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Briggs, Patricia: Blood bound
Yep, still liking urban fantasy :-)
Carey, Mike: Thicker Than Water
Okay, so Castor is basically a John Constantine clone, which isn't exactly surprising considering the author, but it's still a pretty good series.
Corben, Richard: Neverwhere
I admit I read this for the title - it's a comic, planetary fantasy somewhere west of Gor with naked people everywhere and possibly Cthulhu doing a cameo. Not really that exciting or even half as gorgeous as all the blurbs insisted...
Dahlager, Lars & Rothenborg, Michael: Turen går til de varme lande
You know, if it wasn't for the rest of the world, global warming wouldn't sound like such a bad idea. Of course, I'm just lucky to be born in a nice little smørhul like Denmark :-) (come on, the scientists think my home country will get a climate along the lines of southern France - can't I be at least a little happy about the possibility?)
Harrison, Kim: Every which way but dead
Harrison, Kim: A fistful of charms
Oh, this is still a very fun series. Hope it continues to be so.
King, Laurie R.: The Art of Detection
Not bad. Crossovers can be terribly clumsy, especially the official ones, but this handles the crossing between Kate Martinelli and Mary Russell's verses quite elegantly. Elegantly understated, I should say - besides, I like the image of Sherlock Holmes the gentlemen investigating the case of the disappearance of the drag queen's boyfriend :-)
Knallhatt, Jesper: Baade - og fredag
Lene Andersen is a very smart person. This series has been very interesting and somewhat heavy reading, loads of evolution and philosophy and global existensialism and memes and the future and how the future will be. How we can make the future be what we want it to be, hopefully, if we get a grip and just try. Also, how can I not love smart books using Neil Gaiman's Coraline as an example of the dangerous seductive powers of totalitarianism and liberally sprinkles with Douglas Adams' quotes?
Snyder, Maria V.: Poison Study
Perfectly fine fantasy in the by now slightly predictable mold of young woman with unusual powers. However, the whole romantic subplot felt - lacking. As if the author wanted there to be chemistry, but we're never shown any. The sneaky sort-of-vizier just seems to take one look at our heroine and there we go. Yeah, right...
Whedon, Joss: Time of Your Life
I'm kind of ambivalent about season eight of Buffy - not because of the medium, I like comics and I was ambivalent about season seven and six too, so. Some of it I like, like the Dracula appearance in the previous collection, but this one wasn't really all that interesting. Besides, I find it harder and harder to sympathize with the heroes, because they aren't very heroic - not cheering for the bad guys, but you must admit they have some points. Army of mystically powerful warrior girls claiming to protect mankind, helping themselves to needed "ressources" because they feel entitled, not answering to any authority outside themselves (outside the government, beyond the police - oops, wrong bunch of people) - anybody surprised a bunch of alarm bells seem to ringing? Not me.
Wood, Brian: Northlanders - Sven the Returned
It's alright, I suppose. Mind you, I've said it before, but I feel compelled to repeat that I'd love to see how the old Norse would react to modern day Scandinavia. It would be - interesting. (Actually, the fact that a mere 1000 years was enough to turn blood-thirsty barbarian warriors feared by all into, well, us, is actually one of the reasons I have hope for humanity being capable of settling down and making friends, given enough time, anyway...
Yep, still liking urban fantasy :-)
Carey, Mike: Thicker Than Water
Okay, so Castor is basically a John Constantine clone, which isn't exactly surprising considering the author, but it's still a pretty good series.
Corben, Richard: Neverwhere
I admit I read this for the title - it's a comic, planetary fantasy somewhere west of Gor with naked people everywhere and possibly Cthulhu doing a cameo. Not really that exciting or even half as gorgeous as all the blurbs insisted...
Dahlager, Lars & Rothenborg, Michael: Turen går til de varme lande
You know, if it wasn't for the rest of the world, global warming wouldn't sound like such a bad idea. Of course, I'm just lucky to be born in a nice little smørhul like Denmark :-) (come on, the scientists think my home country will get a climate along the lines of southern France - can't I be at least a little happy about the possibility?)
Harrison, Kim: Every which way but dead
Harrison, Kim: A fistful of charms
Oh, this is still a very fun series. Hope it continues to be so.
King, Laurie R.: The Art of Detection
Not bad. Crossovers can be terribly clumsy, especially the official ones, but this handles the crossing between Kate Martinelli and Mary Russell's verses quite elegantly. Elegantly understated, I should say - besides, I like the image of Sherlock Holmes the gentlemen investigating the case of the disappearance of the drag queen's boyfriend :-)
Knallhatt, Jesper: Baade - og fredag
Lene Andersen is a very smart person. This series has been very interesting and somewhat heavy reading, loads of evolution and philosophy and global existensialism and memes and the future and how the future will be. How we can make the future be what we want it to be, hopefully, if we get a grip and just try. Also, how can I not love smart books using Neil Gaiman's Coraline as an example of the dangerous seductive powers of totalitarianism and liberally sprinkles with Douglas Adams' quotes?
Snyder, Maria V.: Poison Study
Perfectly fine fantasy in the by now slightly predictable mold of young woman with unusual powers. However, the whole romantic subplot felt - lacking. As if the author wanted there to be chemistry, but we're never shown any. The sneaky sort-of-vizier just seems to take one look at our heroine and there we go. Yeah, right...
Whedon, Joss: Time of Your Life
I'm kind of ambivalent about season eight of Buffy - not because of the medium, I like comics and I was ambivalent about season seven and six too, so. Some of it I like, like the Dracula appearance in the previous collection, but this one wasn't really all that interesting. Besides, I find it harder and harder to sympathize with the heroes, because they aren't very heroic - not cheering for the bad guys, but you must admit they have some points. Army of mystically powerful warrior girls claiming to protect mankind, helping themselves to needed "ressources" because they feel entitled, not answering to any authority outside themselves (
Wood, Brian: Northlanders - Sven the Returned
It's alright, I suppose. Mind you, I've said it before, but I feel compelled to repeat that I'd love to see how the old Norse would react to modern day Scandinavia. It would be - interesting. (Actually, the fact that a mere 1000 years was enough to turn blood-thirsty barbarian warriors feared by all into, well, us, is actually one of the reasons I have hope for humanity being capable of settling down and making friends, given enough time, anyway...