Thou art anathema!

I finished reading Charlie Huston's No Dominion last night.

Very good read. I think this one might be better than Already Dead, but I'll reserve that judgement until I let it sit for a few weeks and read it again. The aesthetic follows the first book, and since I'm a huge fan of good aesthetics, I'll forgive a lot in a book, movie, or TV show if it's got a good style and well done visuals (tone and setting for books, as they don't have visuals as such). Huston mates his very cool aesthetic with good plotting and decent characters. Some of the characters on the edge are a bit on the shallow side, but the characters we're primarily focusing on have some depth and actually do some developing as the story unfolds.

Chad mentioned Huston's use of the emdash to denote spoken bits of text, and some people don't like this. I actually do. It allows us to easily see what characters are saying vs. what they're thinking with a simple visual cue instead of explicit text. It's clean, simple, and works well, IMNSHO.

Vampire noir? Who knew it could be written and be this cool?

We don't get the shambling Hordes zombie pun this time around, but that's okay.

Thou art anathema!

I finished reading Charlie Huston's No Dominion last night.

Very good read. I think this one might be better than Already Dead, but I'll reserve that judgement until I let it sit for a few weeks and read it again. The aesthetic follows the first book, and since I'm a huge fan of good aesthetics, I'll forgive a lot in a book, movie, or TV show if it's got a good style and well done visuals (tone and setting for books, as they don't have visuals as such). Huston mates his very cool aesthetic with good plotting and decent characters. Some of the characters on the edge are a bit on the shallow side, but the characters we're primarily focusing on have some depth and actually do some developing as the story unfolds.

Chad mentioned Huston's use of the emdash to denote spoken bits of text, and some people don't like this. I actually do. It allows us to easily see what characters are saying vs. what they're thinking with a simple visual cue instead of explicit text. It's clean, simple, and works well, IMNSHO.

Vampire noir? Who knew it could be written and be this cool?

We don't get the shambling Hordes zombie pun this time around, but that's okay.

Thou art anathema!

I finished reading Charlie Huston's No Dominion last night.

Very good read. I think this one might be better than Already Dead, but I'll reserve that judgement until I let it sit for a few weeks and read it again. The aesthetic follows the first book, and since I'm a huge fan of good aesthetics, I'll forgive a lot in a book, movie, or TV show if it's got a good style and well done visuals (tone and setting for books, as they don't have visuals as such). Huston mates his very cool aesthetic with good plotting and decent characters. Some of the characters on the edge are a bit on the shallow side, but the characters we're primarily focusing on have some depth and actually do some developing as the story unfolds.

Chad mentioned Huston's use of the emdash to denote spoken bits of text, and some people don't like this. I actually do. It allows us to easily see what characters are saying vs. what they're thinking with a simple visual cue instead of explicit text. It's clean, simple, and works well, IMNSHO.

Vampire noir? Who knew it could be written and be this cool?

We don't get the shambling Hordes zombie pun this time around, but that's okay.