Three Quick Reviews
Jan. 28th, 2009 06:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
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.
