recent reading
Feb. 2nd, 2007 06:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunrabLately, it's been murder mysteries for a while: Curiosity Killed the Cat-Sitter by Blaize Clement (reviewed at Amazon.com here; as ever, please clickie the helpful button if you like the review; I am vain and get an entirely disproportionate thrill out of being in the Top 1000 reviewers.) This turned out to be less silly, and better plotted, than I was afraid of from the title.
A Mammoth Murder by Bill Crider - latest in his Sheriff Dan Rhodes series, a nice reliable series with adequate plotting and some funny continuing characters.
And some fantasy/sf: Strange Candy by Laurell Hamilton - a collection of short stories, some of them Anita Blake, mostly interpolated in time in between various novels, and mercifully lacking the excess porn that has characterized the more recent novels.
The Machine's Child - a disappointing entry in Kage Baker's Company series. This one brings us up to 2352, in an amazingly annoying way. I finally got through the book by deciding to regard it as short stories that happened to be interleaved; this way, I could enjoy some individual excellent scenes. The ending was particularly disappointing. Joseph's enjoyment of being a Rogue Cyborg, complete with capital letters, is pretty funny.
A Conspiracy of Genes - a YA novel by Mark de Castrique, part medical suspense thriller, a bit of science fiction, and large doses of the typical YA conceit that teenagers are smarter than adults. It's not awful, but it's a bit weak, and the fact that our protagonist is named Gene and his girlfriend is Jeanne is awfully cutesy.
A Mammoth Murder by Bill Crider - latest in his Sheriff Dan Rhodes series, a nice reliable series with adequate plotting and some funny continuing characters.
And some fantasy/sf: Strange Candy by Laurell Hamilton - a collection of short stories, some of them Anita Blake, mostly interpolated in time in between various novels, and mercifully lacking the excess porn that has characterized the more recent novels.
The Machine's Child - a disappointing entry in Kage Baker's Company series. This one brings us up to 2352, in an amazingly annoying way. I finally got through the book by deciding to regard it as short stories that happened to be interleaved; this way, I could enjoy some individual excellent scenes. The ending was particularly disappointing. Joseph's enjoyment of being a Rogue Cyborg, complete with capital letters, is pretty funny.
A Conspiracy of Genes - a YA novel by Mark de Castrique, part medical suspense thriller, a bit of science fiction, and large doses of the typical YA conceit that teenagers are smarter than adults. It's not awful, but it's a bit weak, and the fact that our protagonist is named Gene and his girlfriend is Jeanne is awfully cutesy.
