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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 3940848" data-attributes="member: 3649">Michael Chabon's "Gentlemen Of The Road: A Tale Of Adventure" AKA 'Jews With Swords' was quite enjoyable."Boots and the Seven-Leaguers: A Rock-and-Troll Story" by Jane Yolan, a YA book that was a nice light quick 'recharge' book for me. Gog the troll and his Pooka buddy try to score tickets to the big music event of the Kingdom under Rhymer's Bridge, but things go awry when his little brother goes missing and the pair have to venture into the fairie woods to look for him."Hero" is a superhero prose novel by Perry Moore (executive producer for the Narnia series). Thom Creed is the son of disgraced non-powered superhero Major Might. Discovering he has superpowers himself, he petitions to join The League and is placed in a probationary team with a group of almost 'Mystery Men'-level losers who nonetheless learn to use their powers in some pretty inovative ways. Thom also outs himself as his world's first gay superhero. It's obviously a 'first novel' (though he has plans for an entire series of books about Thom and a possible movie); the pacing is off in a lot of places, some of the situations are painted a bit broadly for my taste, but at least he avoids two hideously cliched plot points I was terribly afraid he was going to use and gives a nicely entertaining story in the end. "Soon I Will Be Invincible" is still a much better superhero prose book, but I'll see what the next Moore book is like.Right now, I'm on "Making Money" by Terry Pratchett, where Mr Lipwick from 'Going Postal' has been tapped to run the Ankh-Moorpork Bank and Mint.</blockquote>

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