additional lame book reviews

Yes, more reviews. Why the wait? Because I finally read some books again during a few days of vacation.

Day Watch by Sergei Lukyaneko -- pretty similar to the first book, Night Watch. As good as the first, and sometimes as infuriating (wah? where'd that plot twist come from?). But pretty fun. Hopefully the new movie will be good as well.

Storm Front by Jim Butcher -- the lovely wife and I are enjoying the Dresden Files on SciFi, so I thought I'd pick up the first book in the series it was based on. Pretty good. On the fence on whether I'll pick up more.

Fiends of the Eastern Front by David Bishop -- What'll that crazy Hitler do next? Hire vampires to help win WWII, that's what. I liked the premise. I liked some scenes. But, ultimately very lame.

Did I mention it was lame? And full of typos? I usually blissfully skip right past most typos, not this time. That must mean they were 2-3x more that I missed.

Sample paraphrased ending scene of each book (in the 3-book omnibus):

books #1 and #2:
Lord Constanta (main baddie) : "Yes. You tried to kill me. Did I mention I'm completely (and lamely) invulnerable? It's because my Sire is so super bad-ass. I'll let you live to the next book, but let me tell you about my ludicrous world domination plans first...."

book #3: Yes. I'm spoiling the ending.

(further expository villains explaining their ludicrous world domination plan ... : "Yes, our plan is to darken the skies over Europe so we don't have to worry about our sunlight imposed curfew. Then we can drink blooooooooood all the time! Muauahahahhaa. No, I don't see the complication that that'll kill all life other than us... C'mon, man. We're gonna teach the stupid sun a lesson.")

And, the horrible, horrible, horrible ending:

The Sire (basically a big vampire bat you might expect to see in a Godzilla flick) : Bwaaaaah! Watch me fly outta this lake of blood. Oh nos! The day-walker hero is doing his homage to Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove by riding a silver-tipped V1 rocket into me. I esplode. When I gave Lord Constanta his resurrection powers, I forgot to give them to my self. Curse my strict FIFO ordering of completing my TODO list.

I was willing to give the books a little credit until the ultra-lame ending. Christ on a pogo stick, that was awful.