The prologue to this seemed familiar, but I kept reading since I’d been encouraged to try out this lighter novel after not enjoying Walton’s “The Republic” very much. Turns out that I’d read it in 2012, oops. But that was long enough ago that the details were fuzzy and I enjoyed the re-read. It’s a fantasy story, strongly grounded in the real world of Wales and England in the late 1970’s/early 1980’s, telling what happens to a hero after she’s saved the world, how she […]
Shakespeare knew the Fae
After intending to participate in CBR for years and years, I finally decided to stop intending and start doing. Part of my “intending but not doing” problem is that it takes me forever to actually write something. I can talk and wave my hands with no problem, but writing an email, forum post or comment takes hours of revisions and second guessing. In the hope that I’ll finally start to get over this fear, here I am. I decided to start out easy, with a […]
Harmless YA fantasy with lots of potential for growth.
See, this is one of those books where you just NEED half-star rating options. Cough cough someone should get on that (GOODREADS). This is a three and a half star book, straight up. I liked it more than three stars worth, but did have some issues that prevent me from fully endorsing it (which is my line for giving something four stars–also, if I would re-read it, and not sure if I would yet). I’m choosing to round down for now, because I think it […]
Magic Ex Libris
New Year and new hopes for Cannonball 9! Things are getting off to a good start as I finished “Revisionary” yesterday and am putting up my review today. I believe John Scalzi was the gateway to my discovering Jim C. Hines and I so glad to have found him as he not only an incredibly talented writer but a stand up human being as well (it’s always wonderful when those two intersect). In 2012 wanting to discuss the ways women are portrayed on cover art […]
“I’m exactly where I need to be”
Girl has nightmares about everything she went through saving her faerie lord and the faerie realm. Faerie lord fears for the girl’s safety and won’t let her leave the house. Girl goes back and forth–some days she gives in to depression and lets him keep her in; some days she tries to rebel and wants to get out and do something. Faerie lord refuses to allow her to do anything. Then Faerie lord #2 swoops in–is it to save her? Is it to call in […]
Learned all the wrong lessons from George RR Martin
This, the second book in the Night Angel trilogy, picks up where The Way of Shadows left off. If you haven’t read the first book, and don’t want spoilers, read no further. I loved the first book. I loved it to the point that my excitement to read the next book in the series, and my obsession with telling everyone about it, became so hyperbolic that I knew my feelings didn’t actually correspond to what I actually read. It was good, in other words, but […]