03-26-2011, 03:48 PM
Been enjoying a very steady diet of junk food books lately. I suppose it's because I'm eating so healthy; I'm getting my junk food elsewhere.
Patricia Briggs - River Marked. Worst one of the Mercy Thompson series thus far; I think this the "jump the shark" book in this series. Mercy (who shifts into coyote form at will) and Adam (a werewolf) get married and explore her native American heritage and kill a Chinese dragon-like river devil with a stone knife and a fae walking stick, all the time proving that they love each other. Gag/snore.
J. D. Robb (a.k.a. Nora Roberts) - Treachery in Death. Same-old, same-old in the In Death series. Exact same characters, developing and maturing ever-so-slightly. Mildly entertaining in the same way that all the others in this series are -- no surprises. But there's something to be said for consistency in junk food - when I'm eating an Entenmann's chocolate covered doughnut, I expect an Entenmann's chocolate covered donut - I don't want Entenmann's to mess around with it.
The library promises that Pale Demon - the next Kim Harrison - is on the way and should be available to me next Tuesday.
Patricia Briggs - River Marked. Worst one of the Mercy Thompson series thus far; I think this the "jump the shark" book in this series. Mercy (who shifts into coyote form at will) and Adam (a werewolf) get married and explore her native American heritage and kill a Chinese dragon-like river devil with a stone knife and a fae walking stick, all the time proving that they love each other. Gag/snore.
J. D. Robb (a.k.a. Nora Roberts) - Treachery in Death. Same-old, same-old in the In Death series. Exact same characters, developing and maturing ever-so-slightly. Mildly entertaining in the same way that all the others in this series are -- no surprises. But there's something to be said for consistency in junk food - when I'm eating an Entenmann's chocolate covered doughnut, I expect an Entenmann's chocolate covered donut - I don't want Entenmann's to mess around with it.
The library promises that Pale Demon - the next Kim Harrison - is on the way and should be available to me next Tuesday.
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