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Bob @ Beauty in Ruins
PLEASE NOTE: I'm rarely active here anymore, but please feel free to follow me on Goodreads, where I post regularly.
These are the chronicles of a book addict, a photo junkie, and an aspiring author, rewriting the very fabric of reality one page (and one snapshot) at a time. From the strange to the unusual; the abandoned to the abnormal; the haunted to the historic; the supernatural to the surreal; the forests of dark fantasy, the cemeteries of gothic horror, and the post-apocalyptic ruins of science fiction are the landscapes of my imagination.
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Deathstalker Rebellion: Being the Second Part of the Life and Times of Owen Deathstalker
Progress:
298/508 pages
Burning Paradise
I was excited about this, and really wanted to like it, but it just fell flat for me. The characters were bland and simplistic, almost like they sidestepped not from another time/universe, but from another genre altogether. Even though it's been done before, the whole question of whether aliens are interfering to save us or doom us is one I usually enjoy, but I didn't feel this added anything new or unique to the theme. As for the writing itself, it was average - not nearly as smart or as polished as I've found his previous work to be - and the plotting was straightforward to the point of being predictable.Ultimately, I just couldn't maintain enough interest to keep reading.