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.