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Almost done. People and personalities cannot be labeled with some grid. Anyways, what exactly is this sacred flute because I’m thinking MUSICAL INSTRUMENT but that can’t be right. Or maybe it is but the point is that it was made a gazillion years ago and contains evidence of written language. Fen is all types of toxic wrapped up in one dude. Turns out he’s also a little pathetic.

Wow, I can’t put this down! Man, a good writer can write a story about anything if they have the skill. Nell is influenced by Margaret Mead so that means….anthropology field work, open sexuality and relationships, and controversial books about a non-Western culture. King is making this work as fiction but it’ll probably be boring and unreadable as non-fiction. An excellent read so far. Fen’s a jerk!

Done. Good ending, but I definitely can’t get down with how absurd everything turned out to be. 2.5 stars rounded up to 3.

The mystery is way too easy to figure out and it was also clumsily revealed. Also, the characters made some extremely bad decisions to the point where I can’t suspend my belief. Like, you mean to tell me she took the bait like that??? This could be a case where readers know more than the characters, but I’m going to be ungenerous and say that Cosby is forcing the writing. Lots of editing mistakes too.

I figured out who’s behind everything yesterday which is why I keep forgetting this is a mystery. I’m just in it for the ride. And it’s a great character piece. Why would a guy like Buddy Lee know a word like copacetic?! Put the thesaurus down Cosby. The co-villains are a just redneck bozos that get their asses handed to them by one man. They are very stupid, which was also a problem in My Darkest Prayer.

The writing’s so good! Cosby uses these crazy similes….probably a nod to Chandler. I remember in My Darkest Prayer he said someone’s hands were so ashy he looked like he just got through eating powdered donuts!!! Oh, Easy Rawlins is straight up mentioned, too. Huge Mosley fan is Cosby. More Ike and Buddy interaction please! I’m almost forgetting this is a mystery….

Ten chapters in and my impression is that this book will make a good movie. A Road to Perdition thingie. And it’s in third person. Yay! Ike and Buddy - sounds like a comedy duo - are teaming up and trying to figure things out. I like Buddy a bit more than Ike. I find Ike too similar to the MC in My Darkest Prayer.

This is going on hold for a bit. I’m behind because of the Olympics (poor Ilia, but Shun medalled!!!! Woohoo!!!” but I’m really not that invested in anything in this book and I’m supposed to be at this point after what went down. I can be reading something else.

Klune is missing the mark big time with this and it concerns me that he wrote this AFTER Cerulean because I have another of his books on my shelf. The banter between Victor, Rambo and Nurse Ratchet is unfunny and cringey. It’s also distracting from everything else. The target audience isn’t 11-year old boys so I don’t know where he’s coming from with all of that.

Man, I don’t know about this. Klune is trying very hard to be charming and endearing, but I’m getting secondhand embarrassment. Robots and penis jokes DO NOT MIX. I’m interested enough in Giovanni and whatever he was running from to keep reading, but I think the “characters” are going to annoy me. My first impression is that this book is gonna be…corny.

Done. In a lot of movie adaptations of Dracula the title character has an obsession with a human woman and I was wondering where that came from since it sure as hell ain’t from the book. Aha! Found it! All those movies are actually using elements from Carmilla. I liked the pacing and the vampire lore at the end. This was better than Dracula as it doesn’t drag and ends right when it should.

I read Dracula for the first time last year and so it’s time for me to read the book that inspired Dracula. There’s a recount of a very creepy encounter the narrator had when she was a child in the first chapter and I’m sold! I think this is going to be one of those books that surprise me.

Welp, the volume ends with yet another cliffhanger. I feel as if this series relies too heavily on flashbacks and time skips and a lot of relevant information happens off-screen. And I had to really pick apart the artwork for the battle with the demon queen so I can differentiate between the one doing the ass kicking and the one getting their ass kicked. And what price did Emma pay? You Know Who = real villain?

That cliffhanger!

The way this volume started and the whole space-time stuff threw me, but the light bulbs went off as that arc went on. Don and Glinda are going to have problems once they find who they are looking for. Starting with You Know Who…

You know who outlines his plan and Emma isn’t having it. I’m not down with her way of thinking; she just seems dangerously naive to me. On a shallow note, Ray looks like a thug with that tattoo on his neck. The others don’t look like that. Just him.