Short Takes

1/21/06 Book-wise, I finished Black, by Dekker (a bit inane), and am currently reading Runner, by Dietz and My FBI by Freeh.

1/24/06 Began reading Ghost, by John Ringo, and couldn't put it down...so I didn't...till it was finished. Pretty good anti-terrorist rant, a la Tom Clancy. Brutal violence, brutal sex, not for the faint of heart.

Windmaster's Bane by Tom Dietz

This is a pretty fair novel of, well, not exactly urban, perhaps rural fantasy. The premise is that the Sidhe have been alive and well in Georgia’s Blue Ridge Mountains for centuries, and only those with the Sight have known of it. Such a person is young David Sullivan, who becomes aware of the existence of the Sidhe and finds himself a pawn in their games of power. But David is not utterly without power himself, and thereby hangs the tale. There are at least two factions of the elven kingdom, and the ones who wish to make war on the humans would like David killed or enslaved, while those who would have peace offer him their protection.



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