I should have thought of posting a review of this book here before, since I've already written a couple on other sites before ( Read more... )

I wasn't going to post this, since it comes from a webcomic, ratfher than a published book, but one of the moderators encouraged me since she found it amusing. If it's any consolation, the author refers to it as a graphic novel, which implies some pretensions of quality ( Read more... )

In some varieties of shonen manga, there is a frequently recurring theme that drives me up the wall ( Read more... )

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro writes the Saint-Germain Chronicles which are lovely richly detailed historical fiction with a vampire as the lead character. I love them I really do even if sometimes there are pages of nothing but info dumping - makes your skimming technique improve - that really should have been cut.

But I just finished Writ in Blood and I ( Read more... )

Dear Ms. Black.

So.

Fairies in your books are enable to lie. They physically cannot say things that are not true. As such, a fairy would not even be able to say the following things:

I’m lying.

I can lie.

I am the fairy that can lie.

This is me lying.

Your loophole doesn’t follow your own logic.

Very disappointed,

Jo.

And sorry for the heterosexuality in the beginning for those who disliked it.I hate that people think they need to apologize for het. That makes no more sense than having to apologize for slash. The writer is allowed to include both, either or neither. Or yuri. And they should damn well not be ashamed for it. Nor should you feel you need to ( Read more... )

Does anyone else hate it when they pick up a horror book and find huge chunks of spirituality stuck in the middle? I mean, I've nothing against spirituality in itself, but I feel slightly cheated when I buy a book that from the blurb on the back is all about bad people doing creepily bad things and then find myself in the middle of a lecture on how ( Read more... )

Since the book covers some philisophical issues, I'll accept that this might be deliberate, but still wish to rant about a character's failure of logic.

( Dear Omaha Nebraska Brown . . . )

Dear various authors ( Read more... )

( Cut for MASSIVE spoilers to Fool Moon, second of the Dresden Files )