Destiny! Destiny! No escaping that for me!

July is killing me. Between a long Independence Day trip, Comic-Con, and a family vacation next week, I'm just not around much this month and I apologize. Next month should be less hectic.

Something I wanted to post before Comic-Con was a link to Bookgasm's review of Rogue Angel: Destiny by Alex Archer. I doubt I would've picked it up from the cover alone. Looks like a book about a fallen angel and the Heaven vs. Hell on Earth thing is played out. Fortunately (and this is going to be weird to say), Rogue Angel seems to be ripping off Lara Croft more than Neil Gaiman.

Now, I'd rather read actual Gaiman than Tomb Raider any day. But if we're talking about derivative material, I'm much more interested in a story about a hot motorcycle-riding treasure hunter fighting robed assassins in foreign locales over the sword of Joan of Arc than I am in something by an author who's trying to imitate the inimitable.

I'm a little concerned about the hot treasure hunter's ability to will the sword to appear and disappear in her hands, but I'm going to hope that that's adequately explained in the book and that the Rogue Angel title doesn't mean that our heroine is somehow actually a magically powered angel and just doesn't know it. 'Cause then we're back in Gaiman-rip-off territory again.