Olyvia purchased this on my behalf – I had been given a voucher for Dymocks, which is a terrible choice, because there are so few Dymocks stores, and they are so far away from anywhere I go. Time passed, and eventually reached the point where I one day to spend the voucher or lose it [...]
Archive for March, 2009
15 Mar
Foxmask (Juliet Marillier)
This is the sequel to Wolfskin – to understand the relationships that underlay the characters, it would certainly be best to have read Wolfskin first, although this is a standalone story, not part two of two (or three), which is certainly refreshing. I purchased this at the same time as Wolfskin, so I wasn’t then [...]
15 Mar
Wolfskin (Juliet Marillier)
The main reason that I bought Wolfskin was because I noticed that Marillier was a New Zealander (or at least was born here, although she lives in Australia now), and there’s not really very many NZ sci-fi/fantasy authors or books, and I’d like to support the locals as much as possible. (As an aside, my [...]
15 Mar
Fallout (Kevin J. Anderson & Doug Deason)
I quite enjoyed this (a lot more than I enjoyed Resurrection Inc.). This is really a pretty straight-forward action/adventure style story (the same sort of story as, e.g., 24). I read a few stories along these general lines (e.g. the Dan Brown books) over the second half of 2008, and they were a nice break [...]
15 Mar
Resurrection Inc. (Kevin J. Anderson)
For some time, I was posting my mini-reviews on Pownce, which seemed to suit the short format . I’ve mostly switched to using Twitter instead of Pownce now, but 140 characters is a bit too short. I don’t really want to create a new account somewhere else, so I guess they can go here for [...]
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