Mirabelle has been raised by her extremely overprotective guardians, knowing that her parents died in a fire on the night of her christening. She desperately wants answers about her parents and her background, but her two guardians are none too forthcoming, and so Mira feels she has no choice but to run away. To make sure that the women who raised her don’t immediately track her to Beau Rivage, the place where she was born, she spends the six months before her 16th birthday creating […]
Gangs of Wonderland
First time Cannonballer (LOL, “baller”), long time Pajiban. I decided to take the plunge and do a half Cannonball this year. So, first review is Alice. And I’m going to trigger warning the hell out of this because it’s difficult to even review it without touching on some nasty stuff. Have you ever finished a book and gone full Kurtz? Have you ever wished you could read a story about Discworld’s Ankh-Morpork, but without all that annoying wit, sharply observed satire and compelling characterisation? Have you ever wanted to read a […]
My first wish for 2016 is for Bettie Sharpe to publish more stories.
I was hooked about two pages into Ember, a romance retelling of “Cinderella” featuring a heroine who is a (mostly) benevolent witch and a prince who is literally cursed by Charm — everyone who meets him loves him, finds him salivatingly handsome, and can’t help but do what he wants. I knew immediately I would want to read everything by this author, which, I’ll mention now, is devastatingly little that is available: three novellas and one short story on Amazon and none published after 2012. […]
This book tried to do too much, and mostly failed at all of it. I’m very sadface about it.
So first of all, as a whole, I really love this series. I love the characters. I love the blending of sci-fi and fairy-tales. I love the epic, space-faring, international, futuristic scope of it. And I liked this book as well, but I didn’t love it. And as a book, and a series-ender, it was far from perfect. I’m really upset about not loving it, especially since each book since Cinder has been better than the last. I really thought Meyer had got her feet […]
Dance, Dance, Dance
This was one hell of an enjoyable read! Lots of thanks to the several Cannonballers who raved about it. The Girls at the Kingfisher Club is based on The Twelve Dancing Princesses fairy tale which I LOVED as a kid. Did anyone ever see that tv adaptation with Lesley Ann Warren? We had it recorded on VHS and I probably wore it out with my constant rewatches. Not sure if it’d hold up years later, but this book set in the roaring twenties was the […]
I mean, I GET it, but I don’t have to be HAPPY about it.
I have liked every Jim C. Hines book I’ve ever read, and that holds true for The Snow Queen’s Shadow. But I didn’t LIKE like this book. In fact, I think I’m in a fight with it. We definitely weren’t speaking for a while, and I got kind of pouty and shouty with it. Pouty shouty, if you will. The thing about this book, which is the fourth and last in Hines’ Princess quartet, is that it’s a smart, well-written ending to the series. It […]
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