Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

When I was but a wee dragonette, my papa said to me, “don’t play with matches or you’ll get burned,” and I, being the willful dragonette I was, immediately pounced on a book of matches and lit them one by one.  And I was burned.
So when Dan Brown’s prequel to The Da Vinci Code was [...]

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City of Others by Steve Niles, Bernie Wrightson, José Villarrubia

Blud has a problem. Well, Blud has many unresolved issues; one of which is his lack of empathy toward others, which probably stems from the fact that his parents christened him Stosh Bludowski. Of course, “Blud” is somewhat better than having to bear the moniker Chunx, which is the name of the antagonist is this [...]

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Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker

Burn this book.  Please.  And no, I didn’t leave the quotes off by accident, this book was that bad.  I used to read Clive Barker novels long, long ago and finally gave up, because I found his writing style juvenile and insipid.  However, it’s been some time and I thought that maybe, just maybe, Mr. Barker’s [...]

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The Sound of Butterflies by Rachael King

I gave it a really good effort (at least I think I did) and got through three chapters before I gave up on this one.  Amateur naturalist Thomas Edgar leaves his young wife behind while he travels to the Amazon in search of his ‘papilio sophia’, an elusive butterfly.  When Thomas returns, shell-shocked and unable [...]

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Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Let me start out by saying that Margaret Atwood is one of my favorite authors. I really enjoyed The Blind Assassin and Alias Grace, and I would even go so far as to name The Handmaid’s Tale as one of my favorite books. That’s why I’m so disappointed in this one. Set in a post-apocalyptic [...]

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