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<blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 9249159" data-attributes="member: 70">I didn't read anything for a few weeks because I'm still finding it hard to get into reading anything &quot;new&quot;. That said, I picked up Saevus Corax Deals With the Dead, by KJ Parker, last week and blew through it, so I grabbed the rest of the trilogy, read those, and then Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju, by Kim Newman.I didn't realize KJ Parker was Tom Holt until I was in the bookstore. I have only a passing familiarity with him, but between the two names he's got quite a large body of work, so I figured if it's good I'll be able to find more to read. I enjoyed Saevus. It was very much a &quot;clever boy&quot; character, and Lies of Locke Lamora did it better, but still enjoyable in the same fashion as reading a cozy fireside mystery, I guess. Solid 3/5, I guess - the last book was weaker than the first. Apparently he writes those sorts of characters a lot. Anno Dracula 1999 was also solid. Kim Newman writes well. 4/5? 7/10? I've got to dig around my boxes and find the other ones I have, and then get the missing ones. The whole series would make an excellent tv show on streaming, doing a book/era a season.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nellisir, post: 9249159, member: 70"] I didn't read anything for a few weeks because I'm still finding it hard to get into reading anything "new". That said, I picked up [I]Saevus Corax Deals With the Dead[/I], by KJ Parker, last week and blew through it, so I grabbed the rest of the trilogy, read those, and then [I]Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju[/I], by Kim Newman. I didn't realize KJ Parker was Tom Holt until I was in the bookstore. I have only a passing familiarity with him, but between the two names he's got quite a large body of work, so I figured if it's good I'll be able to find more to read. I enjoyed Saevus. It was very much a "clever boy" character, and [I]Lies of Locke Lamora[/I] did it better, but still enjoyable in the same fashion as reading a cozy fireside mystery, I guess. Solid 3/5, I guess - the last book was weaker than the first. Apparently he writes those sorts of characters a lot. [I]Anno Dracula 1999 [/I]was also solid. Kim Newman writes well. 4/5? 7/10? I've got to dig around my boxes and find the other ones I have, and then get the missing ones. The whole series would make an excellent tv show on streaming, doing a book/era a season. [/QUOTE]

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