So anything I said about Mr. Colfer not hitting the right emotional cues in his last book have totally been remedied in the third Fowl installment. Here I was, rolling along through this fun-loving YA series about a boy criminal mastermind and his faerie acquaintances and BOOM. First chapter Mr. Colfer shoots you right in the feels on page 10. At the risk of giving anything away, I won’t be writing heavy on this book’s plot details because you should just read it, but let’s suffice […]
Not another thing, please
I forget where I read it, only that it is not my own observation, but someone put my most frequent problem with fantasy and sci-fi best: the more made up words it contains, the less likely I am to enjoy the book. This is a fairly short book that is long on nonsense. My eyes just glazed over half the text for a lack of intelligible prose to grab on to. A continuation of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series written by Douglas Adams, […]
Teenage Human Lab Rats is the New Name of My Band
I needed some mind bleach before I dove into my next true crime book and nothing is a better palate cleanser that young adult science fiction. Colfer can usually be counted on to deliver on that front, but this book was rather humdrum. But Colfer does at least include a bad ass girl and that’s a step above most young adult fiction these days. The book takes place in the not to distant future. Tactical lawyers help uphold the corporatocracy. Our hero, Cosmo Hill, lives […]
He quotes Tenacious D in the epigraph. That should tell you everything you need to know.
Don’t get me wrong. I like Tenacious D. Their self-titled first album was practically the soundtrack to my first year of college (much to the regret of my roommate). If you called “Tribute” the greatest song in the world without irony in your voice, I wouldn’t punch you in the face. I once ate at Zanzibar in Las Vegas solely for the purpose of eating there while thinking of this song (link NSFW . . . trust me, don’t do it). My point is: hating […]