Running with the Demon by Terry Brooks

Terry Brooks avoided some of the common mistakes with novels like this, but not all. I don't know why editors let so much slide with repetition. The book should have been 100 pages less than it was. We're not getting paid by the word anymore, Dickens. Brooks vocabulary and descriptions were adequate, as was the story itself. I liked the female protagonist and the classic battle between good and evil (Void and the Word) was redone well enough to keep me interested. So why didn't the book catch me in the way it was supposed to? Maybe I read too much. It felt like a story being written.

3.25/5

Flight by Sherman Alexie

I read Flight right before I read Reservation Blues. It's a pretty bold move to kill your main character in the first 50 pages and I wasn't sure about it but he pulled it off in the end.

4.5/5 stars

Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie

Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie began differently than most of his books. It followed a couple people from the reservation who obtained a magical guitar and so they started a band. The band was mildly successful, failing at the last minute like so many plots of Alexi's. It was heart wrenching and it taught me a lot I didn't know about reservation life like HUD housing, commodity food, etc. I am glad I read it but it wasn't the best book I've read by him so far.