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Sarah's Library

I read pretty much anything, from fantasy (City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett) to romance (Bared to You by Sylvia Day) to classics (Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad).  The only genres I don't read are self-help and comic books/graphic novels.

Currently reading

The Last Honeytrap
Louise Lee
Progress: 100/346 pages
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

The Marching Dead (Marius don Hellespont, #2) by Lee Battersby

The Marching Dead - Lee Battersby

23/12 - I can't believe it's been over a year since I read The Corpse-Rat King (I also can't believe it's only a day till Christmas, but that's another story). When I saw this at the library I was sure I'd read the first book in the series earlier this year, thank goodness for GR and BL or I'd always be under-estimating how many months/years had passed since my last interaction with a particular series or author.

Not quite as hilarious a beginning as The Corpse-Rat King, but I am loving not-dead-enough Granny. She looks like she could provide a similar level of hilarity as I found in the first book. To be continued...

 

24/12 - I still don't get how this 'being dead' works in this world. If you don't need to breathe, eat, drink, sleep, poop, and you are 'dead' why on earth do you feel any pain? I mean, earlier in the book Granny stuck her hand inside Marius' fatal sword wound a number of times, and the only reason Marius protested was because it was weird and disgusting to see a hand stuck in his chest, not because it hurt or anything like that. So why now, does having every bone in his body broken cause another dead man to experience excruciating pain? It doesn't make any sense. To be continued...

 

27/12 - After a promising beginning, partially spurred on by my own expectations from the first book, I was a little disappointed with the middle and end of The Marching Dead. It just wasn't quite as funny as The Corpse-Rat King, and considering my thoughts on how high (or low, depending how you look at it) the bar was set with that book that's saying something. I mentioned loving Granny when I first started reviewing? She didn't get nearly enough one-liners and then got kidnapped for a chunk near the middle. She was definitely an underutilised character who could have provided a lot more laughs if given the chance. I really do hope, and think it would be right if, this is the last book in the series. This wasn't as good as The Corpse-Rat King and I believe that if a third book was written it would be even less funny, below three stars. Battersby should quit while he's (sort of) ahead.