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The Drab Side of the Nightside Books
Hell to Pay & Sharper than a Serpent’s Tooth by Simon R. Green Here is what is wrong with this series — and not just with the two books in question: John’s third eye and the powers that come from it are a huge deus ex machina plot device. I don’t think there is any…
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How John Taylor Surprised Me With His Beliefs About Good and Evil — A Review of Paths Not Taken (Nightside #5)
My Thoughts The first instance ever that I have read the words jet-black describing the MC’s mom’s hair. The thing with jet-black is that while I have heard it used quite often in my family, I haven’t heard it or read it anywhere else. We use it to describe a shade of black darker than…
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Short and Snappy Reviews — Twenty to Life, First Drop of Crimson, & The Bride Wore Black Leather
Three short and snappy reviews of three very different books!
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Reviews of Books I Read in July-August 2021
What I read this August and my thoughts on it.
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September 2020 — A Wrap-Up
A lot took place in September by which I mean we decided to visit the northern part of the country as part of a family vacation. Take out the time we spent traveling and we had like ten days to have fun. So, you can guess I didn’t get much reading done. What I did…
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June 2020 — Netgalley Reads
What I requested from Netgalley in June and their reviews.
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October 2019 — A Belated Wrap-Up
Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews Find my review here. To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death by Mark O’Connell An interesting book and yet I felt as if the author didn’t believe in the importance of the subject themselves. There was also a…
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Reading Anniversaries & First-in-a-Series — July Edition
2017 Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson This was my first encounter with Kamala Khan and boy did I love what I read! What made her an authentic character were her lifelike issues, including those of being a teenager, a superhero coming into her powers, of trying to find her place…
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Book Titles With… Series Part One
Talulla Rising by Glen Duncan The Unadulterated Cat by Terry Pratchett Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov The Salvation of Yellow by Kenneth A. Mugi 6. The Grim Company by Luke Scull 7. Paths Not Taken by Simon R. Green 8. Dr. Frankenstein’s Daughters by Suzanne Weyn…