trashy summer fiction, part two

This week I read Magic Street by Orson Scott Card. Very disappointing. Sad, but true.
He should never have tried to write about a black community. That was just all kinds of bad. Also, portraying some fey as evil and some as good misses the point that he makes himself, which is that they're all very amoral and simply don't care.

And then last night and today I read Sandstorm by James Rollins. OMG the drek. Oh the drek. Painful drek. It had some similarities to Katherine Neville's The Eight but was way, way less cool. ( mild spoilers, shouldn't concern you much )

So I think the overall message of the book is that we should all be gender traitors, because women's power is dangerous and BAD. If I had ended the book, it would have been done much differently.

Grrrr...