I don’t know why you title your book The Hangman’s Daughter and then make the main character the hangman, but that’s what happened here. It didn’t ruin the book for me, but every time the daughter appeared, I got my Nancy Drew on and combed the pages for clues, because, surely, as the titular character, something about her must be the key to this murder mystery. That was not the case. A bit about hangmen in the 1600s: Jakob Kuisl, the hangman in our story, […]
A Swing and a Miss
Fitzhugh’s Pest Control and Heart Seizure were hilarious and fantastic. Then I hit Organ Donors and figured it must have been a fluke of not great writing. Then I read Fender Benders and now I don’t know if the good ones or the bad ones are the flukes. Or maybe I just really hate country music and that influenced my opinion on this one. Eddie Long is determined to be a country music star, at any cost, but after years of playing dive bars and […]
Same Bartimaeus, Different Century
I think I read the original Bartimaeus trilogy back in Cannonball IV. It’s definitely a series you need to read before trying to get into this one, which is a prequel. If you have read the series before, you know that humans bind demons to do their bidding, which doesn’t make demons very enamored of humans and on more than one occasion, a demon has found a loophole in his contract and eaten his slaver. Bartimaeus fancies himself as the best demon to ever demon, […]
If Dead Zombie Presidents Don’t Tickle Your Fancy Then You Might be Dead Inside
I don’t even know where to begin with this book. It’s got zombie presidents, people. Zombie Taft, Zombie Washington, Zombie Roosevelts, you get the picture. There’s also the ghost of Ben Franklin, being a creepy perv ghost that we all knew he’d be too. Also, chimichangas! So due to the poor PR of Captain America decapitating a dead zombie president, SHIELD has to call in some less than stellar hero to take care of the walking dead presidents. Enter Deadpool, the merc with a mouth, […]
Begging to be on the BBC
If Chief Inspector Barnaby can have his own TV series, that continues even after he left the show, then I see now reason Henry Tibbett couldn’t have his own series set in the 50’s-60’s. Or at least have just this book filmed. Mark Gatiss needs to add playing another weird eccentric to his resume. The book revolves around the kooky Manciple family, even though none of them are the murdered party. The victim is Raymond Mason, nouveau riche in the village who has his eyes […]
Jack Be Rapey, Jack Be Quick
Somewhere, in one of the volumes of Fables before this one, Jack of the Tales split and got his own series. I’m not exactly sure where that happened as Jack is not a character I particularly cared about and now that he’s back (for a limited time), I’m even more inclined to wish he would be set on fire. Jack’s past gets revealed quickly and with not much detail, which is probably means you should’ve been reading his series concurrently with the main Fables tales. […]
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