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mizkit: Augh! AUGH! AUGH! At the ending, I mean! I heet you! I heet you weeth many peellows! *paf* *paf* *paf*
Ahem. And now that that's out of the way, here are remarks on the third installment of the Walker Papers for the rest of you. ;)
I have of course expressed my fondness for this series in past posts and am happy to say that this one was a nice addition to the ongoing storyline. This story's all about our plucky car-loving heroine Joanne Walker finally getting her metaphysical feet under her in more ways than one, complete with some sardonic self-awareness about how she's even tired of her own whining about having to suck it up and deal with the supernatural. After the first two "ZOMG what am I doing?!" sorts of stories, it's good to see her growing in that direction.
And we're thrown a few interesting wrinkles in the romance department for Jo as well. A new guy shows up right out of the gate, along with the now-recurring half-serious, half-tease about whether Jo is actually involved with her septugenarian friend Gary--and Jo's growing torch for her boss, Captain Morrison. There's definitely some satisfying mileage in that last direction, too.
The thing Jo's up against this time around is a refreshingly unusual thing for fantasy novels, and so is how Jo handles said challenge--i.e., she does it in such a way that she really does prove she's getting her shit together. All in all a quite entertaining read--I zipped through it across the course of today, reading on the bus from home to work, work to chiro, and chiro to home again. Four stars.
mizkit: Augh! AUGH! AUGH! At the ending, I mean! I heet you! I heet you weeth many peellows! *paf* *paf* *paf*Ahem. And now that that's out of the way, here are remarks on the third installment of the Walker Papers for the rest of you. ;)
I have of course expressed my fondness for this series in past posts and am happy to say that this one was a nice addition to the ongoing storyline. This story's all about our plucky car-loving heroine Joanne Walker finally getting her metaphysical feet under her in more ways than one, complete with some sardonic self-awareness about how she's even tired of her own whining about having to suck it up and deal with the supernatural. After the first two "ZOMG what am I doing?!" sorts of stories, it's good to see her growing in that direction.
And we're thrown a few interesting wrinkles in the romance department for Jo as well. A new guy shows up right out of the gate, along with the now-recurring half-serious, half-tease about whether Jo is actually involved with her septugenarian friend Gary--and Jo's growing torch for her boss, Captain Morrison. There's definitely some satisfying mileage in that last direction, too.
The thing Jo's up against this time around is a refreshingly unusual thing for fantasy novels, and so is how Jo handles said challenge--i.e., she does it in such a way that she really does prove she's getting her shit together. All in all a quite entertaining read--I zipped through it across the course of today, reading on the bus from home to work, work to chiro, and chiro to home again. Four stars.