I’ve been looking forward to reading this novel for a while, even if other books kept getting in the way. I would like to visit Cambodia one day, mostly to visit Angkor Wat, and a friend of mine lives there. As a result I was very interested to read about this darker period of Cambodian history which I had only a vague inkling of. Ratner is a descendant of one of the Cambodian kings so this novel is very much drawn on her actual experiences […]
Jen K’s Review #5: Thirteen
This is the concluding novel of the Women of the Otherworld series, and wraps up the Savannah Levine trilogy that started with Waking the Witch. Overall, I think it was a very fitting ending, though I don’t think Savannah is really one of my favorite narrators. That honor would be reserved for Elena, Eve and Jaime. Still, it makes sense that the novel would end with Savannah as she is the middle between the next generation of women and the ones that made up the […]
Jen K’s Review #4: Spell Bound
Spell Bound takes off immediately where Waking the Witch left off, with Savannah’s powers gone. After regretting how the last case ended, she had made a wish that she would gladly give up her spells if only she could fix some of the problems her investigation caused. As it turns out, someone took her up on her offer. Having already finished the concluding trilogy of the series, I will say that this one does kind of fill like a middle book. Waking the Witch introduces […]
Jen K’s Review 3: Waking the Witch
After being introduced as a 12 year old girl in the second novel of the series, Savannah Levine narrates the 11th book in the series as a 21 year old. For the most part, this novel falls very much in line with the rest of the series, though there is more focus on Savannah growing up, and less on romantic entanglements. Savannah is an odd character in ways – she has always been presented as spunky, saracastic, very independent and yet when it came time […]
Jen K’s Review #2: Bellman and Black
I’m pretty sure that my reaction upon completing a book isn’t supposed to be “so what was the point/ what the fuck did I just read?” I don’t think every book needs to have a deeper message (which this one kind of did, but it was a bit cliche, hence the “what’s the point”) or even a super exciting plot as long as I feel entertained. Unfortunately, the novel ran out of steam for me about halfway through, which is really unfortunate because I loved […]
Jen K’s Review #1: Hitler’s Furies
The idea behind this book was to explore the role of women in Nazi Germany, and how they participated or collaborated with the regime, only to be mostly ignored in the post war time years, while instead the myth of the German martyr women, victims of rape and air attacks on the home front took hold. While I liked the book and thought Lower made an interesting argument, it felt all too brief, more like this is the beginning of an area of study. For […]
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