| Finished |
Book Title |
Author |
Genre |
Pages |
| Dec 30 |
Butcher Bird |
Richard Kadrey |
Urban Fantasy |
257 |
| Jan 09 |
Territory |
Emma Bull |
Historical Fantasy |
Audio |
| Feb 15 |
A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects |
Cat Valente |
Faerie Tale Poetry anthology |
163 |
| Jan 09 |
Jigs and Reels |
Joanne Harris |
Short story anthology |
273
|
| Mar 03 |
Watchmen |
Alan Moore |
Fantasy/Horror graphic novel |
12 issues |
| Mar 30 |
The Witch's Familiar |
Raven Grimassi |
New Age nonfic |
155 |
| Apr 20 |
Too Many Curses |
A. Lee Martinez |
Fantasy/humour, YA |
316 |
| Apr 28 |
Jane-Emily / The Witch's Children |
Patricia Clapp |
Supernatural |
273 |
| May 7 |
The Magicians and Mrs. Quent |
Galen Beckett |
Fantasy / suspense |
498 |
| June 2 |
A Madness of Angels |
Kate Griffin |
Urban Fantasy |
458 |
| June 8 |
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies |
Austen and Grahame-Smith |
Horror |
Abandoned @189 |
I finally threw in the bloodsoaked towel on P&P&Z. I just could not choke down any more of it, and frankly, life is far too short to actually
suffer through fiction if you aren't getting graded on it, or paid for it!
Here's the thing; it's crackfic -- that much is plain the instant one looks at the cover. But crackfic must be brief and punchy in order to carry it off, and this just... draaaaaaags. The random insertions of crack into Jane's original text soon lose the name of 'clever' or 'wacky', and become annoying instead. They become so boring, they give the reader time to examine with dusgust the author's haphazard research, and ignorant, poorly done cultural appropriation. When I bloody well CARE that Elizabeth shouldn't be carrying a fecking Katana if she was schooled by Chinese masters instead of Japanese, then the sad fact is that your prose sucks, Sir. A tiny bit of attention to detail, or research would have smoothed it over, just like a bit of attention to character, plot speed, and continuity would have likely gone over well, but Mr. G-S couldn't be bothered, clearly.
Pardon me if I sound overly harsh. It's disappointment speaking; I really did have enormous hopes for this book. And worse, I can see where he
could have really made this idea high-larious, if only he'd taken the time and trouble to do so. Add to that, the fact that this DOG is on the bestseller lists, and, well, you have one annoyed Clue. People snapped it up on the basis of its edgy conceit, just like I did, and all I can think is that I hope, for the sake of my faith in humanity's intelligence, that they're all rather regretting that impulse now.
In short; a neat idea, and I wish a better writer had thought of it.
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