Archive for the ‘novels’ Category

May 15, 2009 1

Tell no tales– a review of Greg Rucka’s Walking Dead

By Scott Cederlund in Review, novels

Atticus Kodiak isn’t the man he was supposed to be.  Maybe Atticus wasn’t supposed to be anything great, stuck in life as a glorified body guard with a career and friends and maybe even a family.  In GregRucka’s first three Atticus novels ( Keeper, Finder and Smoker,) Atticus was a bit more than an average [...]

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September 1, 2007 0

Quick thoughts– Greg Rucka’s Patriot Act

By Scott Cederlund in novels

I’ll probably have a more formal review of it sometime later this weekend but I finished Greg Rucka’s latest novel early (really early) this morning. The first thought that hit me was, “when did Atticus Kodiak become Jason Bourne?”

August 5, 2007 0

Harry Potter and the review proof book

By Scott Cederlund in Review, novels

**WARNING– POTENTIAL SPOILERS FROM HERE ON OUT** After seven books and (so far) five movies, I’m glad to be done with Ron, Hermione and most specifically Harry Potter. For seven books, J.K. Rowlings has enthralled and frustrated me with her stories about these three wizards-to-be and their most vexing adversary, Lord Voldemort. I’ve just spent [...]

July 22, 2007 0

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows– The first hundred pages

By Scott Cederlund in novels

I know that people are already posting full reviews of the book but I’m not nearly that fast of a reader. So far, I like it. This is how the sixth book should have begun with everyone knowingly in mortal danger. More happens in these opening pages than in the first six books’ first hundred [...]