I consider myself very lucky that I discovered Justin Cronin’s “The Passage” series only last summer, so the wait for City of Mirrors was much less painful and dramatic than it would have been if I’d been reading in real time: The Passage was published in 2010 and The Twelve in 2012. City of Mirrors came out four weeks ago. That’s not on a George R. R. Martin level, but still could have been a brutal wait for me. Whew! I love this series. I […]
Y’all are a messed up group and I love you
I never would have picked this one up without y’all’s reviews, which all basically said: this book was weird and violent but I think I liked it? Expandingbookshelf, I believe your review finally tipped me over the edge. So I read it, and I’m here to say: this book was weird and violent but I’m pretty sure liked it. “For all intents and purposes, the power of the Library is infinite. Tonight we’re going to settle who inherits control of reality.” Carolyn and her fellow Librarians work […]
I’m a Queen…No I’m a Warrior! Queen! Warrior!…Maybe I Can be Both?
Rating: 4.25/5 Summary: After the defeat of Angra, the evil King of Spring, Meira, Mather and the Winterians have returned home. Unfortunately they also brought Cordell & its soldiers with them. Thus begins the long process of healing Winter and repaying the staggering debt to Cordell. King Noam isn’t making it easier either. When Winterians stumble across the lost Chasm of Magic in one of the caves Meira & Theron embark on a quest throughout Primoria to find the keys to unlock it. However, Meira […]
Down With Useless Boy Toy
I bought Twelve Kings in a Waterstones in London because I knew that my most of my digital means of entertainment (Netflix, tv, Crunchyroll) would be non-functional and-or unavailable, and I finished the one of the two books I brought with me much faster than intended (it was awesome; see my review of The Invisible Library). This one lasted a while because it took me half the novel to get into it. In short: I love the world the story is set in, but the […]
The Most Fun Librarians Ever
Did you ever wonder how all the books in the “Silence of the Library” and “Forest of the Dead” got in the Library? It might have gone something like this: Irene the junior Librarian for the Invisible Library, a secret organization that seeks out rare and unique books to collect in the library by traveling through different parallel dimensions with various degrees of technology and magic, goes on missions to retrieve them. She’s a pretty good secret agent, but sometimes she runs into unexpected adventures. […]
You can check out any time you like but you can never leave (Cannonball!)
4.5 Stars. I’d seen some glowing reviews of this book on Cannonball Read, so when it popped up on my library list as available, I immediately downloaded it. I went in not knowing much about the book, but was pleasantly surprised to be reading a great addition to the great canon of vampire literature. This is the first truly modern vampire book I’ve ever read. True Blood and The Vampire Diaries got halfway there, but The Coldest Girl in Coldtown takes it to the next […]