Three Quick Reviews

[jeriendhal]

Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception: It's hard to use the phrase "taut thriller" in conjunction with a novel aimed at the ten to fourteen year old demographic, but this book does the job nicely. This is only my second AF book after reading the Artemis Fowl graphic novel, so the nasty twist in the first quarter hit me hard, given the graphic novel was (a bit) lighter in tone. It's a book that seems to mark very definite character changes for Holly and Artemis at the least.

The reader on the CD I was listening too was very good, marred by a choice to voice Opal Koboi as a stereotypical Asian Dragon Lady, which doesn't make a lick of sense given that she's supposed to be a pixie from European Faerie lore. It's not supported by the text, and it tended to grate, given how sensitive I've become to Asian stereotypes after adopting Georgia


The Light Brigade: Deep in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge, a group of American soldiers find themselves pulled into a very different war, when a wounded angel falls to the earth, warning that the last of the outcast Grigori and his Nephalim allies are seeking a sword that will permit the fallen angel to storm Heaven and perhaps kill God himself.

Okay, if you can swallow that summary, this is a pretty kicking graphic novel. Hell, you've even got Marcus Longinius walking around with the Spear of Destiny. Of course from an In Nomine perspective it's all nasty anti-Grigori propaganda, the question being which side of the War produced it.


Fables: Jack of Fables and the Not So Great Escape, Wolves, 1001 Nights of Snowfall: Okay, why didn't anyone TELL ME about this series?

Proceeds to hug Bigby and Snow, then kick Jack Horner in his smug ass.

Comments

[aberrantangels]

This is only my second AF book after reading the Artemis Fowl graphic novel

Then you've missed one, as Opal Deception is the fourth in the series overall.

a choice to voice Opal Koboi as a stereotypical Asian Dragon Lady, which doesn't make a lick of sense

...okay, note to self: don't get the audiobooks of anything with Opal in. I hear her as, basically, Queen Luna of the Lunataks (you know, from ThunderCats?).

this is a pretty kicking graphic novel.

I saw excerpts on scans_daily, and yes it is.

Of course from an In Nomine perspective it's all nasty anti-Grigori propaganda, the question being which side of the War produced it.

It's basically pro-Heaven, so I'd go with them.

Okay, why didn't anyone TELL ME about this series?

For the same reason nobody told me about The Machine Girl, or told mephron that there was going to be a Witch Mountain remake with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in: you didn't ask.

kick Jack Horner in his smug ass.

Good on you. Maybe that'll stop him demanding that I play him at milliways_bar (where I've done most of my RPing since INL faded out).

[chewipaka.livejournal.com]

No one told you about Fables because the first two graphic novels kinda sucked, with a not-terribly intriguing story and bad art.

Though I have heard good things about later issues, I have yet to be convinced.