Bookshelves of Lesser Doom
A spot for my on-the-fly mini-posts:
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Most everything else is at Bookshelves of Doom.
Posts tagged fantasy
Sep 14 '11
Sep 7 '11
Aug 9 '11
★
The Vampire Stalker, by Allison van Diepen.
Pros:
- Awesome premise: Obsessive fan of book series gets to interact with characters from said series when they accidentally wander through a portal from their world into our world. Kind of Jasper Fforde-does-Twilight.
Cons:
- The premise is far stronger than the execution: The characters are flat and never develop, there’s a distinct lack of any sort of tension; the dialogue is choppy and the description tends towards the Tell rather than the Show.
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Aug 8 '11
★
“Moody, psychologically probing and sometimes terrifying, Mr. Sleator’s work chronicled young people’s passage through all manner of dystopias. It was a fitting juxtaposition of age group and subject matter, for what, after all, is more dystopian than adolescence?”
— The NYT obituary for William Sleator.
(Source: The New York Times)
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Mar 30 '11
★
“Diana Wynne Jones was cheerful, energetic and accident-prone, and often admitted to laughing out loud as she wrote.”
— The Telegraph.
(Source: telegraph.co.uk)
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Mar 15 '11
★
“If Tender Morsels had a love child with Madapple, and My Sweet Audrina was the midwife, it might turn out looking like Franny Billingsley’s crazy good new fantasy, CHIME.”
— Reading Rants, on Franny Billingsley’s Chime.
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Mar 9 '11
