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Daily Archive July 25th, 2004

Quick Review: The Crystal Gryphon

First book I read by Andre Norton was “The Hands of Lyr” and this is certainly an improvement over it, but still, when I see fantasy I expect a high fantasy epic, as in a whole array of creatures (if they’re the familiar elf, orc, dwarf, halfling, dragon, unicorn, centaur, etc. lot all the better, […]

Quick Review: Vittorio, the Vampire

Great for the first eight chapters… Odd after that. Anne Rice is amazing when she writes about vampires, but when she adds religious characters into the mix, everything gets blurry. “Memnoch the Devil” was superb, as both style of writing and ideas, but she should have left it there. To add something else, Lestat is […]