The first two (and the only ones so far published) books in the Diviners series are genre-bending, spooky young adult mysteries with tons of characters in intersecting stories, all set during the roaring twenties and featuring tons of historical flourishes. I am incredibly lazy and struggling to write reviews right now, so I’m leaning on Goodreads for these plot descriptions: The Diviners (3.5 stars) — “Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York […]
Honestly, being a teen assassin sounds easier than my life.
I enjoyed the Throne of Glass series so much I couldn’t make myself stop between books to write reviews. And then shit happened and I have three partial reviews so instead of trying to write either three reviews or 1 comprehensive review, I’m going to throw out a bunch of remembered thoughts and then try to say something reasonably coherent. As taken as I was with the books, I got bogged down in writing the review and eventually abandoned and forgot it. I found it […]
“I’m not that girl. I’m not. I’m someone else forged in a mirrored room, like steel melted down and made stronger.”
As the first book, The Falconer, opens, we find a young lady – our heroine, as it happens – at the refreshment table, listening as other young ladies gossip about the possibility of her murdering her mother and/or being insane. So, an auspicious beginning to an entirely epic tale. A tale which includes legends & fairies and fae – although, really, some of these fairies resemble nothing so much as demons and hell hounds, dragons and vampires, if you’re asking me – and those that fight […]
It’s a travesty this has only been reviewed once before (thanks, bonnie!)
I would love to rhapsodize about this book, but I’m kind of pressed for time (doubt I’ll be able to write this review before Christmas, and I don’t want to hold off since I just finished this book and it’s fresh in my mind). The best way I can describe this, I think, is to say that The Way of Shadows (2008) a bit like The Name of the Wind (2007) by Patrick Rothfuss mixed with an Assassin’s Creed video game. Azoth is an impoverished child […]
The Japanese Ghost-busters go to War
I have only really genuinely enjoyed one short story collection in my life, and it was my introduction to the Yamada Monogatari series (Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter). The War God’s Son is the second full novel, and likely third to last publication in the series according to a comment on the author’s blog. It is however this first novel not directly rooted plot-wise in one of the short stories. The first novel, To Break the Demon Gate, was an extension of one of the short […]
Oops I did it again
I have done this twice recently: started a series part way through by mistake. Funny thing is, it’s a similar sort of series and the mistake will probably have similar effects. The Iscariot Sanction is Book 2 of the Apollonian Casefiles series (which is apparently aka the Lazarus Gate series?). It is somewhat steampunk, somewhat secret agent adventure, and somewhat a buddy-cop style story. There are some supernatural happenings in late nineteenth century London, and a secret society connected to the government is investigating/protecting the […]