Category Archives: detective fiction
Review 151: Ghost Story
Ghost Story by Jim Butcher Hell’s Bells count: 27 In the acknowledgment section of the book, where Butcher very kindly thanks all the people who helped it come into existence, he clarifies something very important: the end of the last … Continue reading
Filed under afterlife, death, detective fiction, Dresden Files, fairies, fantasy, ghosts, Jim Butcher, murder, mystery, quest, wizardry
Review 137: The Last Watch
The Last Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko This review is acceptable to the forces of Light. – The Night Watch This review is acceptable to the forces of Darkness. – The Day Watch When I finished The Twilight Watch a couple … Continue reading
Filed under afterlife, apocalypse, death, detective fiction, fantasy, ghosts, good and evil, morality, Russia, Sergei Lukyanenko, vampires, werewolves, witches, wizardry, world-crossing
Review 133: The Twilight Watch
The Twilight Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko This review is of no relevance to the cause of the Light. – The Night Watch This review is of no relevance to the cause of the Dark. – The Day Watch This world … Continue reading
Filed under apocalypse, detective fiction, disaster, fantasy, morality, mystery, Russia, Sergei Lukyanenko, vampires, war, werewolves, witches, wizardry
Review 104: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Remember – go and take the listener survey! The gods command you!) The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams This is the second of the Dirk Gently books – and the final one – and is no … Continue reading
Filed under detective fiction, Douglas Adams, fantasy, fiction, gods, humor
Review 83: Crooked Little Vein
Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis The world is a weird place. This is as true now as it was fifty years ago, but there’s one big difference between us here in the twenty-first century and our primitive twentieth-century forebears: … Continue reading
Filed under detective fiction, fiction, sexuality, The United States, Warren Ellis
Review 77: Identity Crisis
Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer and Rags Morales There are, traditionally, two modes of thought when it comes to comic book super-heroes. The first is that just as these people are stronger, faster and more powerful than we, so must … Continue reading
Filed under Batman, Brad Meltzer, comic books, DC Comics, death, detective fiction, ethics, identity, morality, murder, Rags Morales, rape, super-heroes, Superman
Review 76: Changes
Changes by Jim Butcher “Hell’s Bells” count: 20 Well, the title promises changes, and that is certainly what you get in this book. And the first of these comes right on page one: Harry Dresden has a daughter. Surprised? Yeah, … Continue reading
Filed under children, detective fiction, Dresden Files, fantasy, Jim Butcher, vampires, war, wizardry
Review 72: Turn Coat
Turn Coat by Jim Butcher “Hell’s Bells” count: 25 One of the problems involved in writing an ongoing series (or so I imagine) is the problem of escalation. The new stories have to be better than the old ones, or … Continue reading
Filed under detective fiction, Dresden Files, fantasy, Jim Butcher, wizardry
Review 68: Small Favor
Small Favor by Jim Butcher “Hell’s Bells” count: 21 This is the tenth book in the series, and if Butcher’s own plan can be trusted, it marks about the halfway point for the series as a whole. Having made it … Continue reading
Filed under detective fiction, Dresden Files, fantasy, Jim Butcher, wizardry
