I love Catherynne Valente’s prose. She is just plain brilliant. But I can’t for the life of me figure out why they decided to call this book “Six-Gun Snow White” when hundreds of other, non-cheesier titles were available. Written in cornpone dialogue in 3rd person, this book reads like someone transcribed a story by Gabby Hayes. All the things you might be looking for in a western reboot of the Snow White Myth are slightly here. Very well done and entertaining. Ending is kind of […]
Did you know the Hound of the Baskervilles was half mechanical?
The final volume (#3)of The Baskerville Affair series, A Study in Ashes, opens about a year after the events of the previous volume A Study in Darkness. Volume 2 was awful. It was almost entirely angsty romance with slight paranormal and steampunk colorings. Blech. I hate it when a story sets me up with expecting adventure or mystery, but turns out to be a romance in the end. This even ruins the expanded roles for Sherlock and Mycroft, and explanation for Jack the Ripper. Jack […]
Medieval Were-Bugs
I won this book through a Goodreads giveaway, and I am pretty much done entering these, because of the books that I’ve won only one has been enjoyable and every other one has just been TERRIBLE. To be fair, this book isn’t TERRIBLE, but it’s just not good. There’s some promise, but mostly I was bored out of my mind reading this and that’s damning for a book that bills itself as horror. Abomination is Gary Whitta’s first novel, and is set in the era […]
Enjoyable, if completely forgettable fantasy
Thornlost is the third book in a fantasy series by Melanie Rawn, and that cover makes it look so much more exciting then it actually is. The cover makes it look like evil knights, fierce battles, lost jewels, you know typical fantasy excitement. But in actuality the series is basically troubadours in Tudor England with magic. The series follows a group of these troubadours as they progress from basically unknown to one of the more renowned groups in the kingdom. In this kingdom the various magical species (of […]
Apparently Cathartic Fighting Gets Me Hype
After finishing the second book in the Captive Prince series, I scoot right along to dive into this one, rather than taking a break such as I had between the first and second books. And I definitely think that that was a good decision on my part, as I could basically just keep the action going and not forget any plot-points, characters, or intricacies, as there are many within these last two books. I must say that I ended up liking this trilogy a lot […]
An objectively great comic that I didn’t enjoy and don’t want to read anymore
If you know anything at all about comics, then you know Brian K Vaughan. You know him for good reason. He wrote Y: the Last Man, Ex Machina (the comic, not the movie), and also worked on tv’s LOST. Y is one of my favorite examples of a uniquely comic book-based story, as well as an example that comics can deal with adult themes while also being entertaining. Ex Machina is interesting for its political elements and themes (if not its art. LOST is one […]