Category: How’s This Book?

  • Anansi Boys: Songs and Stories and Spiders

    How long has it been since we’ve covered a Gaiman novel? Feels like it’s been a while. It’s been very refreshing to come back to his work; I’ve needed something truly weird and fun recently. Anansi Boys is a great case of everything I love about Neil Gaiman’s work. It takes a world grounded in…

  • Travel By Bullet: Crypto Crime!

    Here we are again with the Dispatcher series. What weird pseudo-murder mystery do we have in store for us this time? Oh… it’s about… crypto currency. Fun. When the world is struck by the global pandemic, Tony Valdez must give up his opportunity to work with the police force and return to his work as…

  • The Lost Metal: End of the Second Era

    *Spoilers for The Lost Metal ahead. If you haven’t read it yet, proceed with caution.* Era two of Mistborn has been an interesting reading experience. One full of wild ups and downs. It’s expanded upon the first series in some unique, sometimes downright bizarre ways. And now we reach the end. The fourth and final…

  • Poirot Mysteries: The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge

    Poirot Mysteries: The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge

    Another day, another murder. How Poirot does this without his soul withering away, I’ll never know. A wealthy man is murdered in his nephew’s lodge at the hands of a mysterious bearded stranger. Distraught, the nephew seeks Poirot’s aid in the case. Problem is, the great detective is bedridden with influenza! Can Hastings handle this…

  • At the Mountains of Madness: Captivating Yet Dull

    Everyone makes fun of H.P. Lovecraft for his use of ‘it was too horrible to describe.’ And honestly, I feel that’s unfair. The man was very descriptive. Sometimes too descriptive. If you’re gonna mock him for anything, it should be the racism. The story focuses on William Dyer, a professor at Arkham’s Miskatonic University as…