There is so much in this book I don’t even know what to do with myself. I’d forgotten how FULL it is. It’s easily double the size of the other volumes up until now. Maybe even triple. And it’s clearly the lynchpin that the whole series turns on. The first and most surface thing is that Tom is ready to go to war with the cabal. He believes he has to strike now because he has access to power, and because the cabal hasn’t had […]
In Honor of Krampusnacht
Today is December 5th which makes tonight Krampusnacht and tomorrow St Nicholas Day. These holidays are mostly German and Eastern European, but I started celebrating St Nicholas with a Polish aunt about eight years ago. Some time ago I saw this book on the shelf of a favorite independent bookstore and almost bought it. Then 2 months ago I saw it again, and I bought it on a whim. I am very glad I did. Krampus is frequently a figure in horror movies and fiction, […]
500 pages of fan fiction
Ok, this is a controversial opinion to have in these parts of the Internet… but I did not like Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On but I would like to explain myself. 1. The Simon and Baz interludes were the worst parts of the, otherwise amazing, Fangirl. I skipped over half of them. 2. Despite skipping over half the Simon and Baz parts I’m 99% sure the gay thing was an invention of Cath’s fan-fic. So (spoiler?) the romance in Carry On felt like bad fan fiction. […]
The parts where they talk about the Silver Age of comics were pretty neat, too.
(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. […]