{"id":922,"date":"2014-08-10T02:12:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T02:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=922"},"modified":"2014-08-15T11:26:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T11:26:54","slug":"indexing-skin-game-some-other-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/indexing-skin-game-some-other-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Indexing, Skin Game, &#038; Some Other Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May as well get these out of the way while I&#8217;m updating things. Read them months ago and just couldn&#8217;t be bothered recording them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seanan_McGuire#Velveteen\" target=\"_blank\">Seanan McGuire<\/a>&#8216;s <em>Indexing<\/em> is pretty good. It&#8217;s a bit busy and the fairy tale elements are obviously contrived, yet it manages to work for the most part rather well.<\/li>\n<li>The most recent <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Dresden_Files\" target=\"_blank\">Dresden Files<\/a> installment, <em>Skin Game<\/em>, makes me start to seriously wonder what I ever liked about the series. To be fair I actually started wondering that last installment, but this one really drives the feeling home. The relationship between Dresden and Murphy, the light saber, his self-moral questioning&#8230; it&#8217;s all just cringe-worthy. There are a few notably well-done scenes, but for the most part it just seems incredibly juvenile.<\/li>\n<li>The fourth book in Keri Arthur&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keri_Arthur#Nikki_and_Michael\" target=\"_blank\">Nikki and Michael<\/a> series is shockingly enough not awful. Rather, <em>Kiss the Night Goodbye<\/em> is merely average.<\/li>\n<li>The <em>Damask Circle<\/em> series, also by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keri_Arthur\" target=\"_blank\">Keri Arthur<\/a>, ties into the above series. Its first three entries (<em>Circle of Fire<\/em>\/<em>Death<\/em>\/<em>Desire<\/em>) are all both episodic and more or less as painfully generic as a paranormal romance can be.<\/li>\n<li>And finally we come to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cecy-Robson\/e\/B00ATRD6B4\" target=\"_blank\">Cecy Robson<\/a>, the author of the <em>Weird Girls<\/em> series. I found the first book to be one of the worst I&#8217;ve ever had the misfortune of reading, so of course (of <em>course<\/em>) the second and third ones were pre-ordered and showed up shortly after. The second, <em>A Cursed Embrace<\/em>, is so horrific I could not finish it&#8230; not even by skimming. In fact, it single-handily nearly destroyed my desire to ever pick up a paperback again. I flat-out refuse to so much as even open the third book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May as well get these out of the way while I&#8217;m updating things. Read them months ago and just couldn&#8217;t be bothered recording them. Seanan McGuire&#8216;s Indexing is pretty good. It&#8217;s a bit busy and the fairy tale elements are obviously contrived, yet it manages to work for the most part rather well. The most recent Dresden Files installment, Skin Game, makes me start to seriously wonder what I ever liked about the series. To be fair I actually started wondering that last installment, but this one really drives the feeling home. The relationship between Dresden and Murphy, the light saber, his self-moral questioning&#8230; it&#8217;s all just cringe-worthy. There are a few notably well-done scenes, but for the most part it just seems incredibly juvenile. The fourth book in Keri Arthur&#8217;s Nikki and Michael series is shockingly enough not awful. Rather, Kiss the Night Goodbye is merely average. The Damask Circle series, also by Keri Arthur, ties into the above series. Its first three entries (Circle of Fire\/Death\/Desire) are all both episodic and more or less as painfully generic as a paranormal romance can be. And finally we come to Cecy Robson, the author of the Weird Girls series. 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