Whatta Fiasco

Frustratingly, I didn’t really start to care about most of these characters until just as the book was ending. Just as I was ready to get invested in the story, it ended.

[powells]

This was one of those books where I was glad to get it done so I could go read what other people were saying about it. Yes, an interesting book. My biggest complaint is that the beginning of the story, the coming of age of Green, doesn’t meld well in my reading with the rest of the book.

[powells]

This feels like two books stuck together, or maybe even three. All of them were good stories but I wanted more of each of them. I also suspect that not having read the novel before this didn’t help.

[powells]

The previous novel in this set, Trial of Flowers blew me away. This one didn’t quite live up to that mark, but still a good read.

[powells]

A pleasantly unpleasant return of Abigail and Sebastian. Go read New Amsterdam first.

[amazon]

Fabulously literal urban fantasy. And while it’s still full of the disconcerting strangeness of Mieville, it’s easily the most approachable of his books.

[powells]

I really wanted to like this book. It had some characters I liked and characters I loathed and some cool word building… and then the ending just mucked it all up. Either this book is broken or it’s just not the book I wanted it to be. Eh, you can’t like them all.

[powells]

There’s something about the way that Jeff Vandermeer writes that just clicks with me. Even when nothing much seems to be happening, I’m sucked in. Yes, I have a copy of Finch wending its way toward me already.

[powells]

The first of these is still my favorite, but this one wasn’t bad at all. Still one more to read. (And this is the last of my catch up posts. Whew.)

[powells]

Ok, I give up. Tosca is no longer my lest favorite opera. I still think the plot resolution is silly, even in opera terms, and the story telling is choppy. It also doesn’t help that I don’t much care for either Tosca or her boyfriend. But Scarpia is the most delightful of villains. Apparently that was what I needed in order to actually listen to the music. Not bad at all.