Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Ahahaha! Tim is now 7 chapters into the 5th Skulduggery Pleasant book.
SO MUCH WIN.
I didn't even have to offer him sex to get him to read it.
And now he's like, "I get why everyone thinks the Necromancers are such dicks. BECAUSE THEY ARE." And I'm like, "You have NO IDEA."
I got a little further into Dance with Dragons. And, whoa, the Bastard of Bolton is a complete psycho.
Curses! I accidentally got the 5th Parasol Protectorate from the library before the 4th. It's just sitting there, taunting me.
Ugh, Silver on the Tree is the worst of the five! Whatever, Dark is Rising Sequence. What. Ever. I tried.
Hey, I totally hated Geek Love. Not all books are for all readers.
Silver on the Tree absolutely is the worst of the five.
Greenwitch was my favorite, and I think I like Over Sea, Under Stone a little more in retrospect. And maybe even The Dark Is Rising is better in retrospect. If only because they're all better than The Grey King and Silver on the Tree.
Funny, because it was The Grey King that won all the awards. I actually like it a lot, because it's really spooky and atmospheric, and has all that tragic backstory associated with it.
The end of Silver on the Tree always annoys me, though: WHY do they have to forget everything? I'm not alone: every year there are a couple of Yuletide stories that "fix" that. Some of them are quite good, actually.
I actually like it a lot, because it's really spooky and atmospheric, and has all that tragic backstory associated with it.
There's some good stuff, but mostly it spends pages and pages on sheep and being Welsh with very little happening.
WHY do they have to forget everything?
Because mortals are dumb! Old Ones are the best! Being special is special!
You really didn't like The Grey King? I think that's the best, though I like The Dark Is Rising, personally. The Welsh connections really intrigued me. That's about all I remember from it, but it's enough to leave a positive takeaway anyhow.
I don't find myself recommending The Dark Is Rising very much these days, but it was important to me. In this modern age, with good fantasy series so much more prevalent, it's not as impressive.