While blending his various universes is sort of bread and butter for Simon Green, this one got a little TOO Nightsidey. It was like a bad cross-over episode between two shows that shouldn’t have. It was like A.W.E.S.O.M.E.-O. pooping out his fourty-billionth Adam Sandler premise. Or me writing reviews for Book 8 of a 12 book series.
AVENGULATORS! Mount Up!
There was gunfights and butchery and Frankenstein stuff, and then a werecoyote fought a Snake-Injun, and they Gatling Gunned some cowboys and pirates jumped out of hot-airballoons and AND AND TWO STEAMPUNK SCIENTISTS GOT INTO A LIGHTNING FIGHT. And that wasn’t even the angels and gods stuff. With all the backstory dropped in Six-Gun Tarot, Belcher has room to go batshit crazy with his second book, and everyone gets their own boss fight.
Another Memoir About a Nutty Family
Gwendolyn Knapp is only in her thirties, but her colorful family and personal relationships have already provided enough fodder for a memoir. After While is the story of Gwendolyn, her sister Molly, her mother Margie, and her stepfather John. Of course, there is a host of other family members and the occasional love interest that pepper her life with stress and shenanigans. Knapp grew up in Florida where she lived with her packrat mother and overachieving goth sister, as well as her mother’s extended family. […]
Doomed to Repeat It
There was nothing of any nutritive value in this utter rehash of events we already know. No insight into anything. Nope. In fact, Goodkind uses this as some sort of screed announcing that he has discovered eBooks and that he no longer need be bound by a publisher! And that eBooks are the future. And that three years later, this is totally available as a hardcover book. You know nothing, Ter Go.