false 81062 3 Chance Matthews is drawn into a battle between angels and monsters because of something in her possession-a fossil of a creature that couldn't possibly have ever existed. But it did. And still does. 929484 2001 Threshold total:230|5:59|4:85|3:63|2:10|1:13| 230 857 383 33 2 2 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Apr 05 19:35:31 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 19:59:34 -0700 2009
The story seemed intriguing (Fossils? Goths? Beowulf? Do tell!) and the musicality of the language and the strong imagery provided enough of an incentive to bear with it, to a point.

So what brok...more...]]> 1 1 false false Thu Apr 09 12:34:56 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 12:48:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Sep 23 18:45:56 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 01:19:11 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 18:45:56 -0700 2009 In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers and decided to check it out (literally and figuratively. My review is here). Not too long after, I stumbled on Alabaster (a collection of Dancy Flammarion stories. I do believe I've mentioned elsewh...more...]]> 1 1 false false Wed Jun 20 17:32:39 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 20 17:33:34 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 06:08:25 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 06:15:44 -0700 2009
Kiernan also has an almost annoy...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 02:35:01 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 17:41:54 -0700 2009 3 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 23 08:24:42 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 30 16:45:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 08:11:15 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 08:24:25 -0800 2008
That said...

Awful! I read a great deal, good and bad, interesting and dull, but never one that was so ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Thu Aug 02 08:36:46 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 08:38:18 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 08 19:16:12 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 17 17:32:17 -0700 2007
The first thing that you'll notice within the first 10 pages is the author's horrible prose. With each paragraph containing ma...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 16 22:36:13 -0700 2007 Wed May 30 14:57:04 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 02 03:02:36 -0700 2008 Sun Feb 08 06:34:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 12:40:58 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 19:02:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Mar 21 20:52:06 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 20:54:04 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 17:33:52 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 15:54:42 -0700 2009 is better suited to reading aloud--or a much shorter s...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 06 16:50:56 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 06 20:09:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 15:40:20 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 15:36:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false true Tue Apr 15 02:39:19 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 02:39:52 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jul 25 20:22:40 -0700 2007 Sat Feb 28 16:13:31 -0800 2009 Low Red Moon quite a bit more. I think my take on Threshold was colored by reading it immediately after LRM, though (I started it before realizing I was reading them out of order, although that turned out not to matter as much as I expected).]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 17 07:57:28 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 17 08:00:12 -0800 2008 1