I've been reading Wormwood, G. P, Taylor's second novel released in the U.S., and it's awsome! I liked Shadowmancer, but Wormwood is, in my opinion, exponentially better than Shadowmancer. Here's an exerpt from one of my favorite parts:
The angel stood behind the creature, a radiant smile fixed across his face. "What joy!" he said as he fumbled in his pocket. "It never expected that when it took hold of you. I thought it would have bitten off your head straightaway, but thankfully you intrigued the beast and it gave me time." Abram took out a bobbin of red cord with which he began to tie the creatures hands and feet.
"Is it dead?" Blake asked stepping away from the trussed creature. "What did you do?"
"It is not dead as you would know, but it will be of no trouble to us for some time. As for what I did, all I can say is that I am thankful to an Abaris crystal and a stink hole in the back end of the Diakka. I don't think that it would ever have thought that something like that would happen. It brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it."
"You shoved an exploding crystal up the creature's --"
"Yes," Abram interrupted. "It was such an obvious place. There was no time for second thoughts-- it was the creature or you."
"Then I am thankful for your physiological understanding of demonic anatomy," Blake replied as he looked at the writhing creature rolling in the dust.
That was a great book. I'm looking foward to reading his next novel, Tersias.
2005 has been a fair year so far. I kind of like Human Growth And Developement, and I have it at 11:00am, Mondays and Wednedays, which means I can stay up fairly late still. I've put in applications at Marshall County and Guntersville school boards to be a substitute teacher (ya happy now, Lindsay?;P), so work should be interesting.
--Robert