Mythic Writers Blog

Oops! Missed a day, didn’t I? I have an excellent excuse—I was reading. I had a few days off from work, giving myself a nice, four-day weekend, and yesterday was reading day.

I finally had the chance to finish the last 150 or so pages of Christopher Golden’s The Myth Hunters which I had set aside for awhile to get some other reading done.

Fantastic book! (Of course that pun was intended.) It is somehow intricate and deep and yet still a quick and easy read. I love the crossing back and forth between our normal world and the world of legend (in the book, the living legends only use the word “myth” as an insult against one another). And since we get most of our information about the otherworld from the perspective of our modern American protagonist, we get the full impact of the wonder and sometimes horror of the land of the legends.

I was half excited and half frustrated to find that there are two—yes, two—sequels to Myth Hunters. The Borderkind and The Lost Ones. My summer reading list continues to grow…

I rounded out the day of reading by starting and finishing Greywalker by Kat Richardson. Completely different from Myth Hunters and generally a really good time. I enjoyed it quite a lot, loved the idea of the Grey (you’ll just have to read it, won’t you?), and now I have to go get the sequel, Poltergeist. The book was a fun read, plus the author briefly touches on an interesting aspect of vampiric feeding that I’d like to know more about.  So I will definitely be keeping an eye out for more of these.

So that’s what I did on my mid-spring, mini-vacation. I’ll be sure to give opinions on the other books in the two series as I read them—assuming I can make myself put them down long enough to get to the keyboard!