The Koala of Death - Betty Webb (Gunn Zoo Mystery, Bk 2)

31 December 2015

I got this book for my mother as a Christmas gift last year. She read it and enjoyed it, so when I went home to visit for Christmas, I read it too.
It is an interesting idea to have the main characters be zoo staff. It gives a glimpse into a career that few people think about, but that's about the end of the parts I thought were outstanding and worth mentioning. The story itself was mediocre. The characters were colorful, but the flow was lacking. Overall, I would say this book simply wasn't intense enough for my preference. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone, other than maybe my mother, who has already read it.

The Wind Through the Keyhole - Stephen King (Dark Tower Series, Bk 4.5)

1 December 2015
A story in a story in a story, seriously King, what are you doing? I suspected this was what he would do, but still..... Roland n' crew are still on the way to the dark tower. They get him to tell a story about his younger self, in which his younger self tells a story to another boy. It's like Inception, you just keep going deeper and when you emerge from one, you must stop and consider how many more you must surface from.
Despite this, I actually really enjoy both stories in this book, but I would have been perfectly content if they had been separate instead of embedded inside each other.