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Bredahl, Peter W.: Himmelvægterne - Illuminati 1807
Is it just me or are the nephilim everywhere these days - or is just me feeling like that from too much Supernatural fanfic? Anyway, this novel annoys me a little. It's the second in a series, and the first was plain, not really that interesting historical fiction - the main plot being about a educated man forced to be a nightman (not sure what the proper English word is - basically, 18th century renovation people, absolute bottom of society kind of thing) and making his way out through bravery in battle and making powerful friends, ending up a respectable schoolteacher - which, from what I know about nightmen, probably wasn't particularly realistic, but whatever. The main reason I even picked this one up is that have an interested in the whole 1807 Bombardment, so why not? The plot's ridiculous - apparently, Carsten Niebuhr stole the Stone Tablets with the 10 Commandments out of the Ark of the Covenant during a brief detour into Ethiopia, and now the Illuminati - wanting to use them to perfect their nephilim breeding program - are scheeming to force the Danish crown prince to hand them over or have his navy stolen by the British. Yeah. Even the imprompty balloon trip doesn't really help. Am I the only one who find series that genre-shift annoying?
Brust, Steven: Yendi
I find that I like criminal fantasy (is that even a subgenre?) Anyway, Vlad Taltos is kind of awesome - and the story of him meeting the woman of his dreams, well - how many courtships do you know that starts with the lady assassinating the gent?
Dufaux, Jean: Murena volume 1.-4.
Why are all the most gorgeous comics French language, I wonder? Anyway, gorgeous comic about Nero's rise to power and his scheeming mother. Very good and I'm looking forward to the next volumes getting translated into a language I know more of than how to say hello, goodbye and what time is it in.
Marvellous fantasy - editor Jørgen Riber Christensen
You know, when a book of serious scholarly literary theory essays feature fan fiction as a listed subject - well, you kind of expect a little more than a couple of throwaway lines in a chapter about Harry Potter fandom, you know? And I was so excited, finding something other than an article from DSB's magazine about fanfic published in Denmark. Apart from that, is it just me who get performance anxiety when reading this sort of literary analysis - I mean, how can I ever become an author? I don't think of putting half the amount of stuff into a piece of writing these people can analyse their way into even from a rather mundane urban fantasy novel?
Millar, Mark: Kick-ass
The movie's better.
Myron, Vicki: Dewey - the small-town library cat that touched the world
I'm a librarian. I love cats. Why wouldn't I read this? (Although the most silly thing was the idea of a library lending cake pans - although there's the idiom about stones and glass houses, I suppose, considering my current workplace has both toys (quite nice toys, actually) and small machines to measure your blood pressure on the shelves - well, most of the toys, not literally, since a three-wheeled bicycle isn't really made for shelves, you know. Now, if we could just convince people to take them home instead of throwing them everywhere in the children's library...) Anyway...
Schätzing, Frank: The Swarm - a novel of the deep
A bit too long, perhaps, but entertaining enough - even if the thought of your country being pretty much swept away by a giant tsunami without warning is less than comforting. Oh well...
Sussi & Leo: Pyromanium
The only reason I picked this up was the authors and my mind boggling, because seriously? Sussi & Leo? Noir / science fiction novel? Does not compute. It's - not really that good. The main character has an interesting concept - he's a shapeshifter who shifts into personas stolen from the media, like Rambo, James Bond or Captain Picard. The plot is kind of nonsence and cliched, evil alien empires battling over secret nuclear paper from ancient Atlantis, and I can't make up my mind whether to be pleased that the two main villains (one from each evil alien empire) are working together because they love each other, or annoyed because they both get killed right after coming out of the closet to the protagonists - seriously, the epic tale of the space fleet general and the undercover agent with awesome healing powers even meeting and falling in love would be so much more fun than the rest, but in general, the book's too, well, predictable and dull to inspire me to even contemplate writing that fanfic - anyway, who'd even read it...
Is it just me or are the nephilim everywhere these days - or is just me feeling like that from too much Supernatural fanfic? Anyway, this novel annoys me a little. It's the second in a series, and the first was plain, not really that interesting historical fiction - the main plot being about a educated man forced to be a nightman (not sure what the proper English word is - basically, 18th century renovation people, absolute bottom of society kind of thing) and making his way out through bravery in battle and making powerful friends, ending up a respectable schoolteacher - which, from what I know about nightmen, probably wasn't particularly realistic, but whatever. The main reason I even picked this one up is that have an interested in the whole 1807 Bombardment, so why not? The plot's ridiculous - apparently, Carsten Niebuhr stole the Stone Tablets with the 10 Commandments out of the Ark of the Covenant during a brief detour into Ethiopia, and now the Illuminati - wanting to use them to perfect their nephilim breeding program - are scheeming to force the Danish crown prince to hand them over or have his navy stolen by the British. Yeah. Even the imprompty balloon trip doesn't really help. Am I the only one who find series that genre-shift annoying?
Brust, Steven: Yendi
I find that I like criminal fantasy (is that even a subgenre?) Anyway, Vlad Taltos is kind of awesome - and the story of him meeting the woman of his dreams, well - how many courtships do you know that starts with the lady assassinating the gent?
Dufaux, Jean: Murena volume 1.-4.
Why are all the most gorgeous comics French language, I wonder? Anyway, gorgeous comic about Nero's rise to power and his scheeming mother. Very good and I'm looking forward to the next volumes getting translated into a language I know more of than how to say hello, goodbye and what time is it in.
Marvellous fantasy - editor Jørgen Riber Christensen
You know, when a book of serious scholarly literary theory essays feature fan fiction as a listed subject - well, you kind of expect a little more than a couple of throwaway lines in a chapter about Harry Potter fandom, you know? And I was so excited, finding something other than an article from DSB's magazine about fanfic published in Denmark. Apart from that, is it just me who get performance anxiety when reading this sort of literary analysis - I mean, how can I ever become an author? I don't think of putting half the amount of stuff into a piece of writing these people can analyse their way into even from a rather mundane urban fantasy novel?
Millar, Mark: Kick-ass
The movie's better.
Myron, Vicki: Dewey - the small-town library cat that touched the world
I'm a librarian. I love cats. Why wouldn't I read this? (Although the most silly thing was the idea of a library lending cake pans - although there's the idiom about stones and glass houses, I suppose, considering my current workplace has both toys (quite nice toys, actually) and small machines to measure your blood pressure on the shelves - well, most of the toys, not literally, since a three-wheeled bicycle isn't really made for shelves, you know. Now, if we could just convince people to take them home instead of throwing them everywhere in the children's library...) Anyway...
Schätzing, Frank: The Swarm - a novel of the deep
A bit too long, perhaps, but entertaining enough - even if the thought of your country being pretty much swept away by a giant tsunami without warning is less than comforting. Oh well...
Sussi & Leo: Pyromanium
The only reason I picked this up was the authors and my mind boggling, because seriously? Sussi & Leo? Noir / science fiction novel? Does not compute. It's - not really that good. The main character has an interesting concept - he's a shapeshifter who shifts into personas stolen from the media, like Rambo, James Bond or Captain Picard. The plot is kind of nonsence and cliched, evil alien empires battling over secret nuclear paper from ancient Atlantis, and I can't make up my mind whether to be pleased that the two main villains (one from each evil alien empire) are working together because they love each other, or annoyed because they both get killed right after coming out of the closet to the protagonists - seriously, the epic tale of the space fleet general and the undercover agent with awesome healing powers even meeting and falling in love would be so much more fun than the rest, but in general, the book's too, well, predictable and dull to inspire me to even contemplate writing that fanfic - anyway, who'd even read it...