Reviews and Comments

This hotel-set urban fantasy is fun and mostly lighthearted, with characters that kept the read engaging.

This was a genuinely satisfying conclusion to the series, with high stakes, gripping twists, and a enough closure to make the whole experience feel worth it. As wary as I was when I started reading the series, I'm definitely glad I gave it a shot and reinvigorated my appreciation for Huff's writing.

The introduction of a xenophobic human faction and having members of a formerly antagonistic force become prominent in this novel brought new dynamics and intrigue to the series. I worried I'd tire of space military baggage as the series went on, but Huff surprised me by introducing distance from those early books' immersion in military culture.

I hadn't watched the film this novel adapts, so the simple body swap story becoming a much more compelling story of natural disaster and sacrifice was a wonderful surprise.

I read this novel before the penultimate one in the series because it was hard to find a digital copy of that one. This final novel in the long-running series didn't offer all the closure for Skeeve, Aahz, and the others I hoped for, but it was another heartfelt, zany adventure that fits well with everything that came before. Nye did an admirable job maintaining the core strengths of the series while keeping it fresh after Asprin's passing.

This second volume of comics adapting Haruki Murakami's short stories is as fitting as the first. The sometimes uncomfortable and always strange stories work well as comics, with visuals that are weird in just the right amount.

It starts a new subseries, but the continuity of characters and themes in this novel is undeniable. It's a fine jumping on point, but having read the previous books it comes as a welcome reset of the status quo and carries on all the strengths of the series.

I haven't watched the films based on this book, so I read it without many expectations. The body horror and suspense were intense, but the depictions of the women characters undercut the positives in this novel; one antagonist was a disturbing caricature of someone who should have elicited sympathies.

This collection of stories is rooted in folklore, but Matsuura imbues them with a lively, contemporary freshness. Her prose carries the impact of the spoken word roots of the traditional elements of these chilling stories.

This volume felt like a comfortable return to having the gang back together but it didn't measure up to the best in the series. The new characters were fun and the friendships were the heart and highlight of the novel.

This installment brought Sleeve and Aahz into conflict and tested and confirmed the bonds of the core characters of the series. I could see the ending from the very start, but I enjoyed the experience all the same.

The parts of this novel promised something fun. The sentient artifacts could have been a trope that brought some liveliness to the series, but the execution didn't work for me; it felt like the pacing was off and the characters weren't clicking how I'd like.

This novel, a fantasy sendup of education and reality TV, continued to show the fruits of Nye and Asprin's collaboration. This was lively and paced at a good clip. I'd like to imagine Asprin would have been appalled by Trump, who he attributes with one of his trademark fake quotes, after his reality TV career.

This novel, mostly set at a mall, was a fun adventure tangled up with commentary on consumer culture. The expected puns and wacky situations were here and kept fresh by an infusion of new characters and an unusual setting.

The misunderstandings that drove the plot of this story were obvious, but the earnestness of Skeeve and the ridiculous situations he and his friends were thrown into kept this a lively, fun installment.