Entries from Jun 2009
City of Bones, the first volume of Clare’s young-adult supernatural series Mortal Instruments melds tropes and themes from sources such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Wars, Meyer’s Twilight books and Rowling’s Harry Potter in a way that sometimes felt a little calculated, but still kept me flipping pages.
Three little gripes:
The author’s name is Cassandra [...]
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Tags: c-author · c-title · fantasy · young adult
I loved Stewart’s Perfect Circle so much that I bought several more of his novels, and then didn’t read any of them for a while for fear they wouldn’t live up to the expectations Perfect Circle had set.
I’m glad I waited to read Resurrection Man, partly because it isn’t quite as good (it’s one of [...]
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Tags: fantasy · r-title · s-author
