Swine Flu

I has it! Iz not so bad acshually!

Shadows of the Apt

Little bit into "Dragonfly Falling" by the impressively named Adrian Tchaikovsky, second book in the trilogy and depending on who you listen to either a bad attempt at a middle book, or a significant improvement over book one and perfectly done for a mid series book.

Seems fine so far, with these large fantasy novels you generally get some slack at the start of latter books, not so much here though, a number of the threads are action packed and moving far quicker that I'd have ever hoped for, the other threads are moving quite nicely too. Just what I need right now as I appear to have got fucking "Swine Flu" and am very woolly headed at times and this book is doing all the work for me.

Slow going

"Banquet of the Damned" took an amazing 12 days to finish 406 pages. I did quite enjoy it and "Dante" the lead character stayed with me for days afterwards.


I then grabbed the wonderful "Monster Island" by David Wellington. Zombie apocalypse story with a few twists and quite a few WTF moments which almost had be throwing the book away. He has taken more than a few liberties with the Zombie myth, few of which are really needed or welcome. But hell it's an entertaining read and there are Zombies, who are very much the new black. Whether I get the other 2 books will be down to me being able to get them very cheaply as I hear they stray even further from the stray and narrow.

The Damned Theme

Without concious thought, I've ended up reading "Banquet for the Damned" by Adam L. G. Nevill. Haven't done any horror for a while so grabbed it without really thinking. It's good. Taking me quite a while to read but that's more down to me than anything else.