Holly Scott & Jaimie Duncan's "Siren Song", #150

[katikat]

Aris Boch is back--and this time he's after Daniel Jackson.

Review: A Stargate SG-1 book. Interesting plot and very "in character," I would say. The interaction between Jack, Sam, Daniel and Teal'c rang true, it really did feel like an episode of the TV series. There were three story lines: Jack, Daniel and Aris', Sam and Teal'c's and then Jacob's. Jack and Daniel's part was the most interesting, though. Overall, a good book. But!

The writing. This would've been a great book if the authors slashed it down and threw away at least 50 pages. The style was way too descriptive in places, I even felt like skipping pages, and overall it seemed very... tedious. For a good portion of the book they just walked and talked and ruminated. I'm all for character building but too much is simply too much.

And with this book, my "150 books in 2009" goal has been achieved! *throws confetti*

Comments

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

Wahoo! Go you!

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *bows* I wanted to finish this particular book because I had it on-hold and I wanted to start the new year with a clean sheet! :)

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

Awesome job!! I wish I'd read a fraction of books this year.

I'm oddly curious. You seem to read all the SGA and SG1 tie in novels which I think mostly are poorly written, yet based on your fanfic recs, you read only slash. Which is cool, that's your thing.

Why not read the good gen fanfic out there that would put those tie-in novels books you pay for to shame?

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Hehe, I work with books so it's kinda part of my job. Which is awesome! \o/

I've read only two SG-1 books and all but two SGA books and mostly, they were really good - well, except for Nightfall and it's better not to talk about that one *shudders*

Actually, I don't read just slash, I have almost a hundred SGA gen recs in my delicious account (http://delicious.com/katikatnik/sga-gen). But I mostly take my recs from fic finding comms and lately, people have been searching for slash more than for gen. And most podfics are also slash.

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

Oh you work with books? Cool! I must admit I've read most of the SGA tie-in novels and loved the first few, but the last three or four have mad me wonder if the authors even watched the show :-P I do look forward to the ones coming out based on summaries.

My question was random curiosity because I read your slash recommendations, but, see your giddiness about the novels and wondered if you read both types.

:D

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Nightfall was awful. Angelus wasn't as bad but not really my cup of tea. And Mirror Mirror before that was a bit confusing. But so far, the only book that I really disliked was Nightfall.

I love tie-ins because they're sanctioned by TPTB so it feels like the show didn't really end. I know that they aren't considered a part of the main canon but it's the only official thing we will get, I guess.

ETA: Oh, I do work with books. I'm a translator. I translate fantasy/urban fantasy books from English into Czech :)