by Peter Gross, Mike Carey
Eh, it's safe to say that I didn't like Inside Man as much as the first volume in this series. I still enjoy the idea, because metafiction is very fascinating to this avid reader. I just had too many moments of trying to figure out what where the writer is going with this book. I feel that this volu...
The ending is evil. Pure evil. :D
This second volume improves vastly on the first, enough to keep me reading. Things are still mysterious but we start getting a better sense of what's going on, and also some interesting new characters.
In 'Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity' Tom Taylor's life changes dramatically. He goes from being a coat-tails riding literary namesake to being a possible new messiah to child wizard loving children and internet geeks everywhere, and suspected murderer. He might also be a fraud, and there might h...
Better than volume 1, though I do find myself wondering which way the writers are going to take their subtext on imagination. Is imagination power and something to be preserved, or something to be quelled - because one thing is clear - the authors' take is definitely black or white - with no grey in...
This post/review is going to be chock full of spoilers, and is really written for those people who have already read the first two collections. For that reason, I want to sum up my overall view and suggestion of The Unwritten now, so if you’re the kind of reader who doesn’t like to know too much ab...
I wasn't sure how I felt about this series after Vol. 1, partly because sometimes it takes time to feel comfortable in complex fictional worlds, but mostly because I wasn't sure where this was going. After Vol. 2, however, even if I don't know specifics, I have a definite feel for this world and the...