Another book, I know, no actual TV this year, I promise I'll get to the TV soon enough it is just that my brains are being eaten by fiction and I'm really enjoying this fact.
Now in the run up to christmas last year I was reading a lot of Kelley Armstrong, I read the first eight in the women of the otherworld series and as I read I realised that there was a short story collection, Men of the Otherworld which I really had to read.
It's not really a collection of short stories more a sequence of episodes which deal with Jeremy's early life, and Clayton's story. It is a lot shorter than her novels and it really is more about the pack history than anything else. I really enjoyed it. Jeremy is one of those characters you wish you were more like, or that you wish you knew someone like that. Clayton isn't, but its a great deal of background knowledge that only get's hinted at in the novels and its great to see what happened to the pack prior to Elena and tie some ends together. Questions are also answered about Jeremy and it does so in a neat short story.
Not really a book for someone looking to start reading a series, I'd send you to the beginning and get you to read Bitten and Stolen. I think it is a book for the fan and its none the worse for that.
Next on the reading list is the expanded and full version of American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I adore Neil Gaiman, I've read a lot of his novels over the years and this is one that has eluded me a little bit. I cannot wait to read this because Neil Gaiman writes so effortlessly and so beautifully it makes me want to cry beecause I'll never handle words as well as he can.
I'll be back to let you know how I got on.
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