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hawkwing_lbBook 168, Fiction 158:
158. Not Flesh Nor Feathers, Cherie Priest.
The third Eden Moore book. This one has floods and zombies. Eerie, atmospheric, and damp are all words that apply. It's pretty cool. I liked it a lot.
Blowing up tunnels with fireworks to stop zombies coming through? I mean, come on, how much more cool can you get?
And now, books I have stopped reading half-way through:
Ally, Karen Traviss.
There is only so much banging on the same damn drum a body can take.
Heart of Stone, C.E. Murphy.
The first book in a new series, and I am sorely disappointed. Sorely. I had expectations of so much more. But there is no tension here, no narrative drive: there is, so far, no hint of any real cost for the heroine, and we all know that no matter how many stupid risks said heroine takes, she's going to make it to the end in one piece.
I am So. Damned. Fed. Up. with the heroine who takes stupid risks and doesn't pay an appropriate price. And aside from that, characters who take stupid risks and do good for the sake of doing it just because they're made that way stopped being interesting for me a long time ago.
The gargoyle? Is flat. The cop? Is boring, frankly, as is the heroine. And halfway in I just can't see why I should be bothered to care.
I don't doubt it'll find its audience, but this really isn't my type of book.
158. Not Flesh Nor Feathers, Cherie Priest.
The third Eden Moore book. This one has floods and zombies. Eerie, atmospheric, and damp are all words that apply. It's pretty cool. I liked it a lot.
Blowing up tunnels with fireworks to stop zombies coming through? I mean, come on, how much more cool can you get?
And now, books I have stopped reading half-way through:
Ally, Karen Traviss.
There is only so much banging on the same damn drum a body can take.
Heart of Stone, C.E. Murphy.
The first book in a new series, and I am sorely disappointed. Sorely. I had expectations of so much more. But there is no tension here, no narrative drive: there is, so far, no hint of any real cost for the heroine, and we all know that no matter how many stupid risks said heroine takes, she's going to make it to the end in one piece.
I am So. Damned. Fed. Up. with the heroine who takes stupid risks and doesn't pay an appropriate price. And aside from that, characters who take stupid risks and do good for the sake of doing it just because they're made that way stopped being interesting for me a long time ago.
The gargoyle? Is flat. The cop? Is boring, frankly, as is the heroine. And halfway in I just can't see why I should be bothered to care.
I don't doubt it'll find its audience, but this really isn't my type of book.
