Guy Gavriel Kay is always readable and reliable, but this one wasn’t my favorite. It’s got his usual epic- and destiny-laden battles and true loves, but he’s trying to write like his characters, and it bogs it down a bit. Also, there are some time-jumps that are a little jarring. But overall, a very good read, if a bit of an investment. River of Stars isn’t a direct sequel, but takes place a couple hundred years after Under Heaven, which I read, liked, and remember […]
Happy benevolent aliens…as long as you play along
The bare bones of the story of Imago kind of remind me of V, where the lizard people take over Earth. Except there’s no Marc Singer OR Morena Baccarin, and Octavia Butler is much much better at storytelling, and at shades of gray. The Oankali landed on Earth generations ago (I started on book 3; I assume the first two tell the tale). They are a race of traveling scientists/healers. They land, study the new planet, mate with the natives, incorporate all the shiny new […]
A three-star Pratchett? Inconceivable!
I’ve been wrestling with this one for a few days. I liked it, but I didn’t loooove it, and it hurts me not to love a Terry Pratchett book. I don’t know if it’s because of Stephen Baxter’s co-authoring, or because of the spitefulness of the universe trying to strike down one of the planet’s best authors with Alzheimer’s (he got knighted for services to literature! how cool is that?), or if Pratchett was trying something new, but this book didn’t sing like his normally do. His […]
“Having to murder you would make me unhappy.”
Felix Castor is an exorcist who’s been having second thoughts about his profession. He has no idea where the ghosts go afterwards, and who is he to decide their fate? As long as they’re not harming anyone, he’s content to let them be. Demons and other beasties that delight in causing harm, however, are another story. This is book four of the Felix Castor stories, and it has all the familiar faces: zombies, a succubus (who provided the title quote), Felix’s demon-infested best friend, his […]
Don’t judge this book by its mega-cheesy cover
I learned how to put a picture in a review just so you guys could see how bad this is. This is not a book I ever would have picked up on its own (the cleavage! the moistness!), but since it was loaned to me by someone whose opinion I trust (thanks Mom!), I forged on despite the cheese. While I’m being judgy, the blurb is pretty hokey too: “Mercy Thompson’s sexy next-door neighbor is a werewolf. But then, Mercy Thompson is not exactly normal […]
Like being raised by wolves, only with more history lessons
I’ve always kinda felt like I’m not enough of a Neil Gaiman fan. I love love love Neverwhere, and I liked the Sandman comics. Everything else I’ve been kind of meh about. I feel like a bad geek! The Graveyard Book might change my mind, though. This book made me wish I had three-hour lunchbreaks and no bedtime. I was tremendously anxious to find out what happened next at every step of the way, but I didn’t want it to end. Nobody Owens is a little […]
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