ETA: My initial review stated one thing wrong: this is not the final book. THERE IS A FOURTH BOOK COMING NEXT YEAR OH MY GOD WHY ISN’T THIS SERIES OVER YET. I gotta be honest here. I went into this book fully expecting it to be awful. The cover appeals to me on a very basic level (the level that likes shiny and poofy things), but my experience with the last book left me convinced there was no way Cass could possibly write a third […]
The one where I think I’m glad I didn’t live in 16th century England…
The Queen’s Fool is one of those books that sat on my bookshelf for awhile, getting passed over time and again for something else. I don’t know if it was the cover (it does look a little romance-y) or the blurb on the back, but it never really jumped out and demanded to be read. Then one day, I found myself reaching for it, and I couldn’t put it down. Set during the tumultuous years after King Edward’s death in the sixteenth century, the novel […]
MelBivDevoe’s CBR review #13
I discovered Rainbow Rowell’s novels earlier this year, thanks to many recommendations from several friends. Her latest, “Landline,” differs from her most recent novels in that it’s not YA. Of all her novels, this one feels the most grown-up to me; it’s also the most supernatural or science fiction-ish. Georgie McCool is a successful television writer who has two young daughters with her stay-at-home husband Neal. Georgie and Neal have been together since college, but their marriage has become strained as Georgie’s career has taken […]
Swan Lake in the Amazon rain forest
Eighteen year old Harriet Morton lives with her stuffy professor father and strict and joyless aunt in Cambridge. Her only chance to escape the drudgery of her life is through books or the weekly ballet lessons that her father inexplicably lets her take. When she is offered a position with a travelling ballet troupe going to perform Swan Lake in a remote city up the Amazon river, but denied permission by her father, she rebels and runs away. When the troupe arrive in Manaus in South America, […]
Kidnappings and torture and war machines and daring rescues
Part Five: The Kraken King and the Iron Heart – 4.5 stars Part Six: The Kraken King and the Crumbling Walls – 4 stars Part Seven: The Kraken King and the Empress’s Eyes – 4.5 stars Part Eight: The Kraken King and the Greatest Adventure – 4 stars Parts 1-4 reviewed here. Zenobia and Ariq are over the initial awkward state getting to know one another and actually falling in love part of their relationship. That doesn’t mean that their communication runs smoothly and that there are no more cultural […]
A journey across Europe and into the past
Nicola Marter has psychometric powers. This means that when she touches an object, she can see glimpses of whoever’s owned it or touched it before. Her grandfather, who escaped from Russia, has the same powers and always admonished her to keep the gift hidden, which she does, even from her boss Sebastian, an eccentric and successful antiquities dealer. Yet when a woman, Margaret Ross, comes to them with a wooden carving which she wants authenticated, claiming that it was once owned by Empress Catherine of […]
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