Enno Rehling

This is a second book in a series, and it shows. I didn't like it half as much as the first, but soldiered my way through to the end.

I had previously only read The Crow Road, and this book seemed very familiar in its themes. David Tennant is enjoyable to listen to.

First surprise: Our heroine was a personality disorder and physical disability. Talk about under-represented groups in fantasy. The story fine urban fantasy with fey and magic, but I think the portrayal of an unusual heroine is what impressed me the most.

Short but sweet prequel novella set in the same universe as the Wayfarer series.

This was an enjoyable read. Not sure if it's YA or horror, or both.

A book that lured me in with the promise of a noir detective novel, but turns out to be an alternate history and more. Excellent world building, great characters.

Brutal. What a point in this story to declare a hiatus, I need more!

Inspector Ishida is a great new character, I hope we see more of him in the future.

With this, I think I've read every book Lucy Knisley has writyen. All of her books are little masterpieces, and they make me so very happy, I can't wait for the next one to come out. I hear it's about Linney?

My break between reading the first five volumes and this one was too long, I'm afraid I had forgotten most of the story already. They were good books, and certainly warrant a re-read at a later time.

Masterful. Nearly all the recurring characters come together in this epic story about a legendary sword.

This is probably my favorite Usagi book. Not only is Kitsune back in the very touching story “Noodles”, but all the other stories are very solid, too.

These three books were great, set in a strange universe of calendrical warfare. I still can't explain what that is, but that doesn't matter. Just remember Clarke's Law. What made this book extra challenging was the fact that the protagonist exists twice, and at least at the start, is referred to by the same name, no matter which one of them the story currently focuses on. Once again, it all netaly comes together in the end, and makes for a good “final” book.

Meh. Not really my thing, but at least now that I've seen the source material, I'm even more impressed by the TV show.

I've never lived the life of Scandinavian small town youth, but this seems like an honest account. A lot of unlikeable teenagers, though, which is one thing my teenage experience had in common.

The main character is in a band, and while there are parallels to Scott Pilgrim, there are no supernatural ex-boyfriends of Asian highschool girlfriends or video game references. Just bleak small-town realism, complete with kids driving souped up cars, sex and drinking at parties.

This was better than the first book, and I read it in a single sitting. Some fine character development that makes me want to know what happens next, but I guess this is where the series ended?

A very nice travelogue. Really makes me want to do a walking vacation like I did back when I was in school.

Just when I thought I knew what to expect, after reading Santiago, this book surprises and confuses me. The Ireland trip is okay, the Cohen biography is strange, the Napoleon story just plain weird.

This book brings back two of my favorite characters, Gen and Ino, and I have no complaints.

This book wasn't very good, and I would have quit about 30 minutes into it if I had had the foresight to bring more than one audio book on my Christmas vacation.As it was, I actually hate-listened all the way to the end.

It appears that the author tried to approximate the style of Douglas Adams, but forgot that there as more to the Hitchhiker's Guide than the endless footnotes of unnecessary exposition, and that the exposition needs to be there for a reason, and picked up on at a later point. And you can't have an entire book with characters modeled after Zaphod - you need an Arthur Dent as your straight man. What little story there is, is wilfully absurd, without ever reaching genuinely funny, there's not a single quotable paragraph, and in the end, everything resolves in a puff of deus ex machina.

If only I remembered who recommended this to me, so I could stop listening to them in the future.

I'm never going to finish this. The bad writing was taking me out of the story several times per page.

The premise is funny, the story kind of slogs along, but the finale saved it from getting a lower rating.

Would you destroy the world to create a better one? This book was great, with all of it's twists and turns, even though the wonderful world-building of the Utopia in the first book gets undone, and by the end of it, my sincere hope is that the third book will actually build something better.

A lot of my friends have had their first child last year, and after reading this book, my respect for mothers has grown immensely.

I loved the Handmaid's Tale, and I liked this book, too. The story takes us back to Gilead, but also to Canada. We learn more about the Aunts and how Gilead is founded and ruled. Not as ground-breaking as the original book, but definitely a good sequel, no reason to be concerned, Dear Reader.