Cav's Place

It’s all right overall, but too anchored in reality in all its action and meaning for my liking. I do my best to run away from reality in life; I don’t want to bump into it in books too. Also too “foggy”. When I read, I always try to “make the movie” in my head. […]

Compared to the rest, the story is predictable and lacks that greatness that The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned had, but it does have great moments. The discussions with David and Gretchen and those two “increasing the amount of light in the universe” moments with the candles; for some reason I just […]

Setting fantasy in modern times really seems strange; restrains the writer from a lot of what fantasy should mean, if you ask me. But, even with this problem, I did like it. Well written, nice enough story and quite well built characters. Got to more or less hate Joan, like Miriam, try to understand Gillian […]

Got to it before Andra; apparently she wants to wait until she’ll buy this series before reading them. I don’t know if I was supposed to say this… Compared with The Vampire Lestat or The Queen of the Damned? Poor. Taken by itself? Good enough. The first part is awful, but, as soon as Louis […]

Andra didn’t get to this one before me either, although I didn’t by any means pounce on it as soon as it arrived. Maybe good for a basic background of a game, maybe also good for reading, but… Something seems unbalanced. The first half of the book didn’t seem to be heading anywhere, then everything […]