Burning Alive by Shannon Butcher

I am a big fan of Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series, the first book being The Furies of Caulderon. As I was perusing his website the other day looking for the release date of his sixth and final book in the series, I stumbled across his wife's work who is also an author. Mrs. Butcher had an excerpt of her book online titled Burning Alive and so I did as any faithful butcher fan would do. I read it. It was quite a long excerpt and I thoroughly enjoyed it. After the long excerpt was finished, the hook was set, and I had to have more. I found out that the kindle has an iphone/IPT app (IPT is tech junkie jargon for ipod touch) and so I downloaded it. I bought the book on the ipod touch, which was only a couple of bucks due to a sale, and proceeded to read it on my ipod touch. Well, it is definitely no like reading a good old fashioned paperback.

The book was good in the post apocalyptic sense. It had a great beginning and Mrs. Butcher is a great writer. My only gripe was the over-explicit sex scenes. There were only two but that was quite enough for me. I've read a lot of fiction including Dune, Sword of Truth series, Wheel of time, and pretty much any other good series out there and I'm not opposed to the "love scenes" provided they aren't too explicit.

In any event, the book was good and it left me wanting to read the next one in the series. However, as I read another excerpt of the second book, it appears that the next book will not be featuring the two main characters in the first book, but rather it will focus on another very minor character that was briefly introduced in the first book. Bah!

I probably won't read the second one due to the simple fact that I don't want to start over with some other characters in the same story.

Anyway, I'm looking for any good scifi/fantasy book series that I have not delved into yet. Any suggestions?

The Christening!

chris⋅ten⋅ing

[kris-uh-ning, kris-ning]

Use christening in a Sentence

–noun

1. the ceremony of baptism, esp. as accompanied by the giving of a name to a child.

2. a public ceremony in which a new ship is formally named and launched.

3. an act or instance of naming or dedicating something new.

As this is the first post of my first blog (…woohoo…) I thoght it appropriate to start it off with a bit of definitiveness. Yes, definitiveness is a word and yes, to answer your second question, all the definitions of christening apply to this blog…Okay so maybe I was just going for the third one considering this is not my child nor have I any knowledge of the ceremonies surrounding the lauching of a ship/boat. I’ll stick with the third definition. “Reflection” because we live in a country in which slow is unproductive and smelling the flower is keeping the next person in line waiting which is unacceptable. “Reflections” because too much time is being spent doing and too little time contemplating. “Reflections” because this is not a blog for you, but for me. A little niche where I can put into words a few of the thoughts running through my mind. “Reflections” because maybe the title itself will remind me to slow down, take a breath, and focus on lasting things.