Lessons by Ian McEwan
As in, I’m finding it hard to express my feelings about this book. Not because I enjoyed it (I didn’t). Eloquence is overrated anyway. The plot: a young boy in 1960s England is sent to boarding school, is molested by his (female) piano teacher, then has a relationship with her that lasts for … [Read more]
Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution #1) by Genevieve Cogman
It is 1793 and the French Revolution is in full swing. Vampires, who are as usual, portrayed as rich and aristocratic (they're blood-sucking leeches who also happen to be corpses; how is this not the White Trash Central group? Though yes, even without being vampiric they'd still be leeches; they are … [Read more]
The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison
This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is not the book you are expecting. (ain't that the truth?) In an alternate 1880s London, angels inhabit every public building, and vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings in a … [Read more]
Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #2) by Tamsyn Muir
She answered the Emperor's call (as if she ever had a choice). She arrived with her arts, her wits, her neverending death wish, and her only friend (not that she'd admit to that before it was all too late.) Oh, your cavaliers are young? And they fight? How classic! So jejune!-but that would not … [Read more]
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don't want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in them, I think, and they resent it. So they reject it and refuse to think about it. If they … [Read more]
Greenteeth by Moly O'Neill
In the quiet depths of a lake lurks Jenny Greenteeth, a monster with needle sharp teeth, hungry and ready to pounce. In all the years she's lived there, Jenny has never spoken to a human; but that ends when a witch from the local village is thrown into her lake. I could hear some humans … [Read more]
