Ahaha, I have special powers. (Namely, publishers become willing to send you ARCs when you demonstrate a profound lack of a social life a commitment to "grassroots" book reviewing.) Necropolis'll be out on the 17th though.

I still haven't read Time Traveler's Wife although I think my dad mentioned enjoying it. I tend to find that, even more than dialogue, authors try to flesh out characters by long, extended, massive, never-ending, gigantic, piled-on clusterfucks of exposition instead of actually writing action or dialogue. If you're expecting too much, so am I;-)