• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. I happen to be both keen on Austen and on zombie stories so this was for me, delightful. I laughed a lot and thoroughly recommend it to anyone else who thinks they might get a kick out of it. I came in expecting zombies to be introduced during the story but it's set 55 years ( Read more... )

• The Sundered (03) Lady of Mercy by Michelle Sagara West. Early writing, reading it for completeness.
• The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer. Rereading because I love Prudence.
• Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett. Rereading because I love all the jokes about socks.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 Issue 19 by Drew Goddard. Winds up the Fray storyline ( Read more... )

• Spike and Co. by Graham McCann. This is a biography of Associated London Scripts, a cosy professional nest of British humour in the 1950's but my heart goes to Spike Milligan (again) for his awful and amazing life. Utterly worthwhile.
• So hard to say by Alex Sanchez. Young maybe-gay boy coming of age story, gentle and well developed.
• The Wave Runners ( Read more... )

Supernatural: Rising Son #1 by Peter Johnson. Artwork has definitely picked up, as has the story - now desperately want to know if this counts as canon for the TV show.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8, Issue 13 Wolves at the Gate [02] by Drew Goddard. Love Xander interacting with Dracula, sense of humour firmly intact.

The League of ( Read more... )

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8, Issue 11 and 12 by Joss Whedon. New bad guys, Buffy's love life in chaos, dating Xander style and vampires who melt into fog. Still happy.

Carpe Diem by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. Space Opera. Light hearted and dramatic with action, adventure and angst all wrapped up in some of the most enjoyable characters I've ( Read more... )

Cobra Trap by Peter O’Donnell. A series of short stories covering different times in the life of Modesty Blaise for which I have much, much love.

Eragon by Christopher Paolini. Atrocious. Unreadable, desperately in need of a good editor. I can forgive a lot and I know the author is very young but something like this making it into print just hurts ( Read more... )

Serenity: Those Left Behind by Joss Whedon. Backstory. What's not to love.

Sabre-tooth by Peter O'Donnell. The second Modesty Blaise book and larger than life; arch villains, death defying feats, Willie Garvin’s sense of humour.

Pieces of Modesty by Peter O'Donnell. Short stories, completely over the top and delightfully so. 

Belladonna (Ephemera, Book 2) by Anne Bishop. Not as interesting as I wanted it to be, has a great premise but over explains and makes it more technical than is warrented. I'm reminded of Anne Rice - starts well, finishes in excessive detail.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer S8 (04) & (05) by Joss Whedon. Still very happy, like the visual style, like the ' ( Read more... )

The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer. Gervase Frant, 7th Earl of St Erth returns to his family from the army to find his younger half brother expecting to inherit the title when Gervase dies conveniently in the wars. Alas for Martin, Gervase is alive and well but his increasingly alarming ‘accidents’ may put an end to all that.

The Foundling by ( Read more... )

The Pinhoe Egg by Diana Wynne Jones is the kind of fantasy I've grown to expect. Interesting, fun and enjoyable. Cat, a nine-lifed enchanter battles a horse, gets a mysterious egg and meets the locals from the village who turn out to have some pretty weird interests.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer S8 (comic) by Joss Whedon et al. This is looking ( Read more... )