Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
I DNFed this book at page 103 last night. Life is too short for a book that is making your brain seep from your ears. There was too much being thrown at me and none of it made sense. McGuire writes this book with no world building so you are just thrown into a book where alchemy is a thing and so is putting body parts together to make a person. I can’t even get into this split soul thing and what that means and […]
Blackbird, Volume 1 by Sam Humphries
My weekend started normal: a late wake up, couple loads of laundry, off to a fund raiser for Special Olympics (which I did not know about until I get a text from my sister sending me my nephews very awesome Joker inspired pumpkin) and some reading. Mostly my reading was graphic novels and each of them became an experience that is hard to put into words. I will say, they all took me on an emotional roller coaster ride. Blackbird, Volume 1 has several traditional […]
The Vine Witch by Luanne G Smith
Bingo Update: This is for my I Love This square, not because I love the book, but rather because I love wine. The only reason I picked this up as one of my free books from Amazon last month was because it was about a witch whose entire magical purpose was based around the cultivation and production of brilliant wine. I was dying to see how they applied magic to vinification. The result may have left me about as satisfied as a box wine, but […]
Joust by Mercedes Lackey
Alta by Mercedes Lackey
Sanctuary by Mercedes Lackey
Aerie by Mercedes Lackey
CBR11Bingo: And So it Begins Life kind of got in the way of reading, so I doubt I’ll complete a bingo or even my CBR goal, but I figure I’ll keep trucking along. Please be aware that because this is a review of a series, there will be spoilers. Joust is the first book in Mercedes Lackey’s Dragon Jousters fantasy series. We are introduced to main character Vetch, a serf with an abusive master. Vetch was born in Alta, which has long been at war […]
City of Stairs (The Divine Cities Book 1) by Robert Jackson Bennett
City of Blades (The Divine Cities Book 2) by Robert Jackson Bennett
City of Miracles (The Divine Cities Book 3) by Robert Jackson Bennett
In my review of Red Rising, I asked about what it is that makes you decide whether or not to embark on a new series. Once again, I would like to build off this to ask a slightly different question – what makes you decide to back to a series that you left by the wayside? I hadn’t meant to abandon reading Robert Jackson Bennett’s Divine Cities Trilogy. But unfortunately, life got in the way. I got introduced to the series via the Hugo Awards […]
The Spirit Ring by Lois McMaster Bujold
I like to re-read and review at least one Lois book per year, even though it’s always hard for me to think of much to say besides “I love this!” It’s been a while since I revisited Fiametta, so I chose one of Lois’s rare (only?) standalone books, the fantasy Spirit Ring. Also rarely, this book takes place in the real(ish) world, in Renaissance-y Italy. Except that there’s magic. Fiametta Beneforte is a bright, headstrong daughter of a wealthy sorcerer and metalworker. Her father creates […]
