Last month I read Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and this month I read its sequels Hollow City and Library of Souls which were not quite as strong as their predecessor but still relatively enjoyable for YA fantasy. **Spoilers for Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children below** “I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn’t to run or hide or give up the minute things seemed terrifying and impossible.” So when we left Jacob Portman and […]
A Half Angel Rules Hell and Lucifer gets to Heaven
I annoyed myself when I realized that I’d skipped a novel. This is in fact the third, not the second. In itself, this isn’t a bad thing, except I now know major spoilers from that installment. Then I realized, that had I read some of those spoilers in their story, I might have had to quit the series since a character apparently dies of whom I was quite fond in the first novel. That would have been a bit of a shame (the giving up) […]
Define Skeeve
The best thing about this book was that when I got home from picking it up from the library and opened it, I discovered that on the inner title page was the following: I don’t think I’ve ever actually considered “losing” a library book on purpose before. About a year or so ago, I read one of the later additions to this series and I enjoyed it, so I decided to see how the whole thing got started. Myth Adventures One is a composite of […]
Cannon Book Club: Kindred
I tend to listen to an audio-book while driving, read a paperback or thin hardcover on my lunch break and then save thicker hardcover books for at home. My copy of Kindred was a paperback so it was on the lunch rotation which meant it took me a lot longer to read than it deserved. At this point I think we all know the gist of Butler’s Kindred but here is a quickie synopsis for the lone person who missed all the other reviews and/or Book Club discussion. […]
Hooray for Hollywood… eventually
Mendoza in Hollywood by Kage Baker
So far, hands down this is the best book so far in “The Company” series. It’s the first one I read, *gasp* OUT OF ORDER! But what a killer title, how could I resist? I was young and naive. 2018 me would never do such a thing! The book starts off with Mendoza in a private hearing in 1863, and right away, she confesses to the two auditors (Company men) that she’s killed seven mortal men. We see that she’s eating Theobromos, the chocolate that intoxicates […]
Backyard Fairies
Backyard Fairies is more of a 4.5 rating as I would have liked “something else” (though I am not sure exactly what that would be. Perhaps I would have liked it to be a tad bit longer. I do enjoy the illustrations as they are unique. They have a realistic quality but in a slight unrealistic way. The contradiction of this does make them slightly magical. Phoebe Wahl has been the girl in this story. I would also go as far to say, that she […]
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