Book review correction & 2015 book

Correction: I feel silly for having gotten this wrong, but I actually mis-remembered about why I took the Thistle-Chaser name. In my review, I wrote that I liked the name even though I didn't like the character, but the next day I realized that was wrong: I took the name based on the first book, when Thistle-Chaser was a cub/unknown character. It was only in the third book where we learned about her character that I discovered I didn't like her much. How did I forget? I took the name in the early 90s, so it was a long time back!

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Obsidian Sky by Julius St. Clair
Rating: Hated (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



I started out very excited about this book. I have a bunch of books on my Kindle, and sometimes one sits there so long that I forget everything about it, other than I was interested enough to buy it. I love going in a book blind like that. Was Obsidian Sky YA or adult? SciFi, fantasy? Set in space? I had no idea! Even the cover gave no hint! (Okay, here in the post you can see a sword in it, but on my kindle the cover is about an inch by an inch in size.)

Turns out it's YA dystopian. That would be fine, I like those, except this one had way too many issues. I only got maybe 4% into the book, but in that time:

- 'Human' was spelled wrong multiple times ('humin').
- The plot made just no sense. A meteor hit the earth, destroyed half the planet and most of the people, and somehow that made all future people born with 1-3 wishes that would come true. The number of wishes they got appeared as a tattoo on their arm, and the tattoo vanished after they made a wish. The wish could be anything, some people used a wish to create a village, and another made a wish to have the village always be safe. (So... why did no one wish for the world to be fixed?)
- The wishes were called Yen, so you'd get sentences like "He was born with three Yen" and "She valued her Yen". I couldn't help but read that as the Japanese money.

More than those things, it was just so by-the-numbers YA dystopia. Average writing, bad editing, unoriginal plot.

Two WTF? books with a side of Batman vs Superman XXX

My to read pile is getting "low" (only ten pages of books on my Kindle, six books per page), so I decided I could let myself look for some new ones. Oh the number of wacky books out there.

- The Green Kangaroos by Jessica McHugh
Overview: Perry Samson loves drugs. He’ll take what he can get, but raw atlys is his passion. Shot hard and fast into his testicles, atlys helps him forget that he lives in an abandoned Baltimore school...

- This Shifter Squad series, which has laughably bad covers:


And for the porn: I love these comic book movie porn spoofs. This is just the trailer for one, and work safe (no naked bits, no sex). It's quite amusing, and has an ending more serious than I would have expected from even a non-spoof:

Hopefully the full movie will be around online somewhere, like most of these porn comic book spoof movies are (official free online releases, not pirated). I suspect it will be quite amusing. (The DVD is even offering a non-sex version of it!)