Adam x 2

As you may know, I've been playing with setting up a blog over the last few months. It's now up and running in a form I'm pretty pleased with. Be warned: it's generally more serious, more British and more journalistically-oriented than what I post here.

However, if you would like to keep up with it through Livejournal you can add it to your friend page at adamtinworth.

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Defending my argument

OK, my post a few days ago seems to have placed a cat amongst some flying rats, as we like to describe pigeons in this fair city. Out of respect for the people writing the later novels in the Dark Ages Clan Novels series, I went out and bought all the books published since I gave up on book 1, with every intention of trying to read them.

So, what have we got?

Cappodocian, by Andrew Bates. Mixed feelings on that. The Year of the Scarab trilogy was passable: good plot, slightly bland characters. Oh, and I've never quite forgiven him for ignoring the distinct voice I tried to build up for Bookworm in Hunter Book: Innocent.

Setite, By Kathy Ryan. Ah-ha. First of the books that I can actively say I'm looking forward to reading. Kathy did one of the precious few worthwhile books in the original series. It's good to see her writing again.

Lasombra, by David Niall Wilson. Eh. Never liked his writing. In particular, I found the Grails Covenant Trilogy to be nearly unreadable. Not an incentive to read this one.

Ravnos, by Sarah Roark. OK, this is intriguing. In her other work doctorcaligari has shown a gift for interesting characterization. I'm looking forward to seeing what she can do over the length of a novel.

Reviews to follow as I get through each book.