Richard quits to go be a hobbit, but a weird Sister of the Dark kidnaps him with a MacGuffin spell and forces him into Atlas Shrugged. No, seriously. Goodkind isn’t even fucking trying to be subtle. I’m surprised someone wasn’t trying to build a goddamn train from Altur’Rang to Aydindril. CBR #30 – Vacation, All I Ever Wanted, Vacation, Time To Get Away
You Tell Him I’m Coming, And Hell’s Coming With Me, You Hear?
The ninth Nightside book follows the same general formula, only here Taylor faces down The Walking Man, an unstoppable gunslinger who represents the Wrath of God coming to wipe out the new Authorities in The Nightside. What gives it that extra goose is the resolutions, and what the implications are for the rest of the series. Sadly, it has a lack of Onyx/Biohazard and Denis Leary. https://sixdemonprisco.wordpress.com/2015/03/21/cbr-29-you-tell-him-im-coming-and-hells-coming-with-me-you-hear/
Careful What You Wish For
In my last review of book 4 in this series I suggested that it was impossible for all the major characters to hold up so long, often in such wildly impossible scenarios and that surely at least one of them should have died. Well…I guess I should play the lottery or something because it appears that if I ask for something, I get it. In this book, no major character was safe any longer; the stakes were much higher and it was clear that all […]
Yelling F–k The Police Loses Some of Its Swagger If You’re Wearing a Monocle and Top Hat
Marshall Karp, my least favorite Patterfamilias Collaborator, brings us another dull adventure in the life of NYPD Red, the elite task force of the NYPD in place solely to cater to the superwealthy and their crimes. That crunching sound is my molars grinding to dust from class-dichotomy rage. As narrated by the cop equivalent of Duckie from Pretty in Pink — only just the douchebag pining qualities. CBR #28 – Yelling Fuck The Police Loses Some Of Its Swagger If You’re Wearing a Monocle and […]
