Reading roundup, including Fallow and Forbidden Parabatai Het

[hamsterwoman]

58. Jonathan Kellerman, The Murderer's Daughter -- a non-Alex Delaware novel, although Delaware does make a brief appearance, and I think I remember Grace mentioned in a recent Delaware book? I mean, all of Kellerman's realistic crime books take place in the same universe, so that's nothing new, but it does drive home how much more I enjoy reading

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[hamsterwoman]

It definitely reads as an action flick, which I'm fine with, although this is a genre that works much better for me in movie form than book form, because watching things go BOOM is fun, but reading about what exactly is making it go that particular kind of BOOM I can only take so much of :p -- but I also realize I'm not the target audience, and even action flicks can get so actiony and repetitive that I tune out (e.g. Transformers or something).

I was pleasantly surprised by the diversity. Is it the most nuanced treatment of those characters I've ever read? Most definitely not. Does it need to be in an action flick book? Well, it's par for the course with the level of nuance in everything else, so probably not...

And good to hear that Correia is a nice guy in person. I'd read his account of his first WorldCon as a nominee, and he sounded like a decent guy in that. I'm a bit put off by the Gary-Stu-ness of the character, in terms of how it reflects on the author, but at the same time, it would be hypocritical of me to judge too harshly for that :P