Light on Steampunk and Heavy on Darkness — A Review of the Books Released So Far in the Series, Steampunk Chronicles

The Strange Case of Finley Jayne This novella combined the best of two worlds for me: steampunk and Frankenstein albeit being light on the former! Our introduction to Finley Jayne takes place when she starts working for a new employer. Word about her strength gets out to a mother who is worried her future son-in-law…

The Last Two Books from the Immortals Series by Tamora Pierce Lead Us Away from Tortall

I had issues with these last two books. You can read my review of the previous book here. Anyway, I’ll start with Emperor Mage. My first problem was that they took all my favorite characters out of Tortall to a completely new place. I didn’t like Carthak at all, which may have been kind of…

Terrier, the First Book in Beka Cooper Series, Gives Us Our First Real Glimpse at the Common Folk of the Tortall Universe

I review the first book in a new series by Tamora Pierec.

Reviewing Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines Quartet #1) by Philip Reeve — Interesting Premise But Boring Protags

I’ll begin with what I liked about this book. The whole concept of Municipal Darwinism — based on survival of fittest but one where big cities literally swallowed the smaller ones — was interesting. Something about it reminded me of a favorite series, Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld. Secondly, the book didn’t have any love triangles…

May 2019 — A Wrap-Up

This was a really cute book with pictures on cats of various ages high on catnip. All of them looked cute and so so high. I finished the book in no time since there wasn’t any text that went along with the photographs, except for the cats’ names and ages. It is said that about…