Caroline's review
Dead To Me
by Anton Strout (Goodreads author!)
Caroline's review
Dead To Me by Anton Strout (Goodreads author!)
Caroline's review
rating:
bookshelves:
fantasy,
read-in-2008
This is a really fun debut novel in a new urban fantasy series, and coming from someone who isn't wildly a fan of urban fantasy (epic and traditional are more my thing) I really enjoyed it!
Anton Strout has a great sense of humor, and the prose is laced with witty sarcasm that had me giggling to myself at times (I don't often giggle while reading books, so this is definitely saying something!). I've always been a fan of more sarcastic novels, but it's not often that an author pulls it off well before it starts getting irritating (example: Anita Blake. Yes, she's feisty, we get it), and a debut author, at that! Nothing like a self-deprecating hero sometimes.
It had a really entertaining story involving evil cultists (who employee zombies to do word processing!), ghostsniffers, and a wooden fish. There were no real lulls in the plot--it just kept going and kept getting better.
Looking forward to the next in the series--this was a great debut by a very witty author.
Anton Strout has a great sense of humor, and the prose is laced with witty sarcasm that had me giggling to myself at times (I don't often giggle while reading books, so this is definitely saying something!). I've always been a fan of more sarcastic novels, but it's not often that an author pulls it off well before it starts getting irritating (example: Anita Blake. Yes, she's feisty, we get it), and a debut author, at that! Nothing like a self-deprecating hero sometimes.
It had a really entertaining story involving evil cultists (who employee zombies to do word processing!), ghostsniffers, and a wooden fish. There were no real lulls in the plot--it just kept going and kept getting better.
Looking forward to the next in the series--this was a great debut by a very witty author.
