I reviewed the first book in this series a few months ago and made the comment that it had a very weak through story line, tending towards the episodic like the levels in a video game. Unfortunately, “A Very Different Game” starts out not too different; much of the story could be termed “A bunch…
Month: December 2017
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“Fire on the Mountain” – Clabe Polk
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This is a rather different police procedural novel, since most of the procedures seem to be discussed over the lunch special at Bertie’s Diner. It has a cast of country store front-porch philosophers, setting a tone that contrasts with the stark reality of sexual abuse and drug addiction that lurks in the dark corners of…
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“King’s Envoy: Artesans of Albia Trilogy” by Cas Peace
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Warning: This is a gateway book. You may become hooked. Over the past couple of years I have read this whole, nine-book series and reviewed several of the novels so I come back to the first book with a new perspective. Re-reading it, I was even more impressed at how well it introduces the total…
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“So I Might Be a Vampire” Rodney V. Smith
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As I was reading this book, I was thinking, “This must be written by a professional.” The writing is crisp, clean and witty. Wonderful characters tumble forth in profusion, written in a style of world-weary self-consciousness that has the author talking directly to the reader and coming clean on the nuts-and-bolts of the writing process:…
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“Work of Art: an Intention of Flowers” by Ken la Salle
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This is a real “oner” as my mother-in-law used to say. It’s a book about the originality in art and how it applies to the originality in people. And don’t let that put you off. This is a story about people. About original, one-of-a-kind people who don’t do what you expect them to, but when…