Cobra Trap, Eragon, Girl Genius, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, Buffy S8E10

[samvara]

Cobra Trap by Peter O’Donnell. A series of short stories covering different times in the life of Modesty Blaise for which I have much, much love.

Eragon by Christopher Paolini. Atrocious. Unreadable, desperately in need of a good editor. I can forgive a lot and I know the author is very young but something like this making it into print just hurts.

Girl Genius (01 - 06) Agatha Heterodyne by Kaja and Phil Foglio. Graphic Novels. The ongoing adventures of Agatha Heterodyne, a young scientific genius in a World Gone Mad! Adventure! Romance! Mad Science! This is gorgeous. The illustrations are beautiful, the story is amusing, interesting and self-aware and I am utterly in love.

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip. Rich in mythology and wizardry with fabulous beasts and a deceptively simple plot. Sybel is a powerful wizard, content to live apart from the rest of humanity with her menagerie of fantastic beasts. Her solitude is rudely destroyed when a young man delivers a baby, which she learns to love and she is slowly drawn into worldly conflicts.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8, Issue 10 by Joss Whedon. Still maintaining the humour element, very fond of Xander. 

Comments

[missyjack.livejournal.com]

I must read that Modesty Blaise book! I devoured the novels when I was in my teens.

[riverbella.livejournal.com]

I love Patricia McKillip! The Forgotten Beasts of Eld was wonderful. She also wrote one of my all-time favorite fantasy trilogies, a definite read over-and-over again, The Riddle Master of Hed. Have you read it? It is beyond brilliant, and it may have one of the best ever final lines in the history of literature.

Eragon. Thank goodness. I thought I was the only one! I was totally prepared to love it. Don't really understand why it got so much hype, unless it was just to fill a Rowling gap.

And, of course, Modesty! I was looking through my paperback collection recently and discovered I have two copies of I, Lucifer. I think I got the second one when my brother had (not so) temporary custody of the first one. Both are used, but in decent shape, so if you don't have that one and would like a copy, let me know. I'd be happy to let one go to a good home as I'm about to be walled in by books!