Live by Night is a crime saga focused on the characters, portraying them as more than one dimensional thugs. Most of them do what they do for a reason. Taking place in 1927, 8 years after the Boston Police strike, Live By Night shifts focus from Danny Coughlin to his youngest brother, Joe. Now 20 and an accomplished small time criminal, Joe falls for the wrong woman and it changes the trajectory of his life. Along the way he rubs elbows with real and fictional […]
If you think you’ve been here before, you have.
First off, the rating. The Last Colony is a solid 4.5. I found the book delightful. Scalzi unpacked a little bit more of his universe, and ends the book with a punch, but not in a way that I felt suckered into continuing the series. It was just a final crescendo to a great adventure, and I was left wanting more. Which leads to my second point: Zoe’s Tale was fairly pointless. It’s a retelling of The Last Colony. Literally. It’s the exact same story, […]
Colder Than a Witch’s Best Not To Think of That Sort of Thing, Really
I sort of read the Discworld novels on whim, coasting through what really feels like five or six interwoven quilt blocks of a series. The Tiffany Aching stories are the young adult Discworlds, and as such are my least favorite tales. That’s not to say they aren’t good — it’s like picking the Kids in the Hall member I like the least (Kevin). I still dig the hell out of them — especially the Nac Mac Feegles — but of all the stories, these are […]
Not With a Bang, But A Viral Video of Keyboard Cat
Time has shown I loves me some Wendig. But technothriller erode over time. Come five, ten, fifteen years, this will all be laughable as we revisit the series on the NetGoogz stream beaming directly into our visual cortex from the implants. Despite the language, this X-Men meets Hackers mashup feels like a young adult book at times, especially with the broad stroke character interactions and terribly hackneyed love interest. Wendig can and has done better.