Pros: An amazing main character and two very excellent supporting characters. I want to be friends with these people. A completely insane story that makes me want to write clichés about rollercoasters. (Nonstop thrill ride! Hold on tight! Etc.!) Funny stuff. Gross stuff. Surprisingly thought-provoking stuff. A palpable sense of dread during the appropriate suspensey parts, and an urge to stomp around heroically during the ‘frak yeah!’ parts. An ending that manages to not tie up everything in a neat little bow, but still be […]
A germ of a story, surrounded by filler
This story was originally two pages in Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur, expanded into a “what if these two characters actually crossed paths” tale. Mary Stewart has obviously proved her mettle with her line of Arthurian classics, but this one feels like a short story expanded into a movie. Get ready for some filler. Alexander is a prince whose father was murdered by his brother when he was a baby. His mother spirits him away, vowing to tell him everything when he’s of age so […]
Another great book about a librarian
My mother reads the ends of books first. To me, this has always seemed like an enormous sin
Tried to swear off young adult fiction; failed
I can
A swashbuckling regency romance
England and Spain are squabbling. When a Spanish captain sees the notorious English pirate El Beauvallet
In need of some trimming and a new ending
I picked this up because I remember my teenage self enjoying the movie (or at least Jeff Goldblum and Jeremy Sisto). That movie came out in 1995, and the book wasn