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50 Books Challenge - Update
Nov. 21st, 2007 01:51 pm40. Summer Knight, Jim Butcher
41. Death Masks, Jim Butcher
Definitely The Dresden Files are starting to grow on me. Also, I might kind of have a crush on Michael. A little one. I mean, I don't usually go for the really religious types, but. Also, Trotskyist Knight of the Cross? I kind of love it. Maybe even love the Knights a little better than Dresden.
Also, sex with a tied-up not-yet-vampire? Kinda hot. Not that vampires are my thing, oh no.
42. Blood and Chrysanthemums, Nancy Baker
I think this is a follow-up to The Night Inside, which I hadn't read - but maybe that's a good thing, as she refers back to that book fairly frequently. If I'd actually read it and then had to put up with the flashbacks in this book, I'd likely have been annoyed.
As a side note - I'm starting to become aware that there are a LOT of Canadian vampire authors with series set in Canada, especially Toronto. (Well, okay, at least two.) What's up with that?
The book is... mixed. I think I liked it as much as I did because Dmitri and Ardeth have pretty much what I would describe as a D'or/Az dynamic, and so I was just applying that into the story. (Ardeth's a little less loopy, and Dmitri a lot less violent, but it's close.) I'd give it a five or six out of ten - not really memorable.
And now, eight books in five weeks. Currently reading The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
41. Death Masks, Jim Butcher
Definitely The Dresden Files are starting to grow on me. Also, I might kind of have a crush on Michael. A little one. I mean, I don't usually go for the really religious types, but. Also, Trotskyist Knight of the Cross? I kind of love it. Maybe even love the Knights a little better than Dresden.
Also, sex with a tied-up not-yet-vampire? Kinda hot. Not that vampires are my thing, oh no.
42. Blood and Chrysanthemums, Nancy Baker
I think this is a follow-up to The Night Inside, which I hadn't read - but maybe that's a good thing, as she refers back to that book fairly frequently. If I'd actually read it and then had to put up with the flashbacks in this book, I'd likely have been annoyed.
As a side note - I'm starting to become aware that there are a LOT of Canadian vampire authors with series set in Canada, especially Toronto. (Well, okay, at least two.) What's up with that?
The book is... mixed. I think I liked it as much as I did because Dmitri and Ardeth have pretty much what I would describe as a D'or/Az dynamic, and so I was just applying that into the story. (Ardeth's a little less loopy, and Dmitri a lot less violent, but it's close.) I'd give it a five or six out of ten - not really memorable.
And now, eight books in five weeks. Currently reading The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
