Yes this is like Tolkien! a bit….in a graphic novel…with perhaps a bit more humor but also with depth and ancient evil and dragons and plot twists and cow racing! This was another recommendation from iO9. Graphic Novel. HUGE fat thing at 1300 pages -it’s the compilation of ALL the Bone comics which were apparently released over 10 years – 1994-2004. An epic fantasy saga – very funny, clever, good story telling. To summarize: “After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone […]
Here She Goes Again
Charlaine Harris recently wrapped up her Southern Vampire Mystery series, more famously known as “The Sookie Stackhouse” novels. In my opinion she should have done so much sooner but one can look to previous CBR reviews I’ve posted to get into that. I heard Harris started a new series in a new location and though Sookie’s world became stale and tiring, that isn’t to say Harris is incapable of having a new one that is light and fun and full of mystery. Enter Midnight Crossroad, […]
Time for some swashbuckling fantasy!
Forty-first book reviewed as part of the 130 Challenge. It’s been quite a while since I’ve read fantasy and it was nice to go back to it. Nine Princes in Amber is more of a hack and slash style of Fantasy, but it was an interesting read nonetheless. The first half builds the story in terms of shrewd discoveries made by the protagonist Corwin, himself one of the nine living princes of Amber, a fantastical city which is supposed to be on the ‘real’ earth […]
American Gods By Neil Gaiman
I first read American Gods about 5 years ago. I loved it–I loved the characters, the little “Coming to America” interludes, how strange and sad the story was, everything. I loved how Neil Gaiman took one of the most stoic characters I’ve ever read — our man Shadow — who should have been boring in his utter acceptance of everything around him, but instead acting as a sounding board for the reader. Shadow absorbed all the insanity around him, took the view of “well, this is my job”, and moved on. […]