Bustin' by Minda Webber would like to be a light-hearted, wisecracking supernatural romance, but it fails. Heroine Sam, supposedly an exterminator of paranormal pests, suffers from a tendency to rant, which makes her seem unhinged and prejudiced, rather than charmingly eccentric. The setting suffers from gratuitous alliteration, unimaginative pop-culture puns and a cast of secondaries who compete with each other to see who can be the quirkiest. I hear that Sam exterminates ghosts [one of which is a soup-can-painting spirit named Andy *GET IT hah hah hah winkwink nudgenudge*] for a vampire prince, meanwhile falling in love with a werewolf, but I put the book down before the love interest arrived. As a native Vermonter, I could not forgive Webber for setting a book in Vermont and refusing to describe the state in any remotely convincing detail.
Jul. 4th, 2008
Cycler by Lauren Mclaughlin
Jul. 4th, 2008 08:31 pmGotta read this. It has an inherently interesting premise, about a high school girl who changes into a boy for a few days every month. It's also a YA book, which piques my curiosity even more.
Another book to read
Jul. 4th, 2008 08:36 pmBreeds of Man by F.M. Busby about the development of cyclical sex-switching after destruction of human population by the AIDS virus.