Jim Butcher is everything I want to be when I grow up. He's an amazing urban fiction story teller. He has the ability to create a world that exists under and within the very fabric of this one. Harry Dresden is self proclaimed as the only wizard in the phone book. His clients range from fairies, humans, and the occasional werewolf types. Overall if your look for mystery and or magic check this series out soon. Book one you get to see Harry hurl lightning and giant demons, and book two finds Harry shooting silver bullets. Book three opens with a little ghost buster action, and Book four Harry gets caught in the a middle of a game of chess that is much bigger then anything he has encountered prior to this. Book four finds itself to be my favorite thus far.
When Boy Meets Boy, and Boy has the same name as Boy, Boy's flip out. A charming tale of a young straight boy and young gay boy whose lives are irrevocably connected. I came to know them as Big Will and Little Will. Not because of actual size or shape, but because of personalities. Big Will experiences life with a very confident and gay best friend. Little Will is depressed and "in love" with a guy who he's never met. The story was very well crafted, leaving the characters to almost dance their way into the events with fluid change of emotions and angst.
Samhain is the main character of this wonderfully witty novel. More comfortably called Sam, the main character struggles to accept a new friends death, deal with being attacked by some crazy person, working some crappy part time job, and oh yea...he's kinda being accused of being a necromancer. He seems to know nothing about any of this and is forced in to submission by the local big bad necromancer, even though Sam has no idea about anything metaphysical. Many sects of magic are brought in to this book and play together well to create a very strong novel.
Sherman Alexie is a classic author who is studied in many classes between high school and college. It's because he has a wonderful way of twisting truth into a passionate story. Elements of Native American life tossed into the modern day crazy that our world is, Alexie allows the reader to become what they are not. A young boy going against all odds and trying to make something of himself, when everyone keeps telling him that he can't.
I begrudgingly started this book after many people in my life, namely my mother, blazed through the series. This is the same way I was tricked into reading and liking Twilight. Ill read most anything if you give me someone to talk about it with during the journey and after the end. Marked creates a parallel world, where Vampyres are marked and brought to learn how to be proper adults. Not all of them survive the painful transformation and even less know what they will do after school's out. Not a bad read, definitely should check it out if you are afraid of trusting teenage vampire novels like I am. It's safe.
A satirical novel, twisting Macbeth into a very comical and witty book. From start to finish I was chuckling at the one liners from characters like Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg. Enter Three Witches is not enough cue for the main characters of this book. Shakespeare watch out, because Terry Pratchet may entertain many more audiences with his own versions.
I read this because of the movie coming out. I didn't know of James Frye's involvement when I started. I don't know that it would have mattered prior. I liked the book, I'm not a big SciFi person but this was good. It was enough fantasy not to be to spacey alien. There were the usual; "We taught humans how to advance their civilization" but I was okay with it. The bad guys were creepy, but in a "I would have to shoot from 10 foot, because I don't want you that close to me" kinda way.
Hope you read something new because of this. These are short but my next reviews will be much longer then these, going into more detail with out revealing the main points of the plot if I can help it.
