Well, that might have been predictable if I had read it in more than a few hours, but it did its job in being terrifying and depressing.
Nice enough as a children's book. A tad too predictable for me, but very colorful and full of fairytales.
Oh wow, that was a charming book (or probably a novella?)! It was enjoyable and funny throughout and then packed a marvellous punchline.
Wow! This book has bits of Charles Stross in it (as in: secret modern British agency dealing with the supernatural), but at the same time it's totally different. A bit more action oriented, fast-paced, witty, and it never felt like a Laundry knockoff. I'm really interested in where the sequel is going.
(I devoured it in one day, so the mystery might not hold up quite as well if you take time to, y'know, think in between. But I devoured it in one day because it was just. so. good.)
I liked the world building (this was my first Culture novel), but the story pacing was way off. It dragged on, and lots of personal story elementes were fairly predictable.
Wow. I read King's revised version from when he had finished the series, and it's stunning. I need to read the rest. It's … kinda what Firefly is to sci-fi: the fantasy edition, and so much fun, and with wonderful characters, and … wow.
Meh. I kind of expected more (in volume, at least), and the Dumbledore parts reminded me awfully of Kästner in Pünktchen & Anton, where he felt the need to explain lots of stuff, especially the political implications. I think Rowling might have done better to trust her readers to think for themselves.
Uh boy! Pratchett goes to the time and place he is most nerdy about: Early Victorian London.
The book is so charming and wonderful and funny (different humour, maybe even more enjoyable?). It is littered with actual people from that time, both well-known (Charlie and Victoria), and little-known (which makes them even more fascinating). I should have read this one much earlier, and I enjoyed it a lot.
I had seen the (a?) movie and enjoyed it a lot. But the book is horribly classist and misogynistic and eww. It ready a bit like Brave New World without the social criticism. Yeah, the idea is great and mind blowing, but the execution just sucks.
Not quite as brilliant as the first volume in my mind, but still extremely good. Expanding the universe, introducing Susannah and Eddie (boy is he annoying though), and pushing ever onwards.
4.5 – This one was a bit slow, I thought, but it stil pushd the story on briliantly. I loved the play between worlds, and man was Charlie the Choo-Choo creepy.
Oh man, story time! Looking back into Roland's youth made this a tremendous book.
3.5 stars for me, a really, really solid follow-up to a wonderful first part. Excited for the last one.