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Henkka Laukka reviewed Blood rites by Jim Butcher (The Dresden files ;)

Review of 'Blood rites' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

Blood Rites, the sixth book of Dresden Files was, in a larger scale, a disappointment. Badly edited and at times really boring, inconsistent and predictable the book left much more to desire in terms of quality.

What saved the experience for me was the fact that despite the shallowness of the book and the story now told, the foundation that Harry Dresden is build upon got immensely deeper, better, stronger and more complex with the twists and turns that this subpar installation offered.

There seem to be atleast two stories at a time happening in these books and the more important one, the one that continues from one book to the other, was developing well over Blood Rites. So well infact that I'm confident that the next parts will have lots to offer for me.

And I'm looking forward to that!

Henkka Laukka reviewed Death Masks by Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher: Death Masks (Paperback, 2005, Orbit Books)

Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing professional wizard, is hired by a mysterious priest to find …

Review of 'Death Masks' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

Jim Butcher is i my opinion one of the best story tellers of our time. Period.

Death Masks is a novel that continues the story of Harry Dresden and it does it perfectly. Fast paced and full of suspense the words on the pages of this novel flow through your eyes and into your mind, leaving a permanent impression of awe and a longing to get the next Dresden Files novel into your craving hands immediately.

Highly recommended to everyone. Ever.

Henkka Laukka rated Cold Days Dresden Files: 5 stars

Jim Butcher: Cold Days

Dresden Files (2013, Little, Brown Book Group)

Cold Days Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

Henkka Laukka reviewed The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling

J. K. Rowling: The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover, 2012, Kodansha)

Review of 'The Casual Vacancy' on 'Storygraph'

2 stars

Tragic story of a moment of grief and a resulting war between the people of Pagford. The ever struggling people of this small English town are full of envy against each other, and this envy is ready to burst and engulf all of them amidst the resulting chaos. They are weak, vulnerable and, to put it nicely, assholes.

The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowlings take on adult literature, and though it is an 'OK, got nothing better to do, so let's read this thing!'-kind of a story, it's not a really good one. I feel like she tried to squeeze a massive and epic battle of wills into too little space and the resulting chaos was not a good read for me. There were constantly too many irons hot, and it bothered me to no end. Complex, too complex, I kept thinking that it's just the language barrier that's the …

Tragic story of a moment of grief and a resulting war between the people of Pagford. The ever struggling people of this small English town are full of envy against each other, and this envy is ready to burst and engulf all of them amidst the resulting chaos. They are weak, vulnerable and, to put it nicely, assholes.

The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowlings take on adult literature, and though it is an 'OK, got nothing better to do, so let's read this thing!'-kind of a story, it's not a really good one. I feel like she tried to squeeze a massive and epic battle of wills into too little space and the resulting chaos was not a good read for me. There were constantly too many irons hot, and it bothered me to no end. Complex, too complex, I kept thinking that it's just the language barrier that's the problem, but come on. Nope.

And the sex scenes, oh boy, let me tell you about the sex scenes. They're horrible. They're meaningless. It's like every man in Pagford is constantly ready, immediately hard no matter how intoxicated, cums immediately with no visible or real results when the penetration occurs, and the women are like mindles and numb zombies who don't feel anything. Just lying there. Thinking boy bands and shit. No. No more.

There's some good to the story though. The ending, when all that was so carefully crafted and created turns to shit and pours on the egoistic shithole known as Pagford, filling the streets and valleys to the brim with shit, and having the pieces of shit residential assholes float to the surface: That's when the story gets good. Sadly this doesn't happen until the very end so it's kind of too late at that point.

Nice try J.K. Rowling, but I didn't really like it.

Henkka Laukka reviewed Mistborn: The Final Empire - Leather Bound and SIGNED 10th Anniversary Edition by Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson: Mistborn: The Final Empire - Leather Bound and SIGNED 10th Anniversary Edition (2016, Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC)

What if the whole world were a dead, blasted wasteland?

Mistborn For a thousand years …

Review of 'Mistborn: The Final Empire - Leather Bound and SIGNED 10th Anniversary Edition' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

Surprisingly good. There were some parts when the story didn't seem to go nowhere, but in the end all the strings tied up to an intriquing knot of a story that left many haunting questions open for the future parts. Recommended.

Henkka Laukka rated Summer Knight: 4 stars

Jim Butcher: Summer Knight (Paperback, 2011, imusti, Orbit)

Summer Knight by Jim Butcher

Ever since his girlfriend left town to deal with her newly acquired taste for blood, Harry Dresden has been down …

Henkka Laukka reviewed Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson

Jon Ronson: Psychopath Test (Hardcover, 2011, Picador USA)

Review of 'Psychopath Test' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

A masterpiece. Jon Ronsons The Psychopath Test got me thinking about the complexity of the human mind.

Ronson takes us behind the scenes of the modern "Madness industry"; pharmaceuticals, psychologists, insane asylums, how it all came to be and why.

Recommended to everyone who wants to know why some people are afflicted by psychopathy, excessive anxiousness, schizophrenia or any other mental ilness.