Have you ever started on book two or three (or later) of a series that doesn’t sand alone well or at all? If it’s a good series, you enjoy the book, but you spend a lot of the time confused, because there are references to things that happened earlier in the series and you have no idea what those things are. That’s how I felt when reading The Riddle-Master of Hed, despite the fact that it was the first book in the series.
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I have to start by pointing out that the title A Short History of Nearly Everything is rather misleading. Really this book is “A Short History of the Major Scientific Advances Made in Human History as well as What is Known About the Origins of Our Solar System, Life On Earth, and Human Beings,” but that is a rather long and awkward title. I suppose that A Short History of Nearly Everything works much better, but I do feel compelled to point out that “Nearly Everything” encompasses a lot more than is covered in this book.
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Practical Demonkeeping is the story of Catch, a demon, Travis, his “master” who desperately wants to get rid of him, and the delightfully messed up residents of Pine Cove, California, the place where Travis thinks he might be able to rid himself of Catch. Pine Cove, however, is not the idyllic town that it seems at first glance, and the resulting clash is quite amusing.
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At the end of the first book in The Secret Texts series, I was completely engrossed and couldn’t wait to find out what happened next. At the end of Vengeance of Dragons, I was still interested, but I didn’t feel as though I had to rush out and grab the third book. Now, I’m sure that’s partly because I had book three sitting not five feet away from me, on the bedside table, but I didn’t really think that I would have felt as though I had to rush out even if I hadn’t had the next book in my possession.
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