Reviews of a lot of movies and books!
I've been meaning to write about the books and movies I've come across lately, some for their own sakes, some because it seems fair to toss a bit more info out there into the world. Inspired just now by having just watched "Fast Five", and mentally comparing it to "X-Men: First Class". Upshot: Fast Five was a good movie, while X-Men: First Class
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"Even `Fast Five' had something at the end."
"Yeah, but 'Fast Five' didn't kill the black guy first."
Wanted to like the Connolly books but failed. Had a real hard time connecting to any character enough to care about their inevitable gruesome departure. I guess if I wanted to think of it from the Lovecraftian skew it makes more sense, but on its own merit it wasn't gripping enough.
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I didn't really view any of the non-main-two characters as people to care about, so that wasn't a problem for me... I viewed them all more as "elaborations on a tragedy" and I enjoyed that sort of _World War Z_-esque "one word for this: hosed" atmosphere.
I did sort of feel like the main characters were interesting themselves. It's a flip of the spunky heroine trope!
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On the topic of the Twenty Palaces books from Harry Connolly: basically he wrote the first book that explains the meeting of Ray and Annalise, Ray's creation of his ghost knife, and Ray's induction into the 20 Palaces Society as a Wooden Man, etc. But it was his first novel and it didn't get published. I understand that there's at least a tentative plan to seriously rework that novel and eventually publish it as a prequel.
I like the patchy backstory in Child of Fire. I think it's neat without over-explaining anything.
Circle of Enemies, the next book in the series, is out soon. I'm a big proponent of these books.
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