Absolutely flavourless. It is edible rather than disgusting, but still – avoid.

I quite liked this as a lip gloss, even though it was a bit sticky when I accidentally got some on my hand. It may even have made my slightly narrower upper lip a teenie tiny bit puffier – or that could have just been the irritant-ingredient tingling making me think that’s what it was doing! It’s a bit weird, having tingly lips!

Had a little bit of an intriguing premise, but the format, writing, characterisation – all just spoiled it. The catch-the-con-of-the-week got dull 2 episodes in, and the possible mysteries were clearly strung out too thin. And, naturally, you just knew there’d be no answers before the show was cancelled. Bah.

Suffered the usual sequel issue: after the build up to the climax of the first volume, restarting with this one was annoyingly slow. I also was on the verge of getting irritated by the love story and politicking over just finding out the answers – until, suddenly I was totally caught up in the story again and finding out so many little ‘ooh!’ bits with yet more mystery being added!

Not as good as the first, but made me reach for the final volume almost before the pages had finished closing on this one!!

I like the second CD, the orchestral score. The first “music from and inspired by”-type disc is really not my cup of tea, but most of it is surprisingly listenable after a few tracks that are nothing more than noise to my tastes!

Really quite a lovely ballistic, tried for the first time from the retro range. However, it’s very strongly lingering on the jasmine scent, which I’m finding gives me a little bit of a headache.

Lemmings for the new millennium, I guess! It’s equally as tough and infuriating at times, too!!

(Although it sort of broke my heart to see a comment on an online walkthrough, “I’ve been stuck for half and hour!” – urm, yeah. I remember getting stuck on a game for months… and not giving up. I’ve totally lost that, too!)

Since when did cutsie children’s stories involve orphans being sold to provide a better standard of living for their remaining family?! o_O The one with the little girl dying was also rather disturbing – not least ’cos I was sitting in a hospital waiting room at the time, and not expecting that. Eeeeep!

Not the strongest season to date. Marnie was an utterly irritating baddie, imo, and I just felt that away from this one plot thread things were apt to just drift a bit. I did laugh at Eric’s character flip, right enough.

Such a joy to go back to the Dark Tower universe (although it’s all Dark Tower universes…!) and meet up with the ka-tet again.

This sits between books 4 and 5 (Wizard and Glass, and Wolves of the Calla) and is a very slight tale in that timeline. Rather, it’s an excuse to let Roland tell a story he was told as a child. While it seemed a little slow to begin with, eventually it does become a nice slice of the DT mythos.

Overall: better than I expected – how often does an author revisit a series, poorly? Rather, this feels like an outtake: it would have spoiled the pace of the main narrative, but it’s still interesting.

Recommended for fans; I can’t agree much with the “this isn’t a bad place to start” comments in the intro.