This one is fun, quick, and fits easily in a purse so you can carry it on a plane. I finished three books on my recent flight from east to Midwest, and I am terribly behind on reviewing them. Earl and Duke are a vampire and a werewolf, respectively. They’re traveling along, broke and bored, when they decide to stop at a diner. The owner and sole waitress seems completely unfazed when a bunch of zombies break her front windows and shuffle in to attack […]
Needs more vengeance, fewer stupid people
This book was so aggravating I skipped to the end to see if it would be worth finishing (I never skip to the end). I skimmed some pages toward the end and saw that people were bleeding, so I thought if I plowed through the bothersome middle, there would be righteous vengeance at the end. I was wrong. There was not enough blood, and if there was, the wrong people were bleeding it. The Gate to Women’s Country takes place some time post-apocalypse, where the […]
It’s not always easy being a princess
I went into this expecting a fairy tale, and that’s what I got, although more along the lines of “let’s cut our toes off to fit into these glass slippers” rather than something Disneyfied. Lissar is a princess, quiet and shy, ignored by everyone in the kingdom because her parents are so beautiful and glamorous. The king and queen ignore her too, so desperately in love with each other they can see nothing else. Then the queen develops a mysterious illness, makes her husband promise […]
Flannery O’Connor’s great great grandmother
I’m not sure I would’ve finished all seven stories if I hadn’t been stuck on a plane, but I can’t say I regret the 35 cents I spent on this collection (yay thrift shops!). The first story in the book is the best one, and I was hopeful at the beginning, but then some later stories were awful or maddening. The first story is about a terrible flood in a town peopled by very poor farmers and one spa-full of very rich people. A local vicar […]
“Guerrillas in the myths,” really? Reaching a bit for that turn of phrase, bud.
Billy Harrow is an average joe, working at a natural history museum in London. He’s giving a tour on a normal day when it suddenly turns out that the museum’s latest prize exhibition, a preserved giant squid, is missing. Things get weird super-quick when a “special” squad of police wants to know about his connections with the magical underbelly of London, and a group of kraken-worshipping cultists want him to be their prophet, and pretty much all of London agrees that the apocalypse is nigh, […]
“It had been the most complex, difficult feat of mass-scale engineering humanity had ever accomplished until the next thing they did.”
I picked this up because of thewheelbarrow’s review, and I was not disappointed. Great writing, great story, great characters, great fun. I proctored a civil service exam last weekend, which basically meant I sat and read for five hours, with occasional breaks to glance up and look intimidatingly at potential cheaters, and then I just wanted to go home and read MORE. Detective Miller is well on his way to being washed up. You’ve seen his type before: rumpled, drunk, rarely putting 100% into any […]
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