| Snap Reviews: Discount Armageddon, by Seanan McGuire |
 Snap Reviews: Discount Armageddon, by Seanan McGuire
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Mar. 23rd, 2012 @ 08:31 am 
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Category: Books
Title: Discount Armageddon
Author: Seanan McGuire
Genre: Urban Fantasy
So, I became aware of this book due to the early release of print editions/personal abuse of the author by horrible people kerfuffle. While I regret the misery and pain endured by Seanan McGuire, I'm really rather glad I was prompted to buy the book out of sympathy, because the book is awesome.
Laugh-out-loud funny, in places. Not comedy, just contains wit that cracked me up on more than one occasion, and I am not an easy person to make laugh aloud via fiction. I have read every book Terry Pratchett has published - including the Carpet People, you understand, I'm not citing Strata for my "comparitively obscure, non-Discworld" books here, although obvs I've read that too - and laughed out loud maybe twice. I still enjoy the books, a lot, and appreciate the humour, but generally reading something funny, to myself, doesn't push me far enough from my locked-on-book state to laugh. This did.
It's also a ripping good story with a truly fascinating world setup, one that catches and drags at the imagination. I am in love with the world it presents. I want more of it. (Downside of getting into something at the point where the first book in a series is published: more not yet available.)
I recommend it completely and utterly.
Grade: A+
note: possibly, but I'm not certain, the first A+ in Snap Reviews history.
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| From: | ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) trialia |
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March 23rd, 2012 06:14 am (UTC) |
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Have you read anything else of Seanan's? If not, do. She's one of only a few writers whose works (literary *and* musical) I leap to buy sight unseen, every time. If you haven't, next stop should be either "Rosemary and Rue" (first of the so-far-six Toby Daye novels, urban fantasy/detective series) or "Feed" (post-zombie-apocalypse sociopolitical trilogy with comedy, under the open pseud of Mira Grant, third is out in June).
Seriously, the lady is epic, I loved Discount Armageddon as much as you (I don't rate many books 5 stars on GR), and if this is your first time reading her... go! Go grab! <3
Edited 2012-03-23 06:16 am (UTC)
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March 23rd, 2012 07:46 am (UTC) |
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I haven't, but I'm now seriously considering getting some of her others (by which I mean "am highly likely to get some of her others"). I really love her writing style tremendously.
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