Eddie's Fancy

I’ve really enjoyed the books by John Scalzi I’ve read so far, this one is a young adult style tale telling a parallel story to The Last Colony. It was enjoyable, but since I’ve already read The Last Colony it was a bit unsatisfying. Still, it was a good read.

I’ve been looking for the middle book of Kim Newman’s Dracula series for years, even breaking down to read book three because I couldn’t wait any longer.

Over Thanksgiving we were up in the Northeast and I ended up killing some time in a small used bookstore in Newark, Delaware. I was browsing the stacks when I passed the horror section only to do a double take. And there in the corner was a copy of this. Yes!

I read it in two sessions, I would have finished it in one if I had the time. Maybe not quite as good as the first in the series, but I still enjoyed the heck out of it. I just wish Newman’s books weren’t so hard to find here in the states. I’ve loaded up some of his short fiction on my Sony Reader, that will have to do for now.

This was an impulse read. I forget how I first heard about the book but I stuck it in my Amazon Wish-List and eventually my mom bought it for my birthday. And Irishman is granted immortality for a long as he stays on Manhattan. It’s really a history of New York.

A good read, it was my Thanksgiving traveling book. My only wish is that it had been a bit longer and went into more detail about New York.