Reading Wednesday
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dhampyresaWhat did you finish reading
The three Benjamin January short stories (all by Barbara Hambly):
Libre: I liked it! It's got an early series feel to it (no mention of Rose, iirc, for exemple) and Dominique was great. Plus the resolution was way cool.
There Shall Your Heart Be Also: I think Ben puts it best when he says "Kentucky Williams owns a Bible?" but I enjoyed this a lot. Also set early series, it's got Ben and Hannibal palling around and Kentucky Williams. I like Kentucky Williams, even if she has like twenty lines in the whole series. I love the shenanigans with the Bible and the resolution.
A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven: THIS IS MY FAVOURITE OMG IT'S A DETECTIVE TEAM-UP BETWEEN ROSE AND DOMINIQUE! It starts with
What are you reading now
New Orleans Noir, anthology edited by Julie Smith: I thought I might as well read the whole book where There Shall Your Heart Be Also is collected, but I made it two stories in before I had to take a break. The introduction is very interesting and I wasn't a fan of What's the Score? because I wasn't sure what was going on. Two-story Brick Houses, on the other hand... It packs quite a punch. I could tell when I started to read it that it was ended nowhere good, but I didn't expect it to go so bad or hit so many of my DNW buttons. In retrospect, most of the DNW were obvious and I should have dropped the story, but I kept thinking, "how bad can it get?" even as it got worse and well. I won't spoil the ending, but ouch. I don't think I can be objective about this story. It's got good SPaG?
Dying Bites, by DD Barant: I needed a break after Two-story Brick Houses, something light-hearted and fun, so I picked up this book for a re-read. It's about Jace Valchek, FBI profiler, who finds herself thrown into a world where there are less than a million human beings left, with everyone else being either a vampire, a werewolf or a golem. Also, no guns. At all. (The worldbuilding for this is quite interesting.) Mostly, I remembered the main relationship being the friendship between Jace and Charlie Aleph, her new partner. He's a golem who wears pinstripped suits and IS POWERED BY A T-REX YESSSSSSSS
Hannibal's Odyssey, by William Mahaney: I read a chapter and had to renew it at the library again.
What are you reading next
Probably the other two BloodHound Files novels I've already got and likely the next ones as well (T-REX POWERED GOLEM). After that, who knows?
The three Benjamin January short stories (all by Barbara Hambly):
Libre: I liked it! It's got an early series feel to it (no mention of Rose, iirc, for exemple) and Dominique was great. Plus the resolution was way cool.
There Shall Your Heart Be Also: I think Ben puts it best when he says "Kentucky Williams owns a Bible?" but I enjoyed this a lot. Also set early series, it's got Ben and Hannibal palling around and Kentucky Williams. I like Kentucky Williams, even if she has like twenty lines in the whole series. I love the shenanigans with the Bible and the resolution.
A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven: THIS IS MY FAVOURITE OMG IT'S A DETECTIVE TEAM-UP BETWEEN ROSE AND DOMINIQUE! It starts with
Rose Janvier was the first neighbor across Rue Esplanade that morning at the sound ofand it only gets better from there and oh, Rose. (Strange that there was no Shaw, though.)
Agathe Truande’s screams: this turned out to be an extremely unfortunate circumstance for a
number of the people concerned.
What are you reading now
New Orleans Noir, anthology edited by Julie Smith: I thought I might as well read the whole book where There Shall Your Heart Be Also is collected, but I made it two stories in before I had to take a break. The introduction is very interesting and I wasn't a fan of What's the Score? because I wasn't sure what was going on. Two-story Brick Houses, on the other hand... It packs quite a punch. I could tell when I started to read it that it was ended nowhere good, but I didn't expect it to go so bad or hit so many of my DNW buttons. In retrospect, most of the DNW were obvious and I should have dropped the story, but I kept thinking, "how bad can it get?" even as it got worse and well. I won't spoil the ending, but ouch. I don't think I can be objective about this story. It's got good SPaG?
Dying Bites, by DD Barant: I needed a break after Two-story Brick Houses, something light-hearted and fun, so I picked up this book for a re-read. It's about Jace Valchek, FBI profiler, who finds herself thrown into a world where there are less than a million human beings left, with everyone else being either a vampire, a werewolf or a golem. Also, no guns. At all. (The worldbuilding for this is quite interesting.) Mostly, I remembered the main relationship being the friendship between Jace and Charlie Aleph, her new partner. He's a golem who wears pinstripped suits and IS POWERED BY A T-REX YESSSSSSSS
Hannibal's Odyssey, by William Mahaney: I read a chapter and had to renew it at the library again.
What are you reading next
Probably the other two BloodHound Files novels I've already got and likely the next ones as well (T-REX POWERED GOLEM). After that, who knows?