emilyveinglory (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} emilyveinglory) wrote,@ 2007-03-30 20:43:00 |
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'Proven Guilty' by Jim Butcher
Proven Guilty ****
by Jim Butcher
Dresden Files (8)
There really isn't much I can say about this book that isn't a spoiler. So you are going to get some random comments instead.
1) The "as seen on Sci Fi" sticker on the cover annoyed me. It should say "loosely related to something you saw first on TV only if you don't read much". As a fanficcer I am quite capable of understanding two separate but closely related fiction worlds but the disparities still bug me a little. They couldn't get an actor who was tall? VW wouldn't pay for the product placement? Magic staffs are too non-Christian?
2) Boy, this guy writes like a roller coaster. I read them as fast as I can every time.
3) Does have have to spend *all* of *every* book beaten up exhausted and depressed. Couldn't he get through just the first chapter in one piece, for the sake of contrast?
4) So, it was good.
5) But, can anyone say "Anita Blake". Sure, Harry is a guy and he is getting less and less sex in each subsequent book--but he is getting more and more powerful and more and more angsty (about getting more and more evil). It's going to start wearing a bit thin... well, in three or four more books, I guess.
p.s. Harry/Michael slash, it exists, right? It should. Even though it is *so* wrong.
Proven Guilty ****
by Jim Butcher
Dresden Files (8)
There really isn't much I can say about this book that isn't a spoiler. So you are going to get some random comments instead.
1) The "as seen on Sci Fi" sticker on the cover annoyed me. It should say "loosely related to something you saw first on TV only if you don't read much". As a fanficcer I am quite capable of understanding two separate but closely related fiction worlds but the disparities still bug me a little. They couldn't get an actor who was tall? VW wouldn't pay for the product placement? Magic staffs are too non-Christian?
2) Boy, this guy writes like a roller coaster. I read them as fast as I can every time.
3) Does have have to spend *all* of *every* book beaten up exhausted and depressed. Couldn't he get through just the first chapter in one piece, for the sake of contrast?
4) So, it was good.
5) But, can anyone say "Anita Blake". Sure, Harry is a guy and he is getting less and less sex in each subsequent book--but he is getting more and more powerful and more and more angsty (about getting more and more evil). It's going to start wearing a bit thin... well, in three or four more books, I guess.
p.s. Harry/Michael slash, it exists, right? It should. Even though it is *so* wrong.
