Here's a list of recent reads that I haven't reviewed yet
but have to return to the library!
Dead Streets by Tim Waggoner
- An unusual sort of zombie with his own free will, soul, and consciousness fights crime in the Underworld with his half vampire lover at his sort of not completely decaying side. Talk about 'til undeath do us part...or some such forever romantic nonsense...
Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning
- Bad FAE! Hooray! Not silly useless cherubic fairies.
I just hate it when I pick up a book, love the story and the characters but something like the third or fourth book into the series already). (More later. )
The Messenger by Jan Burke - Immortal guy who can talk to the recently dying meets female soul mate destined to share his powers and abilities and together they defeat a big bad. Nice cemetery dogs.
Ghost Ship by P.J. Alderman - Murder mystery with someone who can talk to ghosts. Ho Hum.
Flirt by Laurell K. Hamilton - Better than some recent writing. (More later. )
Karavans by Jennifer Roberson - Ok.
Witch and Wizard by James Patterson - Young Adult. Great subversiveness.
A Brush of Darkness by Allison Pang - (more later)
Must run to library now to return books before I get more fines...and get new books out to read of course.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Multi-catch-up summary list
Once again I've read a bunch of books and fallen behind on writing about them. None of them were truly outstanding or made a very deep impression on me. Most were just mildly entertaining - which explains why two of them were books I'd already read, and forgotten that I'd read. So this will be a short form catch up post summing up the bare bones of what I've read recently.
* Unusual Suspects ed. Dana Stabelow
Mixture of supernatural/mystery short stories by various authors. Not terribly exciting for me.
* Born of Ice by Sherrilyn Kenyon
I actually liked this one. It had some shades of Joss Whedon's Firefly to it, kinda sorta.
* Death Spiral by James W. Nichol
A WW II war vet comes home with an uncanny ability to discover "who done it" and why. And somehow he seems to be at the center of all sorts of murderous activity that suddenly breaks out in the sleepy village he has come home to. Quite entertaining. Canadian too eh. ;-)
* Dragon Mage by Norton and Rabe
An adolescent's book, but nevertheless, well written, full of fun and fantasy, ancient Babylon, and Dragons.
* Trick of the Light by Rob Thurman
I had forgotten that I had read this book a few years ago. I liked the main female protagonist, a kickass supernatural Trickster character slash bar owner, but I wasn't bored or desperate enough for entertainment to read it again so I guess I didn't like it *that* much. However, if I found another one of her books with the same character in it but a different story, I'd probably read it for fun.
* Seventh Witch by Shirley Damsgaard
Another book I had already read a few years ago. This one is almost a "cosy" supernatural mystery. It's ok. I definitely didn't like it enough to read it again once I'd realized I'd already read it.
* The Road by Cormac McCarthy
This is a post-apocalyptic novel following the struggles of a father and son to survive when civilization is destroyed. It's very dark, and it certainly suits my mood and outlook on the dismal future of the human race and our ongoing destruction of the planet at the moment.
* Unusual Suspects ed. Dana Stabelow
Mixture of supernatural/mystery short stories by various authors. Not terribly exciting for me.
* Born of Ice by Sherrilyn Kenyon
I actually liked this one. It had some shades of Joss Whedon's Firefly to it, kinda sorta.
* Death Spiral by James W. Nichol
A WW II war vet comes home with an uncanny ability to discover "who done it" and why. And somehow he seems to be at the center of all sorts of murderous activity that suddenly breaks out in the sleepy village he has come home to. Quite entertaining. Canadian too eh. ;-)
* Dragon Mage by Norton and Rabe
An adolescent's book, but nevertheless, well written, full of fun and fantasy, ancient Babylon, and Dragons.
* Trick of the Light by Rob Thurman
I had forgotten that I had read this book a few years ago. I liked the main female protagonist, a kickass supernatural Trickster character slash bar owner, but I wasn't bored or desperate enough for entertainment to read it again so I guess I didn't like it *that* much. However, if I found another one of her books with the same character in it but a different story, I'd probably read it for fun.
* Seventh Witch by Shirley Damsgaard
Another book I had already read a few years ago. This one is almost a "cosy" supernatural mystery. It's ok. I definitely didn't like it enough to read it again once I'd realized I'd already read it.
* The Road by Cormac McCarthy
This is a post-apocalyptic novel following the struggles of a father and son to survive when civilization is destroyed. It's very dark, and it certainly suits my mood and outlook on the dismal future of the human race and our ongoing destruction of the planet at the moment.
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