I’m not going to make my half Cannonball goal. I tried to power read through Ever After so that I could get through book 12 and reach my Half Cannonball goal, but life got busy and Ever After demanded I pay attention. A lot of gargoyles came to roost and Rachel had more than the usual disaster to sort out. There is a psychotic demon who wants her dead and he wants to kill the Ever After and everyone in it and then dominate Reality with the […]
And now the humans are doing human things :(
This is the 10th book of a 13 book series. Don’t start here. Spoilers. Yadda,yadda. Shit got real and the first half or so of this book was tough for me to get through. I’m glad I’m reading it so close to the end of the year, because I might have picked up something else. Here’s what’s tough for me – torture and cruelty. Fighting kinds of violence don’t bother me much, but torture and deliberate cruelty do. To be fair, there are only […]
Once you go dragon, you wish for a wagon
Make 2015 the year that you introduce yourself to Ken Scholes. One of the beauties of the internet and social media is that you intersect with people you will probably never meet in person and then they introduce you to things you might not have otherwise seen. Many of my favorite things have come to me this way. Through a Facebook friend whom I may never meet in person, I read “If Dragon’s Mass Eve Be Cold and Clear.” I wrote a review and as […]
The Gift of The Magi, Zombies, and the Worst Meet Cute Ever
Last year, Christopher Moore’s Lamb was one of my favorite books of the year. Friendly Pajiban, Uriah_Creep, recommended I follow it up with The Stupidest Angel. I did buy and read The Stupidest Angel last year, but at the same time I came down with some sort of hideous illness that made me wish I would die, so it didn’t get reviewed. I vowed to re-read it and review it this year during the seasonally appropriate few days before Christmas. The Stupidest Angel is no […]
Yeah, I was fine. F*cked in Extreme, as Ivy would say.
Up to now I’ve been reviewing The Hollows series in chunks, because they’ve been so hard to put down, and have these multi book arcs that made made 3 or 4 book clusters make sense. But, book 9, Pale Demon, is such a game changer that I’m going to review it on it’s own, and Black Magic Sanction will have to go unreviewed. If you haven’t read the previous 8 books, don’t start here. Spoilers! When Pale Demon opens, Rachel has been shunned by the […]
The Santaman came reeking of love into this place and we did not know him.
“If Dragon’s Mass Eve be Cold and Clear” is a short story set in the future, or on another world. I came across it a few weeks ago when a Facebook friend shared it on her wall, and it has stuck with me. I haven’t read anything else by the author, so this may or may not be part of a larger world. I hope to find out in the coming year. There’s no exposition, so I was forced to piece the world together. It’s […]