Books #125 & #126
Nov. 24th, 2010 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katikat#125 was Matsuri Akino's manga "Pet Shop of Horrors #5" and in the review, I said: "I'm losing interest in this manga. 5 volumes in and it's still the same old, same old spiel, short stories in which Count D and Leon have only short stints and it's all about the characters who come to buy an animal in Count D's shop. And I should care about them why? It's boring :("
#126 was John Meaney's "Bone Song" (Tristopolis #1), a translation and a re-read for me from 2009, and in the review I had said, back then: "Wow. Okay, the beginning was a bit slow and it took me a while to get into the book - but then I couldn't put it down. The world that John Meaney built is stunning, a world where everything runs on the power of the dead, mostly their bones. It's scary and creepy and it takes time to get used to it, to be perfectly honest. The setting aside, this is basically a mystery book. I fell in love with it once Donal joined Laura's team. I'm now really curious how the team members will react to what happened in the last chapter, at the very end of the book. That means I will be reading the next one in the series for sure! The most captivating quote: Do you hear the bones?"
18 books to go in the "144 in 2010 challenge"!
#126 was John Meaney's "Bone Song" (Tristopolis #1), a translation and a re-read for me from 2009, and in the review I had said, back then: "Wow. Okay, the beginning was a bit slow and it took me a while to get into the book - but then I couldn't put it down. The world that John Meaney built is stunning, a world where everything runs on the power of the dead, mostly their bones. It's scary and creepy and it takes time to get used to it, to be perfectly honest. The setting aside, this is basically a mystery book. I fell in love with it once Donal joined Laura's team. I'm now really curious how the team members will react to what happened in the last chapter, at the very end of the book. That means I will be reading the next one in the series for sure! The most captivating quote: Do you hear the bones?"
18 books to go in the "144 in 2010 challenge"!
