I’ve been holding off on reading this and Kindred Spirits because I don’t want to live in a world without an undiscovered Rainbow Rowell book. I love her writing that much. And it is because of the Cannonball Read that I even know she exists. It’s astounding to me that something as good as Fangirl or Attachments or any number of other great novels could exist at the same time as me, and I wouldn’t just know about them because of some vague, shared cultural […]
I Do Not Want this but I love it?
I love to watch almost any kind of procedural show from the sublime (Elementary) to the ridiculous (Hawaii Five-O) but I usually loathe reading police-focused detective novels. I like my mysteries to be Cozy. I need a butler serving tea to the vicar in the library while someone is murdered by undetectable exotic poison in the Conservatory. I don’t want to read about violent grisly death or forensic details or police procedure in the modern world. I also don’t particularly enjoy paranormal books where supernatural […]
A Reluctant Inappropriate Earl
Warning: Contains hot m/m sex between a deeply inappropriate earl and a very confused magician, dark plots in a magical version of Victorian England, family values (not the good kind), and a lot of swearing. This was such a magical, steamy, witty, entertaining read! Having read a couple M/M historical romance by Cat Sebastian, I was prompted by Ellepkay to check out Ms Charles books. Thanks for that recommendation – I wasn’t disappointed! This first book in the series had me hooked pretty much from […]
Tell ’em a hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the call
Ok so this is book 4, and I’m still super confused. Alice and the Pillar are working together again to save the world. But the Pillar (the hookah smoking caterpillar / insane serial killer) has ulterior motives. I really have no idea what they are. Even when it seems like he’s screwing over Alice, he’s usually saving her. He’s not a good guy, but he doesn’t really seem to be a bad guy either? I don’t know. Anyway, there’s a plague sweeping the world. Everyone […]
Grounded, imaginative YA fantasy.
Another Little Piece is a refreshingly original YA story that not only explores a completely different supernatural angle but is also, notably, not a trilogy, and therefore has an obviously different plot arc and pacing from so many of its contemporaries. If you’re looking for moody, supernatural YA fantasy that has nothing to do with a teen girl being seduced by some sort of undead man-teen, this book is for you. From Goodreads, because I have like 9 thousand reviews to catch up on and […]
I don’t agree with the Amazon reviews…
Some people reported this as “engrossing” and “captivating” or “compelling”… I would never say that. Perhaps these other people have never read another book? I would also not call it mind-blowing… unless you mean mind-blowingly slow, mind-blowingly full of superfluous adjectives, or mind-blowingly awkward. Yeah, I’m not a fan of this book and I would not have finished it except that I want to be able to participate in my first group book read… A short blurb containing *SPOILERS*: Alok meets a stranger who refuses […]