Wow, there were some seriously freaky beasties and baddies in the 5th installment of the Dresden Files. We’re used to Harry having to battle the weird and supernatural, but this stuff was really ratcheting things up a notch (or five). Harry has a job, a rather big one: find the stolen Shroud of Turin. Yeah that one. Naturally, the Vatican wants it back, they’ve traced it to Chicago and they reluctantly ask for Harry’s expertise. Then Susan appears. It’s been a long time since they’ve seen […]
Enchanting/Frustrating African Fantasy
I have a lot of thoughts about this book because I found it both enchanting and frustrating. Let’s start with the plot: We’re somewhere in Africa. The Nuru, a lighter skinned people, and the Okeke, a darker skinned people, are enemies. The Nuru are on course to exterminate the Okeke, following (what they think is) the guidance written in The Great Book. One Okeke woman is raped by a really terrible Nuru during a raping/pillaging raid. She escapes, giving birth in the desert to a baby girl whom she […]
Sex, Drugs and Music With Rocks In.
“He had the feeling, once again, that he’d missed out on something somewhere. He’d never really realized it until the last couple of days. He didn’t know what it was. He just wanted to do things. He didn’t know what they were. But he wanted to do them soon.” “There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise.” It […]
Little Halloween
Dead Man’s Song is the second book in the Pine Deep Trilogy by Jonathan Maberry and for the “bridge book” as I like the call the second book in a trilogy (I, and I alone I’M SURE ha ha) was balls to the wall excitement. It’s only about two weeks after the initial book takes place. We have the same cast of characters: Crow and Val bound together by love and also by a horrible event that occurred 30 years ago now known as the […]