It’s been almost a year since I last posted anything here. Truth is, WordPress glitched and I couldn’t get to my Dashboard for several months, and then I stopped trying and eventually just… forgot about it. I wandered back over today and did the blogger equivalent of “turning it off and on again” and voila, … More Hey… what happened??
Once more, I am delightfully creeped out by a T. Kingfisher book. Maybe a little more on the creeped out side than delighted this time around, but I’m counting that as a good thing in a horror book. I’ll say again that I am a horror lightweight, so your mileage may vary, but I personally … More Review – The Hollow Places
This is one of those rare books that I did not want to finish, because I was enjoying it so much. Deeply satisfying and fantastically rich all the way through, I cannot recommend this one enough. What starts out as a retelling of Rumplestiltskin evolves into a beautifully told story of love and courage and … More Review – Spinning Silver
5 stars on Goodreads, 4.5 in my mind Continuing the Emperor’s Edge series, this was a fun, action-packed installment that I really enjoyed, but with a major cliffhanger ending in more ways than one. Plot, character, relationships, which genre this series actually fits under… a lot of ways. Lindsay Buroker is a fast author, though, … More Review – Conspiracy
One of my pirate research books, this one was a very informative read that answered several questions I had about the daily lives of pirates, most of them mundane questions like “what did Golden Age pirates do when they WEREN’T plundering ships?” It doesn’t provide as much of a historical context as The Pirate World … More Review – Under the Black Flag
This is another fun installment in the Monster Haven series, but I wasn’t as enthralled with it as I was the first two. It might’ve been too much fun in some ways, with characters (especially Zoey) being snarky instead of proactive. We see a lot of how much Zoey cares for the Hidden that come … More Review – Fairies in My Fireplace
This book started slow for me and took a while to get into the main plot again, but it was a wild, heart-wrenching ride. Laia and Helene have excellent arcs, and I loved spending more time with these characters. Elias, though… I wanted to smack him on the upside of the head a few times … More Review – A Reaper at the Gates
I’m honestly shocked that I didn’t have this book in my life at a much younger age. Greek gods? Legends and monsters? Plot twists and snarky humor built around mythology? Honestly, if it had ticked any more boxes, I think I would’ve written this book off as simply too good to be true, and refused … More Review – The Lightning Thief
Whew, what a cool and captivating book. It was nice to read a fully contained story from McGuire, but make no mistake, the scope is sweeping and the stakes are high. How could they not be when a pair of siblings are learning how to manipulate time? There’s a lot of heartbreak in this book, … More Review – Middlegame
3 stars on Goodreads, 2.5 in my mind Hear me out before you grab your torches and pitchforks. So, this was an interesting read. Mostly because I really wasn’t that into it for the first 90% of the volume. The art style feels like standard sketchy comic style that, honestly, I have never really enjoyed. … More Review – The Sandman, Vol. 1
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