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dsrtao_Hexed_, Kevin Hearne
_Hit List_, Laurell Hamilton
_Deadline_, Mira Grant (the prolific Seanan McGuire)
_Hexed_ is the second book of the Iron Druid series. It is much like other urban fantasy second books, in that the author is clearly chuffed to have a successful first outing, wants to get on with a longer-term plot, and feels a need to make things blow up to indicate how cool this all is. In this book, the gentle humor is only slightly strained, the characters remain basically unchanged, and the explosions are quite dramatic.
_Hit List_ is the twentieth book of the Anita Blake series. Twentieth. This one mostly gets on with the plot and only breaks for long passionate overwrought sex scenes three or four times. None of the sex scenes require multiple chapters! Also, things blow up at the end and it is conceivable that Hamilton could wrap up the whole series next book, if she really wanted to. But what are the odds of that?
_Deadline_ is a pretty good sequel to the amazing _Feed_. Plot happens, danger from zombies is overshadowed by danger from shadowy conspiracies, and lots of stuff blows up, some of it in the plot. Actually, lots of it in the plot, and all of that at the end: this book drives up a steep mountain road in a rickety Jeep full of automatic weapons and stops just when it becomes apparent that the bridge is out and the reader is now at the top of a very, very tall cliff. Better hang on tightly, because the next book won't be out for a whole year.
If you locked Seanan McGuire and Daniel Abraham in a room with coffee, food and computers, do you think they'd run out of electrons before they ran out of stories?
_Hit List_, Laurell Hamilton
_Deadline_, Mira Grant (the prolific Seanan McGuire)
_Hexed_ is the second book of the Iron Druid series. It is much like other urban fantasy second books, in that the author is clearly chuffed to have a successful first outing, wants to get on with a longer-term plot, and feels a need to make things blow up to indicate how cool this all is. In this book, the gentle humor is only slightly strained, the characters remain basically unchanged, and the explosions are quite dramatic.
_Hit List_ is the twentieth book of the Anita Blake series. Twentieth. This one mostly gets on with the plot and only breaks for long passionate overwrought sex scenes three or four times. None of the sex scenes require multiple chapters! Also, things blow up at the end and it is conceivable that Hamilton could wrap up the whole series next book, if she really wanted to. But what are the odds of that?
_Deadline_ is a pretty good sequel to the amazing _Feed_. Plot happens, danger from zombies is overshadowed by danger from shadowy conspiracies, and lots of stuff blows up, some of it in the plot. Actually, lots of it in the plot, and all of that at the end: this book drives up a steep mountain road in a rickety Jeep full of automatic weapons and stops just when it becomes apparent that the bridge is out and the reader is now at the top of a very, very tall cliff. Better hang on tightly, because the next book won't be out for a whole year.
If you locked Seanan McGuire and Daniel Abraham in a room with coffee, food and computers, do you think they'd run out of electrons before they ran out of stories?
