I got a copy of this book since it’s the Jan selection for DearAuthor book club. Blurb: For two thousand years, Lilith wrought vengeance upon the evil and the damned, gathering souls for her father’s armies Below and proving her fealty to her Underworld liege. Bound by a bargain with the devil and forbidden to [...]
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
This is the first book in the Gardella Vampire Chronicles. I bought it since the cover looks cool and the story sounded intriguing and I felt like reading a paranormal romance novel. Blurb: In every generation, a Gardella is called to accept the family legacy of vampire slaying, and this time, Victoria Gardella Grantworth is [...]
Several of the reviewers on Amazon have said that this book doesn’t represent Turow’s best work. While it is shorter than most of his other novels, I found the quality of Limitations to be up to his usual high standard. Of course, there are some compromises to be made when you have fewer than 200 [...]
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
After struggling for months to finish The Fall of Hyperion (see the previous entry), I wanted something that I knew was going to be fun and go quickly. Douglas Preston is a past master of this sort of book, whether he’s writing by himself or with colleague Lincoln Child, and sure enough, Tyrannosaur Canyon didn’t [...]
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
I really don’t know what to say about this book. Dan Simmons is such a gifted writer, with such a sweeping imagination, that it seems almost a crime to complain about the novel. At the same time, I have never read anything so well done and interesting that so completely failed to hold my attention. [...]