Cannonball Read 18

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Louisa The Poisoner by Tanith Lee

Louisa the Poisoner by Tanith Lee

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I have never heard of Tanith Lee before, but definitely want to seek out her other works. This entire book was so campy and also horrific as you read about a young woman named Louisa who is focused on getting what she wants (lots of money and to walk down roads spilled with gold) and will take out whoever she has to. Louisa the Poisoner follows a 19 year old Louisa who is raised by her aunt who though is a dirty/messy person, raises Louisa […]

Go nowhere on a horse that fades, for your dreams will betray you.

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Night’s Master by Tanith Lee is the May selection for the Sword and Laser book group. It’s been a few months since I’ve read the selected book, and since this one was relatively inexpensive I decided to read it. It’s a beautiful lush book, full of interesting characters, but I just didn’t love it. There isn’t much of a plot. The book is a collection of stories that revolve around the demon prince Azhrarn, but at the end some of the very loose plot threads […]

Robot Love

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The Silver Metal Lover was a great introduction to Tanith Lee for me. This particular month, Vaginal Fantasy focused on a robot theme with authors questioning the power of love with an artificial being. This particular love story is about a young, naive rich girl named Jane. She lives a pretty sheltered life in a beautiful mansion in the sky with her mother. All her friends are jaded and mean, living quite the hedonistic lifestyle on their parents money. One day while walking with her gay friend Clovis, she comes across a […]

Oh, Jane, would it have hurt you to be just a bit more interesting?

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Jane lives a pampered and privileged life, the only child of a wealthy and influential woman. She’s lonely, insecure and immature. She has no real friends, just people who mainly seem to take pleasure in bullying her. One day, she encounters a robot minstrel, one in a new line of highly realistic, artificially intelligent androids and her life is never the same. Though she is initially frightened by the robot, she’s also fascinated by him and can’t put him out of her mind. She runs […]



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