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hawkwing_lb ([personal profile] hawkwing_lb) wrote2012-09-13 11:28 pm

Books 2012: have you seen my TBR pile?

Books 2012: 166-167


166. Jack Campbell, The Lost Stars: Tarnished Knight. Ace, 2012. ARC courtesy of Tor.com.

Review will appear at Tor.com when the book is out. It is like his other books. I enjoyed it. Space opera go boom.


167. Adam Christopher, Seven Wonders. Angry Robot, 2012.

Superhero story. Must review for Strange Horizons. The more I think about it, the less I like it. It is glittering and shallow.

[identity profile] puddleshark.livejournal.com 2012-09-14 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
'It is glittering and shallow...' A most elegant put-down, that.

May I borrow it occasionally to mutter to myself, under my breath, when I am trying to understand what it is that I dislike about a perfectly well-written fantasy?



[identity profile] hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com 2012-09-14 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
All that glisters is not gold
often have you heard that told -


Make yourself free of it. :)

(Mostly the problem is it is technically perfectly competent, even good, but has no coherence of theme beyond BOOM BOOM GO BOOM MOAAAAAAAR.)