Cav's Place

Once you get past the present-time part, whose sole purpose seems to be to spoil the ending, it becomes increasingly obvious that there may be a good story in here, albeit a bitterly sad one. Actually, make that a great story; a thrilling, breathtaking story, which may well exist within an interesting world and have […]

With a good director and a decent budget, 24 Bones would make a pretty cool action movie. As a book, however, it has some issues, one being that the writing can at times be somewhat difficult to follow and at others a bit grating. And then there’s the fact that, in spite of the large […]

Stunning, but not in a good way, reading Oryx and Crake is like reading the damaged mind of a train wreck’s nevertheless doomed survivor as it replays the details while struggling to cope with his current impossible situation. It’s at times raw, often brutal, and depressing and frightening throughout. It should come with trigger warnings […]

What must be stated clearly from the beginning is that, after many years and wrong turns, Anne Rice is back, and so is Lestat. Of course, those who expect the exact same Lestat they initially grew to know, from The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned, may be disappointed, but in the end […]

Been several years since I last read a book translated in Romanian and several more since the last such translation that wasn’t nonfiction, plus that I was barely a teen, or perhaps even yet to cross that threshold, when I read the rest of the series and some other related works, back in the ’90s, […]