A few friends mentioned “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo“, but the title screamed Chick Lit to me so I avoided reading it until now. Well, it just goes to show you shouldn’t judge a book by the cover/title. It’s a down-and-dirty detective story with some rather grim elements, but it’s really engrossing and a [...]
Unseen Academicals is the 37th book in the Discworld series. When I first started reading the series I found Terry Pratchett‘s writing style a little strange. Having had a long break from reading his stuff, switching back was a little difficult at first. Fortunately the characters are brilliant, so you get drawn back in fairy [...]
Turn Coat (book 11 of The Dresden Files) is another non-stop barrage of action and magic. It ties up some loose ends from previous books, but also leaves a few dangling. That is the last in the series (in paperback). These books are like catnip, so I’m planning to manage my withdrawal by reading Unseen Academicals, which is [...]
Small Favour (book 10 of The Dresden Files) is about as intense as they come. It’s like most of the elements of the previous 9 books have been thrown into a blender and produced a perfect cocktail. It’s just an endless onslaught of Fairie Queens, Fallen Angels, Gangsters and now Harry has the attention of [...]
I was a little hesitant when I started reading White Night (Book 9 of The Dresden Files). Proven Guilty had been so good I though this book could only be a let down. Fortunately it wasn’t. Non-stop action, overcoming insurmountable odds and a liberal dose of magic thrown in. Sweet. Cheers Tim…
Proven Guilty is by far the best book in The Dresden Files series (so far) in my opinion. The pace is really intense and it’s quite emotional, for want of a better description. I’m almost scared to read the next book because it must surely be a let down in comparison. Cheers Tim… PS. Mouse [...]
In Dead Beat (book 7 of The Dresden Files), Harry is in the middle of a power struggle between some seriously bad-ass black magic practitioners who want to turn themselves into Gods. Since the last episode, his puppy has turned into something resembling a small woolly mammoth. Cheers Tim…
In Blood Rites, book 6 of The Dresden Files, Harry works on the set of a porn film, gets himself a pet dog and finds he has a long lost half-brother. All that and he manages to fight some Black Court vampires, almost make friends with the White Court vampires and continue being at war [...]
I take back everything I said in my previous post about knowing why I would fall out of love with The Dresden Files. I’ve just finished Death Masks and all the elements I was starting to get bored of have fallen by the wayside. As a writer it’s very hard to know how much to [...]
As I mentioned in a previous post, I lost my first copy of Fool Moon in New Zealand, so after finishing Grave Peril I skipped back and finished Fool Moon, then moved on to Summer Knight. The books do make some references to previous events, so reading them out of order was not the best [...]