media roundup
Apr. 21st, 2010 09:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynI'm watching the movie Breakfast With Scot. (via Netflix streaming.)
I discovered that Hulu has the first three seasons of Doc Martin so I don't have to fight with my cable box refusing to change to PBS. Blood Ties is available online, which I found via Hulu redirecting me somewhere else.
I finished 3 books:
a re-read of Dark Lies by Vivi Anna.
The Trickster by Kathleen Nance
Wolf In Night by Tara K. Harper
I still think Vivi Anna is ill-served by being published in a pulp romance. It could have been much more than that.
The Trickster is the first in the Olympians series and I'm a little meh. about it so far. I like the premise that Zeus decides to make things up to the long-lost descendants of his paramours whose lineages were cursed. Admittedly this had a rather grating heroine. It's still set in Louisiana, but despite being pre-Katrina it's really mystifying why anyone on Earth would live there purposefully. I ordered the rest of the series, so I obviously liked it well enough.
I've read all of the Wolfwalker series by Harper. Either there was a long gap or I missed this one. It's okay. But the main character is like superpowered. The alien world they live on is really strange but has an overlay of business-as-usual politics like you'd see on any western. This one doesn't have a lot of funny surreal disjointed crap with the alien birdpeople that made one of the Dione (previous main character) books seem like a drug trip combined with smoke inhalation. Well, the copyright date says 2005, and the first book's copyright date says 1990, so 7 books in 15 years isn't horrible, but it sure feels like the gap was much longer than that. Since nothing was really resolved, I'm not sure anyone should bother reading these. She'll probably die with the series unfinished like Robert Jordan did.
I discovered that Hulu has the first three seasons of Doc Martin so I don't have to fight with my cable box refusing to change to PBS. Blood Ties is available online, which I found via Hulu redirecting me somewhere else.
I finished 3 books:
a re-read of Dark Lies by Vivi Anna.
The Trickster by Kathleen Nance
Wolf In Night by Tara K. Harper
I still think Vivi Anna is ill-served by being published in a pulp romance. It could have been much more than that.
The Trickster is the first in the Olympians series and I'm a little meh. about it so far. I like the premise that Zeus decides to make things up to the long-lost descendants of his paramours whose lineages were cursed. Admittedly this had a rather grating heroine. It's still set in Louisiana, but despite being pre-Katrina it's really mystifying why anyone on Earth would live there purposefully. I ordered the rest of the series, so I obviously liked it well enough.
I've read all of the Wolfwalker series by Harper. Either there was a long gap or I missed this one. It's okay. But the main character is like superpowered. The alien world they live on is really strange but has an overlay of business-as-usual politics like you'd see on any western. This one doesn't have a lot of funny surreal disjointed crap with the alien birdpeople that made one of the Dione (previous main character) books seem like a drug trip combined with smoke inhalation. Well, the copyright date says 2005, and the first book's copyright date says 1990, so 7 books in 15 years isn't horrible, but it sure feels like the gap was much longer than that. Since nothing was really resolved, I'm not sure anyone should bother reading these. She'll probably die with the series unfinished like Robert Jordan did.
