I LOVED this. My biggest complaint is that I wish it was about ten times longer. “For us, places we went were home. We didn’t care if they were good or evil or neutral or what. We cared about the fact that for the first time, we didn’t have to pretend to be something we weren’t. We just got to be. That made all the difference in the world.” Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children serves a unique purpose: it acts as a boarding school for […]
The Star Wars reading continues
There are so many options for kids and adults who love Star Wars stories. This one is subtitled “An Original Retelling of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.” Truth in advertising. The story is told in the 2nd person, putting the reader in Luke Skywalker’s place. It’s an interesting way of looking at The Empire Strikes Back – the author is excellent at creating a sense of place and really allowing you to see through Luke’s eyes. He also has a sense of humor about […]
The plan is to fan this spark into a flame
I’m so pissed at this book. HOW DARE YOU, BOOK. How DARE you be better than the first novel (A Darker Shade of Magic). How DARE you make me care more about the characters. How DARE you introduce even more characters I have to care about. But most of all HOW DARE YOU END ON A CLIFFHANGER. For serious, you guys, I’m so mad. Mostly because the next book isn’t out and might not even be written yet? So rude. What am I supposed to […]
Add Exploding Pastries to My List of Wanted Weapons
First, a note of thanks to crystalclear for not wanting to bash my head in for how long this book sat on my desk, unread. It is her copy and I am a bad friend for not returning it to her in a timely fashion. Beware of friends who overcommit on their reading capacity, we’re a terrible liability to your own reading. 🙂 That being said, this is the final book of the Finishing School series, a prequel of sorts to The Parasol Protectorate series […]
You want a revolution, I want a revelation
So this is definitely my favorite of the three Lunar Chronicles novels I’ve read so far (spoiler alert: I started reading Winter, got bored, started reading something else, and then the book was due back at the library, so I still haven’t finished the series. I’m not sure when I’ll get around to it, I just checked out SO MANY NEW BOOKS.) Anyway. Cress! Like Cinder and Scarlet before it, Cress is based on a fairy tale. In this case, Rapunzel, which has always been one […]
I have never been the type to try and grab the spotlight
I really wanted to love this. Like LOVE LOVE it. Jane Austen with magic? COME ON. And I enjoyed reading it, I suppose. Hell, I read it in a day. But my biggest problem with it? It didn’t give me any FEELS. I want the feels, I NEED THE FEELS. Jane Ellsworth is a single woman in Regency England, and though she’s only 28 (A BABY), she’s considered a spinster and has all but given up on ever finding love or a husband. Her younger […]