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Meagre Offerings...? Advantages: Goes along at a cracking pace with excellent side characters Disadvantages: Involnurability and losing it's detective inclination Being the seventh in a series, I firstly must strongly suggest that the previous volumes are read prior to this one, as it will give you more depth to the characters. As many serialisations do, there are sections in the book that refresh the memory, but these are often brief, and not as fullling! Anita Blakes world is filled with all the things that go bump in the night, vampires, zombie, werewolves, wererats and so on. From what I took from the ... ...roots, supporting the RIP Team to discover the source of the fires that seem to be directed towards vampire owned businesses, and I have to admit, the fact that Anita now fraternises with the beasts more than the humans did make for an interesting take, particularly in how the human RIP Team now deals with her. However, it ended up being more about Anita's relationship with her current and past boyfriend, and how Anita is increasingly becoming superwoman. ... Sa1sysoo 29.03.2007 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Burnt Offerings - Laurell K. Hamilton	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...
Black Man - A real page turner Advantages: GREAT READ Disadvantages: NOTHING Black Man. = This book has a feel of Bladerunner meets Jason Bourne meets Hitman. Carl Marsalis was created. Carl is a variant Thirteen. He was made to genetically be the best, the most perfect super soldier there had ever been. But something has gone wrong after his last mission Carl has lost his willingness to kill. His superiors refuse to believe and instead use him as a Hitman for the UN. However this failure to kill gets him into trouble ... ...Carl thinks that now it must truly all be over with but then another Thirteen has just returned from Mars and is running around killing people. It is also killing off other Thirteens. Carl must find and kill it or wait for it to come for him. But as usual not everything is as it seems and soon there are twists and turns along the way and the conclusion is a superb ending to the book. The writing is crisp and fresh. Whilst the book races along and ... MaldivesHoliday 16.02.2009 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Black Man (Gollancz) - Richard Morgan	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...
Battleaxe, Enchanter, Starman Advantages: Great pace and enthralling characters Disadvantages: Far too short. When a series of books have been described as "the best Australian fantasy novel" a reviewer has ever experienced there has to be a hint of "SO!" when reading. However the description would work easily as well if you drop the Australian. This series is by far one of the best Fantasy series I've ever read. The storyline concerns Axis who is the leader of the Axe-Wielders , the military arm of the religious faction known as the Seneschal. The Seneschal ... ...trees are evil and thus the land of Tencendor has been swept clean of all but a handful of forests. As the storyline progresses we are introduced to the other races of Tencendor, the Avar and the Icarii who the Seneschal refer to as the Forbidden. Once the three races lived in peace now they are mortal enemies. Slowly Axis begins to see that things are not quite the way that he has been brought up to believe. Thus begins his exploration of his own ... fireflash69 14.02.2001 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Battleaxe - The Axis Trilogy - Book One - Sara Douglass	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...
You can take the girl out of the city - Advantages: Some truly disturbing stuff in this one - as usual juxtaposed with scenes both refreshing and vibrant. The back-story is easier to digest for those picking this up before the others too... Disadvantages: If you've become used to the slick city beat normally walked by Ms. Blake and friends, the open air might spin your head a bit. Shouldn't think it will be a big adjustment though. You can take the girl out of the city... 'Bloody Bones' is the fifth of Laurell K. Hamilton's novels dealing with the life and times of Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter. Really, this review is part of a serial review of the series. While I won't be giving away any spoilers about this novel below, it's inevitable that I reveal some important information from the previous books - often stuff that served as the dramatic conclusions/revelations to those volumes. You have been warned… You thought ... ...taken a bizarre turn with her love life. As 'Bloody Bones' opens, she is dating both Jean-Claude, the Master vampire of the city of St. Louis, and Richard Zeeman, second-in-line to rule the local werewolf pack. At some point she's going to have to make a choice, and the balance is tilting towards the werewolf. But if she chooses Richard, will Jean-Claude kill him? Sounds like a good time to get out of the city, and 'Bloody Bones' gives her a chance ... RichardW 03.01.2001 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Bloody Bones - Laurell K. Hamilton	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...
Short stories Advantages: Lots of great stories Disadvantages: Some not so great ones This is collection of short stories by William Gibson. Most of these stories are along the same vein as the necromancer series, with 'Burning Chrome' being very reminiscent of 'Count Zero' (Burning Chrome was published in Omni 1982) and 'Johnny Mnemonic' not only getting a mention in 'Mona Lisa Over Drive', but also it an extended version was released as a separate book. Some of the stories are in a completely new directions, for example 'The Belonging ... ...and would probably come under the heading on contemporary fantasy. Two of the other stories were also written with other authors. "Dogfight" (with Michael Swanwick) originally published in Omni 1985 "Red Star, Winter Orbit" (with Bruce Stirling) originally published in Omni; also in Mirrorshades This is great collection of short stories that I recommend that every one reads. ... BenC 19.07.2000 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Burning Chrome - William Gibson	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...