2.5 stars Ah, the joys of reviewing something you read in about an hour about two weeks ago and that didn’t make that much of an impact. I’m sorry, but I have to once again resort to the lazy/forgetful reviewer’s trick of using the Goodreads summary: One’s a natural-born killer – a remorseless hunter gleefully prowling the night for victims to quench an unnatural blood lust. The other’s a vampire. His centuries of existence have left him world weary and detached, until one day his […]
Pretty good. Not great.
This is “review” #6, and I still don’t know how to do this properly. I’m not really interested in giving a synopsis, but I guess there aren’t any rules, so once again, this is just kinda what I thought about this. On Neil Gaiman’s amazon bio, he says, “I make things up and write them down.” Which is awesome. Obviously (?) he’s being a least a little disingenuous, but with this book it doesn’t seem too far off. I believe this was his first novel, […]
I Wasn’t Kidding About Titles
I think I was pretty late to the Brandon Sanderson party. The first book I read by him was Steelheart and I’m pretty sure that came out last year. Like I said before, I only just got back into reading books in the last couple years, so I missed a lot of good stuff. So anyway I liked Steelheart, I had read the first 3 or 4 Wheel of Time books, and I knew Sandy was the one who took over the end of that […]
River Gods and Scooby Gangs
Now that’s more like it. This fourth installment of the Peter Grant series set in London strikes a better balance between an overarching series plot, the search for a rogue wizard known only as The Faceless Man, and the more immediate story that begins with a car crash and soon involves a growing pile of bodies, a mysterious book, and a large housing project designed by a crazy and possible magic-practicing architect. Amidst this all, Peter and Lesley continue to be trained in magic by […]