“She had no idea what to expect, so there was no predicting what would be needed.” Vellitt Boe, Professor at the Women’s College at Ulthar, goes on a journey to find her student, Jurat, who has run off with a man she’s been seeing. He is planning to take her away to the waking world where, “He says there are millions of stars.” The problem is that Jurat’s father is a trustee of the board for the college and the board will likely get angry […]
Just Shows that Chivalry Doesn’t Benefit Women
Parzival is a young naive boy who is brought up by his mother as far away from knighthood and chivalry as she can control. Until he runs into three knights on the road and decided he too wants to become a knight. We learn that his mother recognizes the dangers of chivalry and how violent it is. Interestingly enough, chivalry is what brings Parzival to near ruin. He’s too polite and doesn’t ask an important question. I can’t say much more about the plot of Parzival […]
It Pandered to the Audience and I Willing Went Along With It
I haven’t been so engrossed in a book since I devoured the Hunger Games trilogy in a matter of days. However, Ranger’s Apprentice became the second book to have captured my attention so much I literally wanted to just rush home from work and read. The plot of the book seemed to tick off the boxes of things I look for in a book and it never lost its way.The underdog finds a purpose, a thrilling chase takes on life-or-death stakes, and ultimately we learn […]
“It takes more than trinkets and promises to intrigue me now.”
Miss India Steele is down on her luck. She has recently lost her father, and her fiance has dropped her after taking over her father’s shop in Victorian London. It is in that shop that she meets the mysterious Mr. Matthew Glass while confronting her ex. Mr. Glass employs her to help him find a watchmaker in London who created an absolutely unique pocket watch, and is the only one who can repair it. Miss Steele helps Mr. Glass, meeting his strange bunch of family […]
World Domination 101
This was an impulse library check out since the YA room was right there when I was returning some DVDs and I didn’t feel like running upstairs. I’m so glad that I grabbed it, it was right up my alley. Cadel is a young genius, taken to see a psychologist for troubled youth after he gets caught hacking into the power grid in his Australian city, at the ripe old age of 7 years old. But oddly enough, the first thing Dr. Roth does is […]
The night is dark and full of terrors
I found this through Scalzi’s big idea series and immediately put it in my library request list. The list of contributing authors is heavily weighted to my recent favourites, not to mention that I always love dark reinterpretations of fairy tales. This was an awesome collection, starting strong and ending great (and the physical book is gorgeous with lovely internal illustrations, I’ll be buying my own copy). There was a good representation of countries as well as a nice mix of modern retellings with more […]