Curse of the Black Heron by Holly Lisle

Isbetta, the daughter of a legendary bard, calls on her own untrained powers to search out the mysterious figure called the Black Heron who murdered her father.

Gah. Terrible.

Now have to revist the Secret Texts novels to find out if they were this bad and I failed to notice it at the time.

Serenity

Her fabulousness cricketk snapped up some tickets for the advance screening so we piled along last night to squeak and squee. More commentary when everyone else has seen it.

I am so naïve; they scanned everyone at the doors and took all mobile phones away; I cheerfully handed over the phones and walked to my seat before realising what they actually wanted was the digital camera still in my bag.

The police on the way home stopped me for a random breath test and a short discussion on why I don’t have a registration sticker for Lambert thus wasting all my lovely speeding.