New book

1. The silent sea - Clive Cussler

6 new books so far in October 2011.

True Blood news from IDW

IDW Publishing has announced an ongoing True Blood comic-book series beginning next spring.

Formic Wars: Burning Earth

When Marvel announced this prequel to Ender's game, I decided to pass. Now I'm glad that I bought it at Icon. I've no idea why it was sold at the 2nd hand booth for hapf price. The story is great and so is the art. This book is a must for Ender's readers.

The Hunger Games = Suzanne Collins

The jury is still out on this trilogy. On the one hand I wasn't able to stop reading and got very annoyed with the way Katniss treats Peeta. On the other hand I dislike the idea of the victors in a civil war enslaving the loosers. I'm shuddering to imagine how the U.S.A would have looked if the North would have treated rrhe South the way the Capitol is treating the 12 Districts.

Guss I'll have to wait till I'll read the 2nd book to decide whether I like & will keep these books.

Bones: 206 bones

Wonderful book. It starts with Tempe waking in a tomb, and goes back to explain how she got there. In the time leading to her abduction, Tempe is accused of malpractice, wit holding information and being careless. She has to solve multiple murders of old ladies and clear her name at the same time.

From the beginning I suspected the upstart Dr. Briel and Tempe's assistant Joe as the ones behind Tempe's defamation and abduction. But it was fun reading the whole story.

Ta to Mrs. Reichs for transalating some of the French.

The rest of January 2012 solicitations

Boom:

1. STEED AND MRS PEEL #1

Dynamite:

1. LORD OF THE JUNGLE #2


2. FLASH GORDON: ZEITGEIST #3


3. ROBOCOP: ROAD TRIP #2


4. BIONIC MAN #6

ZENOSCOPE:

1. CHARMED #18

21 comics so far solicited for January 2012.

New book

1. 24 declassified: The Trojan horse

6 new books so far in October 2011.

New comics

1. Bionic man #3


2. Buffy s9 #2 - Freefall p.2


3. Doctor Who s2 #1 - Body snatched


4. Snake Eyes #6


5. Star Trek / Legion of superheroes #1


6. The Hedge Knight II: Sworn sword


7. Victorian undead II: Sherlock Holmes v/ Dracula

22 new comics so far in October 2011.

IDW for January 2012

1. ANNE RICE SERVANT OF THE BONES #6


2. COBRA ANNUAL 2012 ORIGIN OF COBRA COMMANDER #1


3. COBRA ONGOING #9


4. DOCTOR WHO ONGOING VOL 2 #13


5. GI JOE VOL 2 ONGOING #9


6. SNAKE EYES ONGOING (IDW) #9


7. STAR TREK / LEGION OF SUPERHEROES #4


8. STAR TREK ONGOING #5


9. TRUE BLOOD FRENCH QUARTER #6


10. G.I. JOE Yearbook

15 comics so far solicited for January 2012.

Image for January 2012

1. MORIARTY #8

6 comics so far solicited for January 2012.

Dark Horse for January 2012

1. ANGEL & FAITH #6


2. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON 9 #5


3. HOUSE OF NIGHT #3

5 comics so far solicited for January 2012.

DC for January 2012

1. SUPERNATURAL #4

2 comics so far solicited for January 2012

New comics

The 1st day of Icon - the local sci-fi con is ober for me and at the 2nd hand booth I found the following Ender's Game graphic novel for half price :)

1. Formic wars: Burning Earth

15 new comics so far in October 2011.

Percy Jackson: The son of Neptune

The 2nd book in the Heroes of Olympus series is as great as all the previous Percy Jackson books. The beginning is a bit slow but then the story gets into its stride and it's anothe'r unputdownable book from the WOW list

We learn about Jupiter Camp - the camp of Roman demigods, and about some of the gods in their Roman persona (Juno = Hera, Mars = Ares). We also meet Frank - the son of Mars who is totally different from his Greek sister Clariss and Hazel - the daughter of Pluto = Hades. The only Greek demigods in the book are Percy and Nico di Angelo who is Hazel's Greek brother. Togther with Percy, Hazel and Frank manage to kill 2 of Gaea's giant sons and save Camp Jupiter from a big monster attack. The book ends with a huge cliff hanger: the Argo II from Camp Half Blood land in the middle of Camp Jupiter and Percy with the rest of the Roman demigods go to meet them. Bad Rick Riordan - forcing the readers to wait for a very long year for the next book that will hopefully start with whatever happened in that meeting.

A note to Mr. Riordan - This is a book aimed at children. Don't you think that it's a bit dangerous to state that the online shop Amazon is actually the headquarters of the legendary Amazons ??? Childern are not best know for their ability to tell fiction from reality.

Fallen = Lauren Kate

I bought this book and it's sequel by chance. Saw them in the used books shop but didn't buy them. Then I went to Steimatzky - the big new books store and saw them again. Read the description at the back and decided that I want them. Went back to the used books shop and got the 2 books in mint condition for less then the price a one new book.

Reading the book was a huge surprise. It's an unputdownable book and one for the WOW list. Yes, like in Hunted, part of it is romance novel, but the rest is lots of action & paranormal stuff. Here Luce - the mortal girl falls in love with a good fallen angel, only there are hints that Luce isn't a nere mortal. The book ends with Luce being spirited away from the reform school where she met with the fallen angels (good & bad), after a fight between Daniel - the good angel and Cam the bad one that ended ina tie.

Looking forward to read the next book in the series that is already waiting in the pile of "to read"book waiting beside ny bed :)

Haunted - Meg Cabot

Not very enjoyable book. The formula is the same as in the 1-800 books. Even Suze's tendancy to punch whoever annoy her is the sane as Jess's. The book is more a romacne novel then a paranormal book. The 1-800 books has more action in them and are much more enjoyable.

Doctor Who: Paradox lost

This book is about the old paradox of time travel: if you go back in time and kill your grandpa before your father was born, you will not be born and won't be around to go back in time and kill your grandpa. So who killed your grandpa if you was never born ???

In the book the Doctor, Amy & Rory arrive at the 28th century London and meet an android who was fished out of the Thames and claim that he waited for 1.000 years in the water to warn the Doctor about a life force vampire race infesting London in 1910. The Doctor leave Amy & Rory in the 28th century to find a mysterious scientist who is bulding a time machine, and go back in the Tardis to 1910. There he finds the Vamps and the time machine, Amy & Rory. As it turned out, leaving Amy & Rory in the future is what caused the Vamps to follow them through time and space to 1910 London. As usual the Doctor save London and send the Vamps to another dimenssion.

I enjoyed reading the book more then I enjoyed the other 11th Doctor books that I read so far.

Bluewater for January 2012

I was so busy with work that I didnt even notice that it's time for January solicitations to begin, so I was surprised when Bluewater's solicitations appeared till I saw today's date :

1. Sherlock Holmes: Victorian knights #2

1 comics so far solicited for January 2012

New book

A week late but here it is:

1. Percy Jackson: The son of Neptune

5 new books so far in October 2011.

New comics

1. Castle: Deadly storm

14 new comics so far in October 2011

New books

1. The stranger house - Reginald Hill


2. The hunger games - Susan Collins


3. Fallen - Lauren Kate


4. Torment - Lauren Kate

4 new books so far in October 2011.

New comics

1. Angel & Faith #2 - Live through this p.2


2. Bionic man #2


3. Charmed #14


4. Doctor Who s2 #9 - Space squid


5. Dresden files: Fool moon #4


6. G.I. Joe s2 #5


7. G.I. Joe s2 #6


8. Snake Eyes #5


9. Moriarty #5 - The lazarus tree p.1


10. Ruse: The victorian guide to murder


11. Supernatural #1 - Caledonia: The dogs of Edinbrugh p.1


12. Terminator/Robocop: Kill human p#3


13. True Blood: The Frenck Quarter #2

13 new comics so far in October 2011

Murder she wrote: Brandy & Bullets

An old mansion in Cabot Cob is sold and turned into a retreat for sturggeling artists. But when said artists start kiliing themsleves and one of Jessica's friend is missing and presumed dead, Jessica start investigating and almost get herself killed. At the end she discover that the CIA is using the retreat as a lab for mind control experiments.

Another great Murder She Wrote book. Loved every minute of it, although early on when hypnosis was discussed, I was sure that the artits weren't succidal but hypnotised.

Alex Rider"Skeleton key

Alex was asked to go undercover as a ball boy in Wimbeldon and gets himself targeted by a chinese triad. To save his life he sent by MI6 to help the CIA against a meglomaniac ex-Russian general who wants to make the world into a communist "paradise". Of course in the end Alex again save the day.

It's getting a bit ridiculous when 2 seasoned CIA agents get themselves killed 5 minutes into the mission while Alex manage to stop the sinister plot. But it's easy reading and very suitable when I don't want to think.

Buffy: Child of the hunt

Buffy & co. find thensleves between a group of warlocks & witches and the Wld Hunt - demons from another demention. This happened because thet tried to help a sad boy who was mistreated by the magicians and who turned out to be the heir of the wild hunt's king.

For some reasom I was reluctant to read the Buffy books that are waiting in the piles by my bed. When I funally decided to give it a try, I wasn't disappointed. Very enjoyable book.