Koi's Notebook

( Review: Dead Sky, Black Sun by Graham McNeill )

This book is:
* - huge in scope and vision
* - above-average in quality of prose
* - fourth in a series

This book is not:
* - done any services by the disparity between scale of ideas and quality of prose
* - at all comprehensible without reading the other three books first
* - slow

16/12/09 - 18/12/09 - Ill

( Review: Necropolis by Dan Abnett )

This book is:
* - better than the sum of its parts
* - better than Ghostmaker
* - an okay read

This book is not:
* - made of very many good parts
* - better than First and Only
* - more than okay

14/11/09 - 17/11/09 - Ill
18/11/09 - Art: Dark Redemption profiles
19/11/09 - Art: Dark Redemption profiles
20/11/09 - Art: Dark Redemption profiles
21/11/09 - Day Off

( Review: Ghostmaker by Dan Abnett )

This book is:
* - a collection of character vignettes
* - technically well-written
* - two-elevenths good reading

This book is not:
* - particularly fun
* - contained of enough plot
* - nine-elevenths good reading

9/10/09 - 11/10/09 - Ill

( Review: Daemon World by Ben Counter )

This book is:
* - about the author's over-powered canon-breaking mouthpiece hitting the canon over the head and shouting "Bad! Bad! Bad!"
* - dreadful in all its parts
* - only for readers who want to learn from someone else's mistakes

This book is not:
* - contained of any good characters
* - contained of a plot that makes sense
* - worth the paper it is printed on

25/9/09 - 27/9/09 - House Moving

( Review: Dark Disciple by Anthony Reynolds )

This book is:
* - a great improvement on Dark Apostle
* - blood, gunfire and viciousness
* - an all-round fine book

This book is not:
* - comprehensible without reading Dark Apostle
* - well proofread
* - friendly, fluffy, comforting reading

23/3/09 - Art: Dark Redemption profiles
24/3/09 - 27/3/09 - Ill
28/3/09 - Art: Dark Redemption sketches
29/3/09 - Art: Dark Redemption sketches
30/3/09 - Day Off
01/4/09 - Ill
02/4/09 - Ill
03/4/09 - 05/4/09 - Holiday
06/4/09 - Ill
07/4/09 - Day Off
08/4/09 - Ill
09/4/09 - 11/4/09 - Blocked [social]

( Review: Lord of the Night by Simon Spurrier )

This book is:
* - surprisingly good
* - character-driven
* - mostly about Zso Sahaal

This book is not:
* - good beyond its two main characters
* - more than competantly written
* - well-ended