Jon

I don't write much negative about books here anymore, following a certain incident.

But sometimes I just can't help myself.

I'm glad I'm nearly done reading Kim Harrison's For a Few Demons More. ironheadjane bought it for me to read while I was sick this weekend, and I must say that I hadn't imagined bisexual polyamorous vampires could be so excruciatingly dull.

In truth, I'm much more bothered by the lack of imagination in the worldbuilding. Since I haven't read the earlier books in the series, I 'm not sure which parts of it are radically inconsistent with the premise, but I've identified ways that, no matter when the tomato virus occurred or what year it is in the story, things should darned well have been different.

I was also amused by the blurb from the New York Times atop the back cover, which described something as "A Smoldering Combination of Alice Waters and Ozzy Osbourne." I thought, "Alice Waters the chef? Huh? Well, there must be another Alice Waters, a writer, who I don't know about." Nope, the New York Times was talking about that Alice Waters, and it wasn't too complimentary, I don't think. (Also, the burning bunnies annoy me.)