I can’t believe I actually typed ‘OMG’…as a title…three times!!!

Well, here’s why. Dark Horse has just announced that they will be releasing ‘Serenity: A Shepherd’s Tale’ this November! Finally! Let’s hope it really, really, really pushes through this time.

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Here’s something you don’t see everyday.

ABC has just released the first chapter of Heat Wave, the book Richard Castle was working on in the show’s first season. The show that I’m talking about is, of course, Castle starring the uber-amazing, pee-in-your-pants-funny Nathan Fillion. Since Richard Castle is a fictional writer of fiction (got it? got it?), I wonder who’s the real author.

The book will be sold online starting Sept. 29 ($19.99) but in the meantime, you can download the first 10 chapters from the ABC website.

Castle season two premieres Sept. 21st. I can’t wait!

If I were to describe this book in two words, I’d say it was  “a mind-f**k.”

*Semi-spoilers ahead!!!*

I’ve been itching to read this book for a while now. The plot seemed intriguing and the fact that it had won an award meant, at least to me, that the writing would be above average. I was right about the plot, the writing not so much.

After doing a little bit of research on the book and Tana French, I found out that this was Ms. French’s first novel. The story is narrated in the first person by the main character, Detective Rob Ryan of the Dublin murder squad. This is, I think, were the author went wrong. In the story, Det. Ryan often sounds more like a girl and less like a macho Irish murder detective. Ms. French also likes to pile her character’s thoughts one on top of another by liberally using parentheses, colons, and semi-colons which adds to the general confusion but you kind of get used to the writing style after the first ten chapters. Be that as it may, the book managed to keep me hooked up to the part where they finally got the bad guy to confess to the murder. After that I just felt pi$$ed off because Rob Ryan started acting like a self-important, petulant child. In other words, he acted like an eejit. I was glad he didn’t get the girl in the end.

All in all, I’d say this book is a solid page-turner. Check it out if you’re in the mood for some mystery/suspense. Up next, The Likeness.