I’m not quite sure The Girl on the Train deserves all the hype it’s being given, but it’s a fast-paced psychological thriller/mystery, and I think it succeeds handily in being exactly what the author wanted it to be. I didn’t NEED to read it, and you don’t either, but I’m glad that I did. As is always the case with these sorts of books, the less said about the book the better, but I do want to take a second to talk about some things: […]
Fire spider: IGNITE!!!
Sometimes you go into a book with expectations, and the book blows those expectations all to hell. The first two books in the Magic Ex Libris series were fun, pulpy romps through the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (and through the annals of great fantasy and sci-fi literature). We followed librarian cum libriomancer, Isaac Vainio, a man who can use magic to pull things out of books, as he fought off all mess of troubles. As a member of the Porters, a secret society of magic […]
These books might actually be a bit too young for my expectations, but they are still great.
Daja’s Book is the third in Tamora Pierce’s children’s fantasy book series, Circle of Magic. I was previously classifying this as young adult, but this book has firmly set my mind on the subject. At the end of these books, I keep wanting more from them. More development. More sophistication. More actual content (they’re very short). More time spent (they take place over very short periods of time). And I finally decided, basically just about five minutes ago, that the expectations I was placing on this […]
Is this the best Agatha Christie book? I’m still partial to ‘And Then There Were None.’
Up until the ending, I really did not understand why this book is widely considered to be the best (or at least the top five) of Christie’s books. Then it happened, and I was like WHAT!? Actually it was more like a double what, because not only was it a really daring ending, especially for being published in 1926, but I actually guessed the murderer! That has never happened to me before. I am THE WORST at guessing mystery endings. I am gullible and trusting […]
“What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.”
First, some things you should know about me, for like, context and stuff: 1. I usually avoid apocalypse books like the plague (or more apropos, the Georgia Flu). Most of the time, even thinking about apocalyptic situations makes me panic. 2. I am a Shakespeare nerd. 3. I am a Star Trek nerd. 4. I cannot explain why I loved this book so much, because most of my reaction was completely sub-conscious. I have gotten gradually more stingy with my five star reviews since I […]
What if superheroes were the bad guys?
Firefight is the second book in prolific wunderkind* Brandon Sanderson’s YA series, The Reckoners, which is about what would happen if the world suddenly developed superheroes, only the superheroes were all of them evil, power-hungry, maniacal psychopaths. The Reckoners are a group of normal people (well, mostly) dedicated to bringing down those superheroes, called Epics in this world. Nineteen year old David is our protagonist and POV into this world. When he was a kid, he watched as infamous Epic Steelheart killed his father, and he […]
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