I finally read the first of the Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood novels, Dead Until Dark.  They really ought to put numbers on the covers; it took me a while to figure out which one came first ( Read more... )

I just finished reading John M. Ford's The Last Hot Time.  It's an Elfland-returns novel, that I believe is seriously riffing off of the Borderland series in its own way--a sort of mirror-image, and much darker.  It's fascinating...and it doesn't quite work.

I hate to say that about a Ford book, because I adore his Growing Up Weightless and How ( Read more... )

...Finished, anyway.  Mouse Guard: Fall 1152, by David Petersen  is a graphic novel that's got a great concept going, but I couldn't really get into the world; the mice as drawn seem to have no expressions, and no one seems to have a sense of humor, either.  I would have loved to know more about the world the characters inhabit; details were ( Read more... )

As a tie-in novel, Heat Wave (the Castle spin-off) is surprisingly good, with strong characterizations and a nice complicated mystery. There’s plenty of wit and twists, and while it’s short enough to make the cover price a bit outrageous, it’s fun and a very decent read ( Read more... )

I don't think this book ever even went into paperback. Greensleeves, by Eloise Jarvis McGraw, and my copy is older than I am. It's a strange book to me; parts of it are very much of the time, and parts are not, and from what little I've seen the author's other books aren't very similar ( Read more... )

I just finished re-reading N. Lee Wood's Looking for the Mahdi, which is a unique and fascinating near-future novel--now slightly out of date politically, as it was published in 1996, but that doesn't matter. It's complex, uncomfortable, and a great read, and while I do not recommend the author's Faraday's Orphans (ew ew EW) this one is a keeper ( Read more... )

Walkabout Woman by Michaela Roessner (not Michael, Amazon.com is wrong), though actually I just finished it. A very interesting pre-apocalyptic novel, though I'm not at all sure it's anywhere near accurate. I don't enjoy it as much as Vanishing Point, which is really unique, and I recommend the latter if you can find a copy, but still--a great