4.5 stars In her follow-up to one of my favourite books of last year (Act Like It), Lucy Parker returns to the London theatre world, this time introducing us to acclaimed director Luc Savage, who has spent a considerable amount of his time and huge amounts of money restoring a theatre his family has a generations long connection to. He’s planning to celebrate the reopening of the theatre with a prestigious play called 1553, featuring character studies of Mary I, Elizabeth I and poor doomed […]
Another strong showing
Lucy Parker has earned herself a spot on my preorder list with this one. It’s not as magnetic as Act Like It, but it still was a pleasure to read. I dropped the new Lisa Kleypas halfway through to pick this up instead, finished it, and then went back to the Kleypas. This says SO much about both books. Lily Lamprey is a soap opera star who wants to break in to the theater world. Through a family friend she gets the opportunity to audition […]
A truth universally acknowledged: dating is hard.
I enjoyed this book immensely but I have some issues with the style and also with the ending. Still, I heartily recommend it if you want a light, fun read that tells a story from a point of view many of us are not familiar with: a thirty something Muslim woman who is devout and modern at the same time. Sofia Khan works in publishing. She’s newly single and her sister is getting married. Her parents worry that she will never find a husband and […]
As good as a story about vermin can be
I haven’t read too many of the “gritty fairy tale reboot” genre, and I didn’t know when I started this that that’s what I was getting. China Mieville book? Sign me up! Gritty story about the Pied frakkin’ Piper? What the hell? But China didn’t let me down. The outline of the story is very familiar: protagonist gets in a scrape, finds out he’s important or chosen in some way, learns new skills and gets new allies, faces Big Bad. But it’s all told with […]
“Like young men from the dawn of time, I decided to choose the risk of death over certain humiliation.”
This is the third book in the Peter Grant/Rivers of London series, and so far my favorite. This is definitely a series you want to read in order. Each book has added on to the story and the Big Bad that is being built up flows through the books. But, if you’re looking for an alternate world (that is diverse and inclusive), this is a fun one to join. It’s really hard to write about the plot without giving anything away. So much of the […]
Is it just me, or it the title never mentioned in the book?
Some rolling thoughts as I went through the book: I have no idea what’s going on. Jessica is a bitch. Was Richard cheating on her? I think he mentions underwear belonging to someone else… but he doesn’t seem the type…or was this a figment of my imagination… Richard does not deserve that phone. It makes him appear way cooler than he is. “Richard was not an enthusiastic holder of pigeons, even at the best of times.” I like how they used the special effect for […]
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