Nomad Scry
Like the best graphic novels, the art here extends and expands the story told in words. The ghost stories were the best.
Interesting tale that reminds me of first season Earth: Final Conflict. I “accidentally” extended a break or two to finish the story, though I was mystified by a turn of heart at the end.
The images are awesome. The binding is wretched. I won't be able to even look through once before the pages are going to fall out. It's a shame.
Wow, what a difference a good narator makes. Despite how closely the story line mimics the prior two John Carter stories, I found Warlords a lot more enjoyable and a lot easier to focus on... and I blame that squarely on the narrator.
Creeeeeepy! I couldn't listen to this one when I was falling asleep. The ending was a bit mush for me but that was okay. The shear amount of hair raising, shivers, and uncomfortable confusion more than made up for anything I could invent to complain about. (The narrator did an excellent job, especially with Annie and Campbell.)
A children's bedtime story book... for parents. This is a perfect book for that night when your teething toddler or colicky infant won't stop fussing, won't stop crying, won't go to sleep.
I really liked the setting. The history and the Children are very cool and I'd really like to see something more in an epic vein set in this world.
On the other hand, the mystery of who killed Greta didn't draw my interest as much. I couldn't have possibly guessed, ahead of time, who the secret villain was and I think that was a let down. Oh and I really didn't understand what the secret visitor in Arames' head was on about when he disappeared at last. That seemed like a really cool idea that was given short shift because it had little to do with the mystery story.
I do wish I could read like Gaiman... Lovely comforting voice. I shared this with my almost three year old and she was listening intently until she fell asleep. Which is a big thumbs up from her.
While a good bit is simply outdated by the passage of time, the idea that chicken footing around is only prolonging the issues that caused the depression and kept the depression going for so long is not something to be overlooked.
Fun take on shape-shifting dragons hiding in the midst of our world. I was unaware this was book 2 of the series and I don't feel it hurt the story at all.
Overly simplified, the core idea of this book is silly. So I prefer not to simplify or spoil this one and simply say, “Read it.”
Bennett is one of the best multi-voice narrators I've heard, right up there with Cayenne Chris Conroy. Because of that, it is a bit hard for me to say how much of my enjoyment was for his writing and how much was for his reading. Either way, this was some damn good old-school-with-a-fresh-twist vampire action.
I'm not comfortable rating this one. The story was good but the copy was distracting and confusing.
I was worried, at first, that I wasn't going to like The Way of the Black Beast, because I had some trouble just getting into and understanding the story. For instance, when the character of Fawbry is first introduced, I read and re-read that sentence multiple times trying to decide what the heck was going on. “Fawbry, she had said, was a minor nuisance in Terrgar.”Maybe it was just me (I know I can be a mite dense sometimes) but I just didn't get that Fawbry was a character name, not a place name. I read it as a city that was causing trouble for a country, but knew that couldn't be right (contextually speaking.) I am glad that I stuck with it though, because it wasn't much past 6% into the novel when the story started to resonate for me. It wasn't until much later that I realized that I felt much the same about this story as I had when reading C.J. Cherryh's [b:The Morgaine Saga 57040 The Morgaine Saga (Morgaine Saga, Books 1, 2, and 3) C.J. Cherryh http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170461551s/57040.jpg 55568]. And that's a pretty good compliment, in my opinion. Malja is one of those cool and conflicted characters that, like Drizzt Do'Urden, probably isn't very realistic and probably wouldn't be fun to hang out with in reality, but she sure is a blast to read as she slices and dices her way through the men and beasts standing in her way. The fact that she isn't invulnerable physically, just makes the stakes that much more interesting. Oh, and her damned-to-fail attempts to protect her mute ward from using his special skills, yeah... so sad. So fun to read.So, basically, if you like moody, ambient fantasy/post-apocalyptic smashups, then this is right up your alley.
Such a weird and ominous story. I definitely enjoyed it better with the narrator than I did when I read it to myself.
Despite some initial suspicions because the story felt like a second book, not a first, I was pleasantly surprised by just how nicely the end ended.
A fast and pleasant read with lots of room to allow for future stories, though I'm not certain I will make the effort to find those stories when they come.
My only complaint is that the story is too short. Good thing there are more books in the series!
While there was a lot to like about Geist, I think the best thing I can say about it is that it is an absolute page-turner. I expected a good story from Ballantine, and I sure got it.
Deliciously vile. I don't normally enjoy zombie novels, but Dead Mech is so disgusting and screwed up that it transcends its genre and becomes the same sort of mesmerizing glorification of filth that the True Blood tv show excels at.
My 8 month old likes the pictures, but prefers the “eating factor” of several of her other books.