Kit Rocha’s Beyond series deals in the lives and loves of a bisexual love army fighting back against capitalist oppressors after the fall of our current civilization. The Gideon’s Riders series is a successor series to the Beyond Series. They are fun, quick reads and they are reliable (Which is actually really important in romance readership.) I enjoyed the Beyond books, so I started in on Gideon’s. This is the second book about Gideon’s Riders, a fighting force of people who have committed to give […]
Good in little bites
Charlotte Stein is a must read for me. So I grabbed this when Kindle told me it was available (all hail my amazonian overlords). Stein’s books are not kissing books, they are fucking books. So there is the usual dance of making sure no one is likely to be reading over my shoulder on my commute train because I like to think my porn is at least mostly private. Her short story collections, of which this is one, are really short tone poems. Like kink […]
Starting off with a …meh…
My earliest review, evar!! I usually only review things that evoke a strong response and I’ve never even made a quarter Cannonball. This year I’m going to try to write about every book I finish. This book was basic. It was free on Kindle (still is as of this writing, if you just haaaave to read a romance set on Coronado) (N.B. how the fuck y’all gonna afford any real estate out there?) Hannah Davis was jilted and wants to find out what tore her […]
The Original and Still Worst!!
This is a bad book. It’s got high adventure! It’s got a sci fi premise that holds up 105 years after it’s first publication! The first person narration is a bit old fashioned but it works! It’s also one of the most racist things I’ve ever read. One could try the old “It’s a product of its time!” Well, it’s time was hella racist too, so that’s not wrong. John Carter, a white, Virginian, Confederate, Civil War veteran, is unexplainedly transported to Mars while running […]
We are not all heroes
I was inspired to write this review by this tweet. YA is an interesting genre. Nix’s previous books (which I adore) have given us a very typical YA heroines. They are morally clear, they have self doubt which they work through, and they are generally good. In Clariel – which a lot of Nix fans didn’t like – we don’t get that. Clariel is a prequel to Sabriel – Nix’s first “Old Kingdom” book. It’s set a couple of hundred years in the past. Clariel […]
Mega Review!! Three pieces of crap, one unremarkable episode, and a nugget of purest green!
Now, I know what you’re thinking “Fyre, you know you HATE billionaire romances!” I know! So over done! But I love me some menage so I was willing to wade into these treacherous waters for a bargain price. I present my real time notes from this collection. This is a long review but, I hope, worth your while. Drilled by Opal Carew Already stilted dialog. I’ll come along. Gah. Show don’t tell. Stop using the word glided for everything. It’s a horrible word, it sounds […]