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A review by tashillia
Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day: And Other Tales of the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard, Nicholas Guy Smith
adventurous
dark
funny
medium-paced
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
It is hard to review parts of series separately, because at some point you are just spending time in familiar company without any need for nitpicking.
I rarely come across short stories that are primarily fun adventures, and it is exactly what these are. A great experience, because I like this kind of thing, Johannes Cabal is one of my favorite characters, and after reading four books and then procrastinating finishing the series for like 2 years, I started missing him a bit.
My favories are, probably, the eponymous "Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day", "A Long Spoon", and "Ouroboros Ouzo", and I'm not entirely with Cabal in "The House of Gears" (he kind of went too far in - we could have gone without "godlike awe", it's creepy), but the adventure is still cool.
Bonus: as usual, my vocabulary is properly enriched (not for long though, not for long)
I rarely come across short stories that are primarily fun adventures, and it is exactly what these are. A great experience, because I like this kind of thing, Johannes Cabal is one of my favorite characters, and after reading four books and then procrastinating finishing the series for like 2 years, I started missing him a bit.
My favories are, probably, the eponymous "Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day", "A Long Spoon", and "Ouroboros Ouzo", and I'm not entirely with Cabal in "The House of Gears" (he kind of went too far in - we could have gone without "godlike awe", it's creepy), but the adventure is still cool.
Bonus: as usual, my vocabulary is properly enriched (not for long though, not for long)