DNF. Bland prose, uninteresting and implausible characters, and a story that hadn't gotten interesting 100 pages into a 260 page novel. I'm patient, but that's ridiculous. Also, it's a vampire story, and Sinners and The Vampire Hunter Hunter are both fresh enough in my head that mediocrity just won't do.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias
I went into this novel with something like high hopes, and they more or less did not come to pass. The novel is cluttered and crowded, mud...
-
Well, this was a bit of a disappointment. Not *horrible*, but a bit bland. and with stakes that in the end seemed abruptly lower--in the s...
-
A beautiful novel about life as a mobster (in 1940s Tampa) and all the contradictions and complications of it. Lehane clearly has an ear f...
-
This is a deeply romantic series of adventures in the pursuit of solving a mystery. There are references to Doyle, it's possible the aut...

No comments:
Post a Comment