This book paws through the Norse pantheon with eager enthusiasm. It also has a good overall plot--how can we stop the end of the world, when it has been prophesied? And a lady who's supposed to be sexy and a good fighter (note cover). But it rings very hollow. The playing with myth was really the...
Middle schooler Thatcher Hill goes to live with his uncle in a small seaside town in California for the summer. His job is to take care of odd objects at the Museum of Curiosities, which includes a mysterious shrunken head in a box. A young girl steals this mysterious object from the museum and t...
The truck belonged to Faith, the café owner. She’d given Daniel and Sam jobs and a good bargain on the trailer and had generally been kind and decent to them, and Daniel stole her truck because they needed a more reliable vehicle than their own limping junker. He’d left three thousand crowns in t...
He couldn’t see anything through the stifling hot bag. “On your feet, human ape,” said one of them. When Fisher didn’t comply right away, he got poked by a stick in the ribs. Electricity jolted him with a loud snap. Fisher got to one knee, then stood. “Zapper …?” “Zapper is not here,” said the vo...
The muscle-slabs who’d bagged him at Farmers Market cut off their conversation about last night’s Angels-Padres game and tried to find something to do with their bandaged hands. “No hard feelings, guys,” Daniel said. And he meant it. He didn’t regret kraken-burning them, but they’d only been foll...