Actually, really glad about the review in EW. I was talking with a library patron today that has read all the books and enjoyed them all -- but the last one she did not find appropriate for her 12 yr old son. ( who is probably reading twilight because it is going to be a movie). Between this mom and the EW review I was able to give a co-worker some info she could use to talk to her daughter -- who is only 13.She isn't going to try and stop her.
Actually , the mom that I talked to -- said the worst part about Breaking dawn was that
everyone got exactly what t they wanted at the end
Okay, I'm basing that solely on the preview snippet I read, and nothing else, but it still packed a lot of heavy-handed description into a few preview pages
Nah, that's a totally fair assessment, as one who has read his novels.
I'm surprised the Breaking Dawn fans didn't decide to send sparkles.
Perhaps the recipients should be grateful for small favors.
"What is toffee exactly?"
I finished
Wicked Lovely
last night -- and I know a couple of people reccomended it - Thank you. Seriously, it ought to hook most of the
Twilight
crowd because it is so romantic. but with a number of strong female characters
Perfect
Jilli, a review from the latest Publisher's Weekly that might be of interest:
The Dracula Dossier by James Reese
In Reese's scrupulously imagined thriller, told largely through entries from a lost journal kept by the author of Dracula in 1888, Bram Stoker attends an indoctrination ceremony of the Order of the Golden Dawn, at the behest of Oscar Wilde's mum and a young William Butler Yeats. The ceremony goes horribly awry, resulting in one participant—Francis Tumblety, a patent medicine salesman newly arrived from America—becoming a vessel for the evil Egyptian god Set and applying his surgical skills to the slaughter of Whitechapel prostitutes in order to draw Stoker out for a supernatural showdown.
Bestseller Reese (The Witchery) so perfectly pastiches the journal format that initially, his story reads as dry and boringly as most private diaries. With Tumblety's malignant conversion, though, the novel turns into a rip-roaring penny dreadful that compels reading to the end. Dracula fans will apreciate the nods to well-known works that Stoker wrote supposedly follwoing this confrontation. (Oct.)
Has anyone read Tana French's book
In the Woods
? I finished it late last night and thought it was frantabulous.
Jilli, a review from the latest Publisher's Weekly that might be of interest:
The Dracula Dossier by James Reese
Hmmm. It sounds interesting, but I'm always a bit wary of books that try to combine Dracula and anything like Jack the Ripper. Because honestly, none of them are going to top
Anno Dracula
by Kim Newman. But, I'm sure I'll end up picking up
The Dracula Dossier.
Because I'm predictable like that.
Oh,
The Dracula Dossier
sounds like fun.
