I’m sorry, but if I’m ever going to reach my double Cannonball, I’m going to have to cut corners somewhere: Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound. His neighbours and customers think that this handsome, tattooed Irish dude is about twenty-one years old, when in actuality, he’s twenty-one centuries old. Not to mention: he draws his power from the earth, possesses a sharp wit, and wields […]
Rainbow Rowell is growing up
“You don’t know what it really means to crawl into someone else’s life and stay there. You can’t see all the ways you’re going to get tangled, how you’re going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten–in fifteen. When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems.” (201) Georgie McCool is in her mid-thirties, married […]
Harry the Wizard is back, with a bad migraine and Winter in his soul
Dresden is not only back from the dead—having spent an entire novel as a ghost!—but he is back with more guilty angst over endangering his friends and loved ones than ever before. The Winter faerie queen Mab still has her claws in Harry, and forces him to work with his worst enemy Nicodemus to pay off her debt to the scary dude. The job entails ripping off a certain Greek god of the underworld, no small task even for Harry. And, of course, that means […]
The Bestiary: A Smoothly Entertaining Read
Reading anything by Nicholas Christopher is like a smooth gliding ride. His stories flow, the prose is smooth, the tale unwinds, you don’t want to put it down and then it’s over… So pleasant, like a purring powerful car on a smooth road up the coast on a nice warm evening. Not a lot may happen on the ride, but it was very pleasant while it lasted. Nicholas Christopher’s first book was “A Trip to the Stars” – amazing and I need to re-read and […]