Od Magic, by Patricia McKillip
It’s magical fantasy, it’s an adventure story, and it has no Quidditch. What more could I ask for?
Dead Beat, by Jim Butcher
Necromancers? Here? Oh, no, nothing bad would ever happen in Chicago. That’s Harry Dresden’s city!
Oh, wait, no. Bad things always happen in Harry Dresden’s city. Usually to Harry Dresden.
Blackmail and black magic make this one a winner.
Proven Guilty, by Jim Butcher
Yes, I am addicted to these books. Luckily, Jim Butcher likes making
money, so he keeps writing them. This is it until April, though, so
I’ll have to make it through somehow. The blurb talks about movie
monsters, which there are—but this book also features more of the
Carpenter family, and is the first one in a while to not have any
vampires on centre stage. This is somewhat reassuring—there are a
lot of people writing bad vampire novels, and if all the vampires stay
offscreen long enough to really really reassure me that Harry’s not
going to go all Anita Blake on us, I will be quite happy. (Laurel
Hamilton, why couldn’t you have stuck with vampire slaying? Why did
you have to switch to porn?) Anyway, I think Butcher’s getting better
as he writes, and it may even be enough to get me to go read his
"sword and sorcery" series (as he calls it).
Books in 2006: 39
(Will I make 52? Not likely—13 books in the next 26.5 hours. Maybe I missed some, but, then again, maybe I didn’t.)
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