don't be dull, be fannish

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Review: What a great book. It had me on the edge of my seat more than once. Fast paced action, original plot and interesting characters, spells and werewolves, shoot-outs and strange supernatural forms... Though I did feel like I was missing a prequel to this story, there was much hinted at and never explained. Hopefully, Connolly will rectify that in the next book in his series. I'll be definitely getting buying it!

I have so much love for this manga, insane love! For real. I know that the whole card catching part is quite silly but the awesome characters make up for it. And all the slash vibes too, of course. Toya loves Yukito, Yukito loves Toya, Tomoyo loves Sakura... It's so cute! And the way Shaolan blushes every time Yukito smiles at him! And then there's the quite touching relationship that Toya and Sakura have, how they bicker and insult each other, but God forbid someone tries to hurt the one or the other! And the silly, silly banter between Sakura's dad and Tomoyo's mom! Ha!

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Review: 2nd in the Remy Chandler series. Better than the first and as before, very Supernatural like in its take on angels. In this book, Remy has to stop the Nomads from releasing Lucifer. And as is usual in Sniegoski's books, the creatures of both Heaven and Hell turn out to be pretty much selfish bastards. Though I admit that sometimes it was hard for me to understand Remy's reasoning: like, he's blaming everything that happened - the war in Heaven, the rift between the fallen angels who stood with Lucifer and the host of Heaven - on Lucifer alone despite doubting God's mercy and the rightfulness of the actions of the Heaven's host himself. So yeah, in the end, reading the book you really do feel like Dean Winchester who told both the demons and the angels to go and screw themselves because neither party was righteous in its doings and goals. I think that people who like the 4th and 5th season of Supernatural would like this series.

A series of short stories depicting the various adventures of Antoine and Jules in old France. Some are funny, some are touching, there are misunderstandings, hurt and comfort parts, some non-consensual sex and it's also rather graphic so it's not a manga for kids. The last part is a stand-alone story about Laurent and Leon and there's no connection between it and the rest of the Romance plot.

What I really love about Moka Azumi's work is that the men really look like men. Even Antoine who is just too beautiful for words still looks like a man. Gorgeous man but still a man. It's rather unusual in the Japanese manga.

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Review: An interesting manga with great potential for future development. This volume consists of stand-alone stories that set the "mood" of the series. The last story tells the reader how Asagi and Amano met. Also, the vibes between those two are rather yaoi-sh - when Amano met Asagi, Asagi was dressed like a girl and Amano fell for him and hard. So far, it looks like he still has it bad for his boss and Asagi teases him mercilessly about that. This manga is funny but also very creepy and there are a lot of nude scenes so it's definitely not for kids!

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Review: This book feels like a one big filler, I don't even know why. It just plods along, there's no big climax or anything. It follows three story lines: Drizzt, Catti-brie, Regis and Bruenor's, then Wulfgar's and Entreri's. It's a good book but, I don't know, the spark's missing, I guess.

Also, what really irked me was how Drizzt and Catti-brie, mostly it was those two, were all about how they wanted to give Wulfgar time and space to get better - and at the same time they kept nagging and nagging, wanting him to be the same Wulfgar he had been before the yochlol took him, as if they knew better what he needed/wanted. And when it didn't go well, it was hard for them to ~forgive~ Wulfgar his behavior. I was all WHAT? Wulfgar's the victim here, it should be about what ~he~ needs, not what ~you~ need. And the last straw? When Catti-brie consented to sleep with Wulfgar to ~help~ him - right, to sleep with someone out of pity is so good and pristine!

Yes, I'm tired of Drizzt and Catti-brie being the Marty-Sue and Mary-Sue of these books. They can't do any wrong, they are wise and serene and so zen! Right. You know, there's being the "good guy" and then there's "Marty/Mary-sue-ism", and this smacks of the latter.

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Review: As much as I like Jaz, Vayl, Cassandra, Cole and Bergman (hello, Rodney McKay!) this story really didn't hold my interest. Yes, the writing was funny and Jaz's quips hilarious, the story nevertheless dragged in places. Also, the whole body-armor thingy that Lung stole, well, it seemed a bit over the top. I don't know, I just didn't find it all that interesting. The saving grace of this book are the lovable characters, that's for sure. They behave like one big family, though the jealousy between Vayl and Cole is getting quite annoying fast.

To sum it up, a good book but nothing special.

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Review: Cute little story. Though I couldn't help noticing that it must've been heavily influenced by CWRPS J2 - it might have even started as a fanfic. Oh, I'm not complaining, definitely not. But all the time I expected to see Jared and Jensen, not David and Jason :P

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Review: A cute gay historical romance. That's basically it. Leander is a lovable geek and Julien is quite an interesting character himself. I liked all their crazy friends, too, especially Penelope! This is no "deep" literature, just a fun little romance, like Amanda Quick's historical romances just gay. I liked it!

Wow, we really did leave the fluff behind. That was creepy and cruel and dark and I'm still stunned. Clamp really knows how to shock. I mean, I hoped that this volume would delve into Fye's past but I didn't expect ~that~! Now I'm curious how the others will react to what Fye did. And how will Fye react. I'm so glad that I bought the next volume already!

Oh, and I feel the insane need to slash Geo and Eagle. I don't even know from which Clamp manga they are but they were so immensely slashable in this book! Maybe I'll look them up and buy their "original" manga if they are as slashable there as they were in here.