I learned of this series in a comment from emmalita and I’m very grateful! I TORE through Volumes 1-5 last year, trading volumes with my best reading buddy. It’s the last time I remember staying up until 2am to read. This is my first time reading a graphic novel series, and I’m still blown away by the art and the ability to convey so much story in each frame. I reviewed Volume 5 before diving in, which was a good idea after a long break. […]
What’s my niche again?
I’d recently celebrated discovering my romance niche–dystopian romance. A Google search led me to some recommendations for Maddy Barone’s “After the Crash” series, so I plunked down the $0.00 to give it a try. What.the.hell. Carla survived a plane crash, but when she and another woman walk to find help they find themselves offered as prizes in a “Bride Fight” because the plane actually crashed 50 years into the future after nuclear war and meteors destroyed the planet which somehow means there are no women. So […]
“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
I love Anna Quindlen. I’ve read all of her fiction and followed her Newsweek columns for years. She has an absolute gift for translating the triumphs and heartbreaks of everyday Americans into gentle prose. I was mesmerized by Miller’s Valley, and despite its sad story, it felt like a warm blanket. This is Mimi Miller’s story, as she comes of age in the 60s and 70s in Miller’s Valley, a dying farm community in Pennsylvania. The government, promising progress and recreation, pushes the residents to sell […]
Catch My Disease
This was plugged by @SmartBitches on Twitter as a dystopian romance. Well, I’m working on finding my niche in romance and dystopian is my bag, baby! This seemed like a good match for me with only $1.99 at stake. Lynne Harmony is a CDC scientist and the most prominent survivor of the Scorpius bacterium, a plague that has turned most of the population into corpses or “Rippers”, who turn into primal killers or tactical psychopaths with the change in their brain chemistry. Lynne got away […]
Lazy Daisies…Mild Wildflowers…
Another unfortunate victim of “if you loved Gone Girl” syndrome. I felt like this was very mild as far as thrillers go, which sounds crazy considering that this is the story of Tessa, the lone surviving Black-Eyed Susan who was dumped in a grave with other victims of a serial killer. As an adult, Tessa is unsure that the man scheduled to die for the crimes is the true killer and she seeks out legal help to exonerate the convicted man. The chapters alternate from […]
Every time I see you falling, I get down on my knees and pray
This well-researched book covers the short and insulated world of the Romanov sisters, the 4 daughters of the last tsar of Russia. Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, along with their youngest brother Alexey were the central focus of their parents, Nicholas and Alexandra, and lived loving but deeply sheltered lives as monarchs until their exile and murder during the Russian revolution. While the main focus is on the girls, the book starts with Alexandra’s love match with Nicholas, as the foundation for the love and […]