A Fond Farewell

Riding off into the sunset on the back of a dragon, Anne McCaffrey has passed on. She'll be missed.

The Final Twist In The Story

Fool me once, shame on me, Jeffery Deaver. Fool me twice...well, you won't. I'm sorry, I've enjoyed many of your fine (past) yarns, but I'm done with you.

The Cold Moon story centered around a "right wing militia" that hires a top-tier hitman to blow up a military awards ceremony was bad enough. Because, as we all know, there ain't nuttin' dem rural conservatives hates more'n the American military! Although, to be fair, it's hard to exactly quantify where it stands in the mind of Mr. Deaver. I wonder how he would rank the elements he seems to see in "right wing militia"s. Is it:

* hatred of servicemen/women and a desire to see them blown up?
* beating women?
* in-your-face ignorance and mindless following?
* your basic, old fashioned child molestation?

All good choices, Mr. Deaver, and you clearly manage to shoehorn them all in!

Roadside Crosses and, surprise!, the seemingly conservative blogger behind it all.

But Edge pushed me over it, guaranteeing that I'll not be reading your work anymore. I mean...are you kidding? The bad guy is a prominent, indeed leading, conservative Republican senator that, oh gee, just happens to be:

* willing to abduct and torture teenage girls, or hiring people to do it, and, oh yeah, killing them.
* a flaming hypocrite.
* in cahoots with, oh gee! the "biggest conservative PAC" whose head happens to, oh gee! be willing to help you out with the above!
* and did I happen to mention that he's also a child molester that does all the above so he doesn't get caught molesting teenage girls?

Feh, Mr. Deaver. That clever mind and this is what you come up with? Feh.