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Besides trying not to melt in the heat (over 30°C is way too much in my opinion), I've thrown myself into the world of working people *feels so proud*
I finished reading Tom Lloyd's "The Stormcaller" book. It's a really good one. Not the best, but a good one. I wouldn't give it 5 stars though. The story itself is rather enjoyable but it feels, I don't know... unfinished. I know that it's just the first book in a series that should be, according to the publisher's notice, really long but it still feels like the editors took their cutting job way too seriously. There are way too many characters whose background is not explained and from time to time you have to poke around in your memory to remember why this person is there and who it is actually. Some of the events are just stated - like the demise of one of the main characters - without fleshing it out even though it's a major turning point for the main hero. And sometimes, you just feel that you don't know what's going on at all... But maybe it was just me, reading it all at once and in this heat so my brain wasn't catching up. On the other hand, the main characters are amazingly likable. Isak, Vesna, Bahl and especially Minh... I will have to sum up the pluses and minuses equally for my publisher tomorrow...
And at the moment, I'm working on the translation of PN Elrod's "Vampire Files", the first three novels in the "Jack Fleming, Vampire PI" series. The book is fantastic. If you like mysteries, vampires and Chicago in the thirties, then this book is for you. I loved it so much that I bought my own copy from Amazon.
What drew me most to these novels was the amazing friendship between Jack Fleming, the vampire newbie, and Charles Escott, the incredibly resourceful Englishman. After Jack gets himself killed and turns into a vampire, he decides to solve his own murder because he doesn't actually remember what happened in the last three days before he was tortured, shot to death and drowned. At the same time he is trying to find Maureen, the woman who turned him into a vampire. It's just a coincidence that Escott stumbles over him in Chicago's railway station. The Englishman, suffering from a deadly curiosity, breaks into Jack's room and steals the bags with earth that every vampire needs... to make friends with him! And that's how their friendship begins...
But I have to find the Czech edition of Othello because there are some quotes there in this book! Wah! *izdead*
I finished reading Tom Lloyd's "The Stormcaller" book. It's a really good one. Not the best, but a good one. I wouldn't give it 5 stars though. The story itself is rather enjoyable but it feels, I don't know... unfinished. I know that it's just the first book in a series that should be, according to the publisher's notice, really long but it still feels like the editors took their cutting job way too seriously. There are way too many characters whose background is not explained and from time to time you have to poke around in your memory to remember why this person is there and who it is actually. Some of the events are just stated - like the demise of one of the main characters - without fleshing it out even though it's a major turning point for the main hero. And sometimes, you just feel that you don't know what's going on at all... But maybe it was just me, reading it all at once and in this heat so my brain wasn't catching up. On the other hand, the main characters are amazingly likable. Isak, Vesna, Bahl and especially Minh... I will have to sum up the pluses and minuses equally for my publisher tomorrow...
And at the moment, I'm working on the translation of PN Elrod's "Vampire Files", the first three novels in the "Jack Fleming, Vampire PI" series. The book is fantastic. If you like mysteries, vampires and Chicago in the thirties, then this book is for you. I loved it so much that I bought my own copy from Amazon.
What drew me most to these novels was the amazing friendship between Jack Fleming, the vampire newbie, and Charles Escott, the incredibly resourceful Englishman. After Jack gets himself killed and turns into a vampire, he decides to solve his own murder because he doesn't actually remember what happened in the last three days before he was tortured, shot to death and drowned. At the same time he is trying to find Maureen, the woman who turned him into a vampire. It's just a coincidence that Escott stumbles over him in Chicago's railway station. The Englishman, suffering from a deadly curiosity, breaks into Jack's room and steals the bags with earth that every vampire needs... to make friends with him! And that's how their friendship begins...
But I have to find the Czech edition of Othello because there are some quotes there in this book! Wah! *izdead*
