(an Alex Cross novel)
The cover blurbs touted this as the most emotional Alex Cross book, ever. I disagree, but it was nice, after a bajillion books about him/his career to get the backstory on how he became a widower. I liked the little twist at the very end, but, considering the relationship between Alex & Sampson, it was a little hard to believe.
Nice little book about Superman, a realistic “Smallville” set in 1930s America.
I actually enjoyed the hell out of this (pun intended). The writing was weak, but I liked it anyway 
Alrighty then.
I’d never read any Moore before my book club decided to do this one. Even with my affinity for the weird, a zombie Christmas story is a bit out there. So, the story, I didn’t think much of, though it was vaguely amusing.
The characters, on the other hand, were a scream! That, and even a chapter in I found myself in love with the fact that he didn’t use common language, and he used more esoteric language in a way that was still clear and easy to read.
Will I read more Moore? Definitely, but I think it will need to be a while between volumes…
(An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel)
Novel. They used to be mysteries, too, even as recently as 2000, 2001. Now they’re paranormal sex novels. I like the character, if not the action, so I still read ‘em, but only from the library; they haven’t been good enough to spend MY money on in a while.
I hadn’t read this in years and enjoyed the heck out of introducing my daughter to Narnia and the wonders therein. She’s not quite six, so the illustrated edition really helped since this was her first longer book, one where pages in a row would be without illustrations, so the pictures were a real treat when we got to them.
(A Jesse Stone novel)
This was a little tedious, but the ending did catch me by surprise a bit. It was hard, because I’ve read the latest Sunny Randall in which she and Jesse hook up and this one obviously comes prior to that point.
Aside from that, the thing I noticed the most about this book, sadly, was the sloppy copyediting. A character in chapter 1 changed names in the text, a point was made of another character being flown somewhere & later the same character was said to have taken a boat to her destination – the pilot thing was obviously the correct one for the story since it came up more often, but no one caught these errors, which is a shame since they completely pulled me out of the story.
The stories in this anthology dealt mostly with Davidson’s werewolf creations, which I’d never read before. On balance, they came across pompous, savage, and self-important, Donna Boyd’s are MUCH better, but it was amusing, lighthearted, and, if you like that sort of thing, chock full o’ supernatural sex that left nothing to the imagination.
