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A review by timinbc
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
2.0
OK, I read #1 then #3 before this. In my review of #3 I wrote "the book's just repetitions of don't go in there / but I have to / omigosh my power is drained / uh-oh, I'm in trouble / (digs deeper) Aha! I win! And sometimes he wins by remembering one more thing we hadn't known about magic."
I see no reason to change that for book 2. I'll just add that his relationship with Murphy is badly done, and I grew tired of his "I'm so cool in my duster."
Also, if you are old enough to remember MAD Magazine's great artist Don Martin, you may remember his classic long (~30 pages) cartoon "National Gorilla Suit Day." In it, our heroes Fester and Karbunkle meet a series of opponents, the first of whom is in a gorilla suit. All the people they meet after that eventually unzip their costumes to reveal that they are gorillas. Except when a gorilla unzips again to reveal a human. Or two smaller gorillas. In every case the gorilla pounds F & K to a pulp. Well, this book felt like that. If the book had gone on longer I suspect we'd have learned that Murphy and Susan are werewolves, and Bob is a were-skull.
I'm told this series gets better. Maybe it does, but I'll never know. If I want a series of formula books I'll go read Nero Wolfe again - the plots are way better.
I see no reason to change that for book 2. I'll just add that his relationship with Murphy is badly done, and I grew tired of his "I'm so cool in my duster."
Also, if you are old enough to remember MAD Magazine's great artist Don Martin, you may remember his classic long (~30 pages) cartoon "National Gorilla Suit Day." In it, our heroes Fester and Karbunkle meet a series of opponents, the first of whom is in a gorilla suit. All the people they meet after that eventually unzip their costumes to reveal that they are gorillas. Except when a gorilla unzips again to reveal a human. Or two smaller gorillas. In every case the gorilla pounds F & K to a pulp. Well, this book felt like that. If the book had gone on longer I suspect we'd have learned that Murphy and Susan are werewolves, and Bob is a were-skull.
I'm told this series gets better. Maybe it does, but I'll never know. If I want a series of formula books I'll go read Nero Wolfe again - the plots are way better.