Fourth in the series of the White Trash Zombie books. These are hilarious. I listened to this one on Audible. Our heroine – Angel Crawford – is indeed a white trash zombie. Backstory – 3 books back, she was a loser white trash drug addict, got picked up by the wrong guy in a bar, ended up in a (what should have been fatal) car crash and somehow survived with no injuries whatsoever. Took her a while to figure out that someone […]
California Bones – Not your usual heist novel
California Bones – Urban Fantasy – I bought this after I met the author at the San Diego Comic Con panel on Urban Fantasy. I had been thinking of reading it for a couple of weeks, and actually meeting the author and getting his autograph pushed me to get a “hardcopy” rather than a digital version. So this is basically a heist novel, albeit a very unusual one. Takes place in an alternate version of California. In this California, magic is carried in […]
The Jupiter War – hard to care
The Jupiter War is the Third part and the conclusion of “The Owner Trilogy” Series by Neal Asher. I normally adore Neal Asher’s writing – his Ian Cormac Series, the Skinner series, anything with Sniper the War Drone – let me throw my money at him. But I had a hard time with this series. The meta plot: some time in the future- Earth is over populated, the planet’s resources are taxed and a large majority of the people are “zero assets” meaning that […]
Harry Dresden Hits it out of the Park Again
Nothing better than a Harry Dresden novel narrated by Jim Marsters. Well, there are better things, but as audio books go, this is the top end. Love that man’s voice. And Dresden Files stories – well – Jim Butcher just keeps hitting them out of the park. Ok so first things first : if you have never read a Harry Dresden book before, well this is probably not where you want to start. There are like…15 of them. Seriously …go get Storm Front. That’s the […]