(I previously reviewed this book for CBR4. My review can be found HERE.) This one didn’t work for me as well this time around, but it’s still pretty great. Not every book in a series is going to be five stars. It’s not even that I can necessarily point to anything in particular as a reason for my reluctance to give out that five stars like I did the first time I read it, it’s just it didn’t seem as good as the previous four volumes. […]
Definite better at horror than romance
I’ve really liked most of what I’ve read by Richard Matheson (Hell House, I Am Legend, Stir of Echoes, etc) but two of his books have fallen pretty flat for me, and they’re both romances: What Dreams May Come, and now, Somewhere in Time. I wouldn’t call either book bad; they’re just not as good as I’d hoped, based of his others. “I looked at all the people, feeling sorry for them. They were still subordinate to clock and calendar. Absolved of that, I stood becalmed.” 36 year old […]
You know, I speak whale.
“For by art is created that great Leviathan called a Commonwealth, or people . . . which is but an artificial man; though of greater stature and strength than any man might be.” This is the part of The Unwritten where everything crystallizes, and you go ohhhhh, that’s what’s going on! And the reveal happens in such a neat and organic way. After the events of Dead Man’s Knock, Tommy knows he has to find the source of his fathers (and his) mysterious power so […]
Cross. Jahan Cross.
You know a song is great when it can be covered in any style. Think of how many people have covered Dylan and The Beatles. You also know that a fictional universe is great when you can tell any kind of story within it. While I am not a huge fan of the Star Wars movies, I do appreciate the universe. It is so well known that it can be a backdrop for any story in any medium. Star Wars: Edge of the Empire is […]
Not everything can be “Attachments”
This is going to be one of those reviews where even giving it four stars feels like I may as well be panning it, because I didn’t instantly want to elope forever with Carry On unlike, it seems, freaking everyone else. And because everyone has already expounded at length as to why they love it, I can’t really add anything new to that end. So here we are — a four-star review full of gripes. Mea culpa. But really, this book was really good! And […]
In which we get some answers.
The Unwritten continues with a volume that makes the weird and fictional even more indistinguishable from reality. Several things are happening all at once here. Tom, Lizzie and Savoy have reappeared in London after their jaunt in “Jud Suss”, only three months have gone by in the real world for their mere hours spent in “Jud Suss”. Tom is presumed dead in the fire at Donostia prison, and the world is abuzz with the imminent publication of the fourteenth and final Tommy Taylor novel, which […]