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Review 72: Turn Coat
Turn Coat by Jim Butcher “Hell’s Bells” count: 25 One of the problems involved in writing an ongoing series (or so I imagine) is the problem of escalation. The new stories have to be better than the...
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Review 76: Changes
Changes by Jim Butcher “Hell’s Bells” count: 20 Well, the title promises changes, and that is certainly what you get in this book. And the first of these comes right on page one: Harry Dresden has a...
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Review 77: Identity Crisis
Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer and Rags Morales There are, traditionally, two modes of thought when it comes to comic book super-heroes. The first is that just as these people are stronger, faster and...
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Review 83: Crooked Little Vein
Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis The world is a weird place. This is as true now as it was fifty years ago, but there’s one big difference between us here in the twenty-first century and our...
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Review 104: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Remember – go and take the listener survey! The gods command you!) The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams This is the second of the Dirk Gently books – and the final one – and is no …...
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Review 133: The Twilight Watch
The Twilight Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko This review is of no relevance to the cause of the Light. – The Night Watch This review is of no relevance to the cause of the Dark. – The Day Watch This world …...
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Review 136: Side Jobs
Side Jobs by Jim Butcher “Hell’s Bells” count: 14 There’s a reason that clichés become clichés. That’s because, no matter how much we may hate them, they concisely describe some feature of human...
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Review 137: The Last Watch
The Last Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko This review is acceptable to the forces of Light. – The Night Watch This review is acceptable to the forces of Darkness. – The Day Watch When I finished The Twilight...
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Review 151: Ghost Story
Ghost Story by Jim Butcher Hell’s Bells count: 27 In the acknowledgment section of the book, where Butcher very kindly thanks all the people who helped it come into existence, he clarifies something...
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Review 189: Men at Arms
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett When last we left our intrepid Ankh-Morpork Night Watch, things were looking up. This is a nice change from the gutter’s-eye-view we had at the beginning of Guards!...
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