A Few Book Notes

I've read some interesting books this last few weeks.  The novel Ghostman by Roger Hobbs was very well written, and even though I thought I might not connect to the main character who is a career criminal, I found myself totally sucked into the plot and really liked the book.  But the author only graduated from college two years ago.  Ouch!  It's an amazing book for an early twenty-year-old and he's already being compared to other major writers.  So now I'm wondering how fast he can write and I'm hoping he will cotinue the adventures of his main character.

Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night are the first two books of a trilogy by Deborah Harkness.  Her main character is a reluctant witch and eager historian.  I actually picked up the second book in the series and couldn't get into it.  I searched out the first book and found I needed that back material to make a successful transition into the second novel. I'm looking forward to the final book of the trilogy.

I'm currently trying to read Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell who also wrote Swamplandia.  I may not finish it or may speed read it to see where it's going.  There's something about the style of writing and characters that aren't my interest, but it's certainly well written and the characters are well developed.  I just don't like them.  And if a vampire story can be realistic, this one is.  That's probably my problem as I'm a Twilight geek; I like my vampires romantic.