September Book List
Sept 1st - Kevin Anderson (ed) - Blood Lite: One of these days I'm going to pick up a multiple author urban fantasy anthology and like more than 1/2 of them at best. One day. Well, Mean Streets I guess. But that was 4 novellas more than short stories...
Sept 2nd - Robert Parker - Brimstone: A contiuation to Parker's western series started in Appaloosa, which I saw the movie version of. Not a bad western, but it kind of felt like a Spenser novel. Its the only one in the series I've read so far, so I don't know if the others also lack a distinctive voice...
Sept 3rd - Andrew Vachss - Blue Belle: 3rd book in Vachss' Burke series. With Burke being hired by a group of pimps to put an end to a Ghost Van thats preying on street girls...
Sept 4th - Vachss - Down in the Zero: 7th Burke book. Burke takes a trip out to a high-income community to pay back a favor from his mercenary days. Something may be causing the local teens to commit suicide and Burke's been asked to look into it while watching out for the teen-age son of a former lover...
C.J. Burke - Below Zero: Something about the basic set-up here, which involves a dying mobster trying to make things up to his estranged environmentalist son by murdering people with a high carbon footprint, just annoyed me. I ended up tossing the book into the trade box after only a half-dozen chapters...
Sept 5th - Ysabeau Wilce - Flora Segunda: After all that murder and violence this YA book was a welcome change. A fantasy series featuring a teen girl in a Gothic/Victorian kind of setting. Flora made for a very likeable character. Prone to mistakes, but constantly striving to solve her problems anyway...
Sept 6th - Wilce - Flora's Dare: The second book in the series, with Flora attempting to free an ancient spirit imprisoned beneath her city before it tears everything apart. Plus someone gets possessed by wicked boots. And Family Secrets!
Patricia Briggs - Bone Crossed: I'm glad to see Briggs devotes more to Mercy's recovery from her assault. While she struggles to survive the anger of the local vampire Queen...
Sept 8th - Joe Abercrombie - Best Served Cold: For Abercrombie this was a surprisingly upbeat book. I mean sure its about a mercenary captain who recruits a band of bastards to help her gain a murderous revenge on the people who betrayed and attempted to kill her. But unlike theLast Argument of Kings I didn't want to eat a bullet at the end. Or feed someone else a bullet. So, yeah. Close to a happy ending...
Sept 9th - Vachss - Footsteps of the Hawk: 8th Burke novel, with our "hero" caught between the plans of a pair of rogue cops...
Sept 11th - Harry Harrison - Make Room! Make Room!: The novel Soylent Green was based on. Though instead of cannibalism, its more a cop procedural in a cyberpunk setting. Just without the advanced technology...
Sept 12th - Richard Morgan - The Steel Remains: Reread the first book in Morgan's dark fantasy series. Three former comrades get drawn back together by a race of..well lets call them Elves..looking to lead the major human kingdoms into war again...
Sept 15th - Terry Pratchett - Nation: Does. Not. Happen.
Sept 17th - Kat Richardson - Underground: P.I. and medium Harper Blaine ends one relationship and starts another, all while dealing with the local vampire boss who wants to recruit her and a mythical Native American monster preying on the homeless...
Sept 20th - Pratchett - Monstrous Regiment: I know I'm not alone in totally shipping Polly and Maladictia. Am I right? I'm totally right...
Sept 21st - Neal Asher - The Voyage of the Sable Keech: Adventures on the high seas of an alien world. With crazed cyborg/revenants, vengeful sea monsters and warring splintered personalities of an ancient hornet Hive mind...
Sept 23rd - Pratchett - Night Watch: Its good to return to old friends...
Sept 25th - Sherwood Smith - Treason's Shore: The conclusion to Smith's Inda series. Even as it builds to its final confrontation this is a slow building book. And the big final confrontation between the main hero and villain feels like a bit of an anti-climax. Nothing that makes the book less than enjoyable, but it seems to lack the energy of the previous books...
Sept 27th - Raymond Feist - Rides a Dread Legion: The start of the next chapter in Feist's Midkemia series. Pug and the Conclave of Shadows face a new threat from both a lost group of violent, expansionist elves and the threat of an invasion by a demonic horde...
Sept 28th - Steve Hamilton - A Cold Day in Paradise: First book in Hamilton's Alex McKnight/Upper Pennisula series. A dead bookie shakes up McKnight's mostly comfortable world and drags up old memories and mistakes from when he was on the Detroit P.D...
Hamilton - Winter of the Wolf Moon: 2nd McKnight book. Alex lets his friend Vinnie convince him to play goalie in an over-40 hockey game. Which somehow ends up with McKnight trying to find an Ojibwa woman seemingly snatched from one of his rental cabins...
Sept 29th - Erik Flint (ed) - Grantville Gazette & Grantville Gazette II: Just wanted to reread the Ring of Fire anthologies again...
Sept 30th - Flint (ed) - Ring of Fire
Hamilton - Hunting Wind: In the 3rd book in the series, Alex McKnight lets himself be dragged along by his pitcher from his long-ago days as a minor league catcher. His old friend needs help tracking down the girl he knew briefly close to thirty years earlier...
Total Books: 25
Sept 2nd - Robert Parker - Brimstone: A contiuation to Parker's western series started in Appaloosa, which I saw the movie version of. Not a bad western, but it kind of felt like a Spenser novel. Its the only one in the series I've read so far, so I don't know if the others also lack a distinctive voice...
Sept 3rd - Andrew Vachss - Blue Belle: 3rd book in Vachss' Burke series. With Burke being hired by a group of pimps to put an end to a Ghost Van thats preying on street girls...
Sept 4th - Vachss - Down in the Zero: 7th Burke book. Burke takes a trip out to a high-income community to pay back a favor from his mercenary days. Something may be causing the local teens to commit suicide and Burke's been asked to look into it while watching out for the teen-age son of a former lover...
C.J. Burke - Below Zero: Something about the basic set-up here, which involves a dying mobster trying to make things up to his estranged environmentalist son by murdering people with a high carbon footprint, just annoyed me. I ended up tossing the book into the trade box after only a half-dozen chapters...
Sept 5th - Ysabeau Wilce - Flora Segunda: After all that murder and violence this YA book was a welcome change. A fantasy series featuring a teen girl in a Gothic/Victorian kind of setting. Flora made for a very likeable character. Prone to mistakes, but constantly striving to solve her problems anyway...
Sept 6th - Wilce - Flora's Dare: The second book in the series, with Flora attempting to free an ancient spirit imprisoned beneath her city before it tears everything apart. Plus someone gets possessed by wicked boots. And Family Secrets!
Patricia Briggs - Bone Crossed: I'm glad to see Briggs devotes more to Mercy's recovery from her assault. While she struggles to survive the anger of the local vampire Queen...
Sept 8th - Joe Abercrombie - Best Served Cold: For Abercrombie this was a surprisingly upbeat book. I mean sure its about a mercenary captain who recruits a band of bastards to help her gain a murderous revenge on the people who betrayed and attempted to kill her. But unlike theLast Argument of Kings I didn't want to eat a bullet at the end. Or feed someone else a bullet. So, yeah. Close to a happy ending...
Sept 9th - Vachss - Footsteps of the Hawk: 8th Burke novel, with our "hero" caught between the plans of a pair of rogue cops...
Sept 11th - Harry Harrison - Make Room! Make Room!: The novel Soylent Green was based on. Though instead of cannibalism, its more a cop procedural in a cyberpunk setting. Just without the advanced technology...
Sept 12th - Richard Morgan - The Steel Remains: Reread the first book in Morgan's dark fantasy series. Three former comrades get drawn back together by a race of..well lets call them Elves..looking to lead the major human kingdoms into war again...
Sept 15th - Terry Pratchett - Nation: Does. Not. Happen.
Sept 17th - Kat Richardson - Underground: P.I. and medium Harper Blaine ends one relationship and starts another, all while dealing with the local vampire boss who wants to recruit her and a mythical Native American monster preying on the homeless...
Sept 20th - Pratchett - Monstrous Regiment: I know I'm not alone in totally shipping Polly and Maladictia. Am I right? I'm totally right...
Sept 21st - Neal Asher - The Voyage of the Sable Keech: Adventures on the high seas of an alien world. With crazed cyborg/revenants, vengeful sea monsters and warring splintered personalities of an ancient hornet Hive mind...
Sept 23rd - Pratchett - Night Watch: Its good to return to old friends...
Sept 25th - Sherwood Smith - Treason's Shore: The conclusion to Smith's Inda series. Even as it builds to its final confrontation this is a slow building book. And the big final confrontation between the main hero and villain feels like a bit of an anti-climax. Nothing that makes the book less than enjoyable, but it seems to lack the energy of the previous books...
Sept 27th - Raymond Feist - Rides a Dread Legion: The start of the next chapter in Feist's Midkemia series. Pug and the Conclave of Shadows face a new threat from both a lost group of violent, expansionist elves and the threat of an invasion by a demonic horde...
Sept 28th - Steve Hamilton - A Cold Day in Paradise: First book in Hamilton's Alex McKnight/Upper Pennisula series. A dead bookie shakes up McKnight's mostly comfortable world and drags up old memories and mistakes from when he was on the Detroit P.D...
Hamilton - Winter of the Wolf Moon: 2nd McKnight book. Alex lets his friend Vinnie convince him to play goalie in an over-40 hockey game. Which somehow ends up with McKnight trying to find an Ojibwa woman seemingly snatched from one of his rental cabins...
Sept 29th - Erik Flint (ed) - Grantville Gazette & Grantville Gazette II: Just wanted to reread the Ring of Fire anthologies again...
Sept 30th - Flint (ed) - Ring of Fire
Hamilton - Hunting Wind: In the 3rd book in the series, Alex McKnight lets himself be dragged along by his pitcher from his long-ago days as a minor league catcher. His old friend needs help tracking down the girl he knew briefly close to thirty years earlier...
Total Books: 25