Confession time: I was a lonely kid. My childhood wasn’t the greatest and tons of bad things happened. My toys and cartoons were my best friends. I’m not sure where I’d be if I didn’t have those little things. I think things would have been so much better if I had a Little Robot. There’s a little girl who lives in a trailer park. We don’t know how old she is, but she’s apparently too young for school since there’s a scene where she watches […]
What did I just read?
So, I finished this book this morning and I might have liked it? Maybe? I’m not really sure how I felt about it. It might have been good, but I think I might have simply been trying to figure out WTF was going on. Instead of good, maybe intriguing would be a better description. I’ll try to explain. The book has many viewpoints/location points. There’s some sort of interplanetary organization (John and Quinn work there)where the Chair has died, a successor has been announced […]
What does it say about a book when the Intro is the best part?
I… don’t know what to say about this. It’s an anthology of short stories by Sarah Totton. While I don’t love them, they’re… good? I can’t tell. They’re kind of weird. I said this to faintingviolet, and her response was: “You were expecting not weird?” I was expecting weird, considering where I bought the book, but I suppose I was expecting a different kind of weird. I think my favorite part of the whole book is the Introduction by Forrest Aguirre. His prose is […]
Well…. the cupcakes sounded tasty…
I didn’t hate this novel, but I also can’t give it more then one star. It’s badly written and badly in need of an editor. The writing was so frustratingly bad that I would just shake my kindle in annoyance (I’m not throwing it across the room, I like my kindle). There were some redeeming factors: it was free, there were werewolves, and there were more then a few female characters. The plot is a fairly standard plot for the first novel in an urban fantasy […]
I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.
This is a well written fantasy novel, the world building is very well thought out and presented nicely, the characters are well rounded and interesting. This book should have been catnip for me, and yet it was a chore to read. I was stuck in a blizzard and I still had trouble forcing myself to read this one. I just found myself so bored by it. I’d be reading a passage and my mind would start to wander to other things. I had the same issue […]
Proud member of the Carol Corps, checking in for duty, sir.
Okay, first of all I just want to say that Secret Wars seems like an unholy mess. I shouldn’t have to spend thirty minutes on Wikipedia reading up about a bunch of crazy shit just to enjoy my Carol Danvers, dammit. I mean, did ANYONE read all the Secret Wars stuff? If so, did you understand all of it? Because that page makes it sound terrible. As for the comic itself, once I got the gist of the background, it was actually pretty great! Basically […]