Wow, that wasn’t what I was expecting AT ALL. In a good way. For me, this is the best of the series. So, fair warning, this review will be chock-a-block full of spoilers, so stay away, far far away if you don’t want to get spoiled all to hell. Usually, I try not to put spoilers (at least, ones involving twists and resolutions of the plot) in my reviews, but in this case, it’s impossible to say what I want to say without talking about […]
Officially done with this travesty of an adaptation.
Guys, I’m begging you. Don’t even bother with this series, whether or not you’ve read the original trilogy. If you’re a fan, it’s just going to piss you off. And if you’re a noob, you’re just going to wonder why everyone is obsessed with this piece of crap story. Denise Mina absolutely ruins her adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, and the worst part is, it seems to have been done on purpose. I read Vol. 1 of this series last year, which adapted the […]
Alif The Unseen
“if you can’t pay with things, you could pay with skills,” said Sakina, motioning to the shadow. “Well, wait a minute,” said Alif, looking from the shadow to Sakina. “My skills are more or less limited to computers… I’m not sure how much help that is to an, ah, to a…” Effrit, said the shadow. I’m an effrit. And I’ve got a two-year-old Dell desktop in the back that’s had some kind of virus for ages. The screen goes black five minutes after I […]
The Formation of the Vidocq Society
In which Siege delights in a true-crime book that is a lot more than just a litany of cases.
No matter how creepy, you are no Wednesday Addams, my dear
Flavia de Luce is an 11-year-old chemistry nut in a rambling old English mansion in 1950. Her father is a stamp-collecting recluse, and she and her two older sisters are pretty much on their own – their mother died years ago. Flavia hears her father arguing with a stranger one evening, and then later that night, finds the stranger dead in the garden. The precocious chemist, worried that her father did the deed, sets out to solve the crime on her own and befuddle the […]
Same Song, Second Verse
I admit, I’ve read/listened to every book Janet Evanovich has written (even the ones from the early nineties). They are like candy after a serious novel or piece of non-fiction, and I can zip through them in a flash. I’m partial to the earlier Stephanie Plum, so I thought I’d give one of her new series a shot. Wicked Appetite, featuring the characters of Diesel and Carl the monkey from the “Plum Lovin” series introduces a cupcake maker named Lizzy, who lives in Salem, Massachusetts […]
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