White Night

I really was going to hold off reading the new Harry Dresden novel, I snarf them up too quickly for it to be worth spending hardback prices. Luckily, I was able to get my friend Anna addicted to the series so I was able to just borrow her copy.

Another great read, typical of the past few books. Someone’s killing minor practitioners of magic and some think that person may be Harry.

Jim Butcher does a good job of resolving the main story line of the novel while keeping the bigger arc moving along at the same time. I was a bit disappointed with how quickly the Lash storyline resolved. Now I have to wait another year for the next book.

The Ghost Brigades

I read John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War last year and enjoyed it, a well done sci-fi military novel in the vein of Robert Heinlein. This one is a sequel that has one Jane Sagan from the first book but she isn’t really the main character. Jared Dirac is a artificially grown clown of a renegade scientist with a copy of his consciousness transferred in. Unfortunately it didn’t quite take, but given that the entire human civilization may be at stake it’s important to find out what bouncing around his head.

I enjoyed it, note quite as much as the first novel but enough to want to read the sequel, The Last Colony.