For those who haven't been around for this in the past, a monthly update of what books I read in the past month. Not counting comics, magazines, game books or similar...
Jan 2nd: Scott Lynch -
Red Seas Under Red Skies: Lynch's second book of the Gentleman Rogues. With the survivors from the first book setting up a massive con on a crime lord and casino owner. And then getting drafted into a political pissing contest with the local Admiral and his noble rivals. Which forces them to become pirates or die from a slow-acting poison. They don't take this well...
Jan 4th: A. Lee Martinez -
A Nameless Witch: The Nameless Witch and her companions undergo a quest to stop a mad illusionist from destroying the world. All the time struggling with her cannibalistic urges and love for her paladin ally...
Jan 5th: Tom Holt -
Flying Dutch: The true story of the flying Dutchman with the real reason the immortal crew are forced to remain at sea. Also how that holds the key to the collapse of every financial institution on the planet...
Jan 7th: Holt -
Faust Among Equals: Faust escapes from Hell after it undergoes a management shake-up. So they send the World's Nastiest and Most Effective Bounty Hunter after him. Didn't like this one as much. Too many instances where characters abilities and persona were hamstrung or inflated depending on the needs of the plot...
Jan 10th: Stephen Ambrose -
Undaunted Courage: A biography of Merriweather Lewis of the Lewis & Clark expedition. Dry. Very dry. Also at times I felt the writer just wanted to get down on his knees and blow Thomas Jefferson...
Jan 11th: Terry Pratchett -
Mort: The first of the Death's Family books, where Death of Discworld takes on an apprentice and then attempts to take a vacation. Things don't work out that well after that. Or they do. Its probably down to quantum...
Jan 12th: Elizabeth Danforth/Michael Stackpole (ed) -
Mages' Blood & Old Bones: An anthology of short stories based around the Tunnels & Trolls rpg system...
Jan 15th: Charlaine Harris -
Definitely Dead: Telepathic barmaid Sookie Stackhouse goes to clear up her cousin's estate and gets drawn into a bloody vampire political wedding and targeted by unknown weres. Plus she attempts to begin dating Quinn the Weretiger...
Jan 16th: P.N. Elrod (ed) -
My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon: I already reviewed this one
here...
Harris -
All Together Dead: Sookie goes to the National Vampire Convention with the leadership of LA's vampires, still reeling from the Katrina ...
Jan 20th: Martin Millar -
The Good Fairies of New York: Feuding artists, drunken faeries, homeless women who think they're ancient Greek generals, Industrial and Worker's revolutions among the Wee Folk and the ghost of a New York Doll searching for his guitar. Oh and true love...
Jan 23rd: Emma Bull -
The War for the Oaks: Urban Fantasy about the regular war between the Seelie and Unseelie courts. With rock and roll singer Eddi McCandry caught in the middle. Plus she just dumped her boyfriend and last band...
Jan 26th: Stackpole -
X-Wing: Rogue Squadron: Star Wars: Expanded Universe book. Wedge Antilles, rebuilds the famous Rebel squadron to work towards the capture of Coruscant. And to further move the Rebel Alliance towards becoming the New Rebublic...
Jan 27th: Stackpole -
X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble: Rogue Squadron is sent to infiltrate Coruscant alongside Rebel intelligence agents and the remnants of the Black Sun criminal organization...
Jan 29th: George R.R. Martin (ed) -
Inside Straight: A new start for the Wild Cards series. The Nur, now Caliph over much of the Middle East is assassinated by an unknown Ace who leaves the blame on the defunct Twisted Fist terrorist group. Leading to reprisals against the followers of the Reborn Egyptian pantheon. At the same time the Ace reality show "American Hero" begins filming with Peregrine as host. And her de-powered son John Fortune working as a production assistant. Or he might not be as de-powered as previously thought...
Stackpole -
X-Wing: Krytos Trap: The New Republic has taken Coruscant, but the head of Imperial Intelligence has left it poisoned with a plague that targets several alien species, requiring massive amounts of bacta to combat. And Corran Horn, believed dead, is instead her prisoner...
Jan 30th: Stackpole -
X-Wing: The Bacta War: After Isard escapes in a Super Star Destroyer to take over the world and corporate family that produces bacta, the Rogues go after her. Making this more difficult is the fact that for political reasons they have to do it after resigning en masse from the Alliance military...
Jan 31st: Robert Parker -
Widow's Walk: Spenser is hired to try and prove the innocence of a trophy wife whose husband is found shot and killed in bed. Her main defense? She just seems too damn dumb to possibly have committed the crime...
Total Books: 18
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