overall, I don’t regret the $7.99 I spent. This is a really female-centered story, which makes it an interesting twist on the genre. After a vague large-scale supernatural event, some humans have developed supernatural powers, and now some people make a living as such, or in Evie’s case, as the personal assistant […]
The Harry Potter Marvel crossover I never knew I’d love
So far I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve read by Drew Hayes, including Forging Hephaestus, NPCs, and the series following Fred the vampire accountant. I figured the time was right to try his other series, Super Powereds. After reading Year 1, my conclusion is only to wonder why I waited so long. I do have to day though, I can totally see the author of Forging Hepheastus in this, and a little NPCs, although I do realize Super Powereds Year 1 came out before either of those […]
The more I think about it, the worse this gets
The more I think about this story, the less I like it. At first read, The Cruel Prince is a pretty standard supernatural fantasy for teens. It’s got the Fey girl raised human and two human girls raised Fey, and all 3 are sisters. Taryn and Jude are the human twins, and VIvi is their slightly older Fey half-sister. Vivi of course prefers living as a human much to her Fey father’s annoyance, while Taryn wants to fit in with the Fey, and Jude isn’t […]
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