misc reviews
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psocopteraThe Hobbit movie part 1 - some good bits, but a somewhat unsatisfactory ratio of good bits to unnecessary bits. More singing, less battle pls.
Hereville comic volumes 1 and 2 - I'd read the original story on the web, but the print volume 1 has some significant changes (for the better), and volume 2 was all new to me. Fun, recommended.
Unveiled, Unclaimed, and Unraveled, three romance novels by Courtney Milan - very good! Not so great that non-romance readers should read them, but if you like Mary Balogh, you'll like these. I found the beginning of Unveiled pretty off-putting but it got better further on, with the revelation of the hero's dyslexia (of course he has no idea that's why he's illiterate, but it's obvious enough to us - that's the gimmick of the series, I guess, "dudes with modern issues in early Victorian times". The second guy is a feminist (also a virgin... I love romance novels where the guy is the virgin), the third one has PTSD (for a bit there I was *really hoping* he was going to turn out to be bi, but alas.))
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel - recommended somewhere as a Leviathan readalike, which is fair enough. Oppel's writing doesn't quite have the vividness of Westerfeld's, nor did I fall in love with the characters, but it's reasonable-quality airship porn and a good adventure story. Also, hilariously, I *swear* I had never read this book when I wrote my one-shot three years ago with the airship pirates and the secret volcanic island base with the helium mines, I guess it's just a really good set of ideas... (Confidential to my former players: no, you never made it to the helium mines, I believe you got the airship turned around before you ever got to the island, plus we ran out of time.)
Hereville comic volumes 1 and 2 - I'd read the original story on the web, but the print volume 1 has some significant changes (for the better), and volume 2 was all new to me. Fun, recommended.
Unveiled, Unclaimed, and Unraveled, three romance novels by Courtney Milan - very good! Not so great that non-romance readers should read them, but if you like Mary Balogh, you'll like these. I found the beginning of Unveiled pretty off-putting but it got better further on, with the revelation of the hero's dyslexia (of course he has no idea that's why he's illiterate, but it's obvious enough to us - that's the gimmick of the series, I guess, "dudes with modern issues in early Victorian times". The second guy is a feminist (also a virgin... I love romance novels where the guy is the virgin), the third one has PTSD (for a bit there I was *really hoping* he was going to turn out to be bi, but alas.))
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel - recommended somewhere as a Leviathan readalike, which is fair enough. Oppel's writing doesn't quite have the vividness of Westerfeld's, nor did I fall in love with the characters, but it's reasonable-quality airship porn and a good adventure story. Also, hilariously, I *swear* I had never read this book when I wrote my one-shot three years ago with the airship pirates and the secret volcanic island base with the helium mines, I guess it's just a really good set of ideas... (Confidential to my former players: no, you never made it to the helium mines, I believe you got the airship turned around before you ever got to the island, plus we ran out of time.)
