I am now completely caught up on this series and I have pre-ordered book 5. I state again, I don’t think these are amazing books but they’re light, fluffy, and fun to read. This book explores more of the world of the Fae as Alex is caught up in Winter Court political intrigues. She is asked to investigate the death of one of the Winter Queen’s handmaidens. In the process, she discovers the dangerous connection of that death to a new street drug in the […]
I Have to Scale a Tower Naked? Where Do I Put My Sword?
The Mermaid’s Madness by Jim C. Hines (2009) – Okay, I broke a few of my self-imposed reading rules when I picked up this book, and I’m glad I did. I don’t usually select a book that’s in the middle of a series, and I tend to skip “reworked” fairy tales when I want to read fantasy. As usual, rules are meant to be broken, and I totally enjoyed this book loosely based on the original Little Mermaid. In this fantasy realm, Snow White, Sleeping […]
Only Memories Remain
Grave Memory is book three of the Alex Craft books and I am quickly churning through this series. In fact, I’m going through it so quickly that I just started the last of the published books. I will be… not sad exactly when there are no more books to read, but something like sad. The books are playing with different death myths, and they’re fun and light and good escapism. In Grave Memory Alex starts investigating an apparent suicide, which she witnesses, when the ghost […]
Not at All Magically Realistic
Y’all. Y’all. Maybe I wasn’t the target audience for this book but it was so bad.
More of that other Alice in Wonderland series I was reading… yeah I forgot about it too!
Ok so Phantoms of the North is book 6 in the Alice in Deadland series. I put these two books together, because they’re short, and their stories are quite similar. In Phantoms, everyone is safe and happy in Wonderland. The Homeland (the USA) is sending over people and equipment to start large scale farming operations. Things are going well. And then Alice and one of her buddies finds a man while they’re out on patrol. He’s beaten up and scared, and he tells them that […]
Questing with snakes
Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre
This one was recommended by fellow Cannonballers/Pajibans when I requested help finding women sci-fi writers, and I am so glad! It was post-apocalyptic and interesting and original. I had read some McIntyre before, but not this one. Snake is a healer, traveling around and helping people in villages that are too small to have their own resident healer. She works with three snakes, using their poison to combat cancers or other diseases, and using the ultra-rare dreamsnake to ease pain until the end in the […]