Reading Roundup: The 16th week of 2025
Despite a rough week, two new books and more fanfiction.
As promised, not a lot this week. our holiday ended in a spectacular night of the wife being very ill indeed. Not a joyful experience. Still, onward!
4 stars to Wolf Hunt, by Jeff Strand
Book Description:
"Two small-time thugs are hired to transport a caged werewolf cross-country. But when the werewolf escapes, their lives are on the line if they can't find the lycanthrope and get the beast back in his cage."
My Thoughts:
" I pick up a Strand knowing exactly what I'm going to get, and again, not disappointed here. Nothing overly surprising is just what you want from these silly little horrors that nonetheless keep me on the edge of my seat."
This Book: has 336 pages, a community rating of 4.07 and was first published in 2010.
3 stars to DEATHWORLD # 1-4 complete story (DEATHWORLD (1990 ADVENTURE)), by HARRY HARRISON John Holland
Book Description:
"HARRY HARRISON COMICS ADAPTATION! Contains Issue #'s 1-4 COMPLETE 4-ISSUE MINI-SERIES! WELCOME TO THE PLANET PYRRUS - THE 'DEATHWORLD"! "
My Thoughts:
" I'd read the first few of these a while ago but not the final one, so it was nice to revisit and refresh. The sexism is unsurprising and the similarities to slippery Jim hard to miss, but for a thing of its day it's exactly as one would expect."
This Book: has a community rating of 3.
Things not on Goodreads or reread
Training and confrontations, by DRT.
So yes, having found an old fanfic archive, naturally the next step was to pick up more I was familiar with from years ago. I'd remembered enjoying Training and Confrontations, although the parallel world thing played a much larger role in my memory than the actual story, and I had conflated the breast milk potion with a completely different story in my head and was surprised to see it here.
harry potter and the Burden of Becoming, by caduceus.
I'd not read this one before, but it was marked as complete so I thought I'd try it. it annoyed me much of the way through, and although I finished it I can't recommend it for any sort of sensible structure. Harry's emotions were just all over the place (yes, partly the story, but the writing style really didn't help). it annoys me when an author works their name into the story for some reason and that happened here, and of course, the ending is just utterly silly. All that said, I may well pick up the sequel because even bad fanfiction has a certain allure sometimes.