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Finished Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor. Liked it, but found the dialog—who was speaking what—a bit difficult to follow at times. The author seems to have a real aversion to the words "he said" and "she said", preferring instead to let the action and content dictate who is speaking. The trouble is, for me, anyway, that the action and content in her book aren't always good enough guides.
I also finished Hal Spacejock: Big Bang by Simon Haynes. This was another pleasurable excursion into the madcap space adventures of Hal Spacejock, part-time hero, part-time con-man, and full time goofball perpetually ready for the next meal. This book was published in serial form, and while I have no problem with that, what I didn't like was that there was way too much time between the ten installments, especially between parts nine and ten. The original idea was to publish each installment 7-10 days apart, as I recall, and that's the way it started off, but toward the end, the length between installments steadily increased. Part Nine was published on September 7, 2013, and Part Ten wasn't released until March 7, 2014. He states on his website that he soon plans to begin publishing Force of Nature (Harriet Walsh book #1) as a serial. Harriet Walsh is a spinoff of the Spacejock series and an enjoyable character in her own right, so I plan to read it, but I think I'm done with his serials. I'll wait until the book is complete. I realize that in life things happen, but for a serial, six months is just too long to wait between installments.
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