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dsrtao_So Vile A Sin_, Ben Aaronovitch and Kate Orman
_Circle of Enemies_, Harry Connolly
_Tales of the City_, Armistead Maupin
_A Calculated Magic_, and _A Logical Magician_, Robert Weinberg
_One Salt Sea_, Seanan McGuire
_Sin_: the continuity of fully licensed and authorized Doctor Who media makes Harry Potter fanfic look as well-organized as a Russian May Day parade. If you aren't a fairly ardent Who fan, don't bother trying to make sense. If you are, give up. In that context, this novel is fairly well written and seems to be internally consistent.
_Circle of Enemies_: third book in a series, in which the first book was very good and each subsequent volume has continued an upward trend. Don't start here. Start with _Child of Fire_ -- assuming, that is, you're in the mood for Lovecraftian monsters, violent paranoid magicians, and a protagonist who is desperately trying to do the right thing, as soon as he figures out what it is.
_Tales of the City_: is a soap opera set in 1970s San Francisco, apparently notable for being a sympathetic treatment of sexual minorities as actual human beings. The only real flaw is that every character is related to every other character in a web simultanously more tightly-coupled and secretive than usually happens in real life.
Weinberg wrote two 1960s-style urban fantasy predecessors -- the sort of thing where rational modern people defeat occult horror through solving logic puzzles and researching mythology -- in the middle 1990s. Amusing storylines, but I couldn't help noticing that every female character was initially described in terms of breast size and hair color. Oh, and nymphs turn out to be highly attracted to intellectual chair-sitters.
McGuire continues her series about the faeries of San Francisco with an entry about the proposed war between the land and sea folk. Tragedy intervenes repeatedly. I'm getting tired of the trope where a female protagonist with two potential romantic interests has the monogamy problem solved for her by a death -- not her fault, of course.
_Circle of Enemies_, Harry Connolly
_Tales of the City_, Armistead Maupin
_A Calculated Magic_, and _A Logical Magician_, Robert Weinberg
_One Salt Sea_, Seanan McGuire
_Sin_: the continuity of fully licensed and authorized Doctor Who media makes Harry Potter fanfic look as well-organized as a Russian May Day parade. If you aren't a fairly ardent Who fan, don't bother trying to make sense. If you are, give up. In that context, this novel is fairly well written and seems to be internally consistent.
_Circle of Enemies_: third book in a series, in which the first book was very good and each subsequent volume has continued an upward trend. Don't start here. Start with _Child of Fire_ -- assuming, that is, you're in the mood for Lovecraftian monsters, violent paranoid magicians, and a protagonist who is desperately trying to do the right thing, as soon as he figures out what it is.
_Tales of the City_: is a soap opera set in 1970s San Francisco, apparently notable for being a sympathetic treatment of sexual minorities as actual human beings. The only real flaw is that every character is related to every other character in a web simultanously more tightly-coupled and secretive than usually happens in real life.
Weinberg wrote two 1960s-style urban fantasy predecessors -- the sort of thing where rational modern people defeat occult horror through solving logic puzzles and researching mythology -- in the middle 1990s. Amusing storylines, but I couldn't help noticing that every female character was initially described in terms of breast size and hair color. Oh, and nymphs turn out to be highly attracted to intellectual chair-sitters.
McGuire continues her series about the faeries of San Francisco with an entry about the proposed war between the land and sea folk. Tragedy intervenes repeatedly. I'm getting tired of the trope where a female protagonist with two potential romantic interests has the monogamy problem solved for her by a death -- not her fault, of course.
