Vamps and the City by Kerrelyn Sparks A pleasant surprise! I was expecting the lead couple would jump into bed immediately but I liked how the author took time to let the relationship develop. I also appreciated how they were willing to sacrifice their vamp/human nature for each other but decided on a compromise. I will definitely…
Category: Book Reviews
April 2018 — A Wrap Up
Out for Blood by Kristen Painter This series has many flaws but since I have read the first few books I am going to see it through. While it is true that I have been spacing them out, so I could have missed it but I kept searching for a bigger picture or an overarching…
March 2018 — A Wrap Up
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry Creates a feeling of dread very nicely but doesn’t follow through. The protag is made to look so smart in so many ways and yet her stupidity gets an old woman killed! Barely anything happens in the book and it feels like a go-between for the first and third books…
Reading Anniversaries: First in a Series & Singles – March Edition
2017 The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman Find my review here Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Review here Coraline by Neil Gaiman My review Dune by Frank Herbert First, Second, Third, and Fourth parts. All Flesh Is Grass by Clifford D. Simak The review 2016 The Chameleon’s Shadow by Minette Walters I love reading books by this author because they portray human interaction…
Reading Anniversaries: First in a Series & Singles–February Edition
2015 Magno Girl by Joe Canzano An old review: What I Thought: the book was about a female superhero…but the book was not from the superhero’s POV but the guy dating her! some of the jokes and situations were too funny and silly — I loved them! — but the jokes did get tiring at the end…
Reading Anniversaries: First in a Series & Singles–January Edition
2012 The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross I don’t much remember what went on in this book, except there being a plot to replace the Queen with an automaton clone. Must have made an impression on me because I rated it 4 stars on GR. Oh, and the covers in the series…
February 2018 — A Wrap Up
Department 19: The Rising by Will Hill Several things about this book annoyed the heck outta me, including: I have begun to detest Jamie who is a Mary Sue if there ever was one! Talbot stared at Jamie, admiration on his face. “Bravo”, he said. “There are men and women a lot older than you…
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…
Shōgun (Asian Saga #1) by James Clavell is Full of Quotable Quotes!
I already have the second in the series, Gai-Jin, which I bought at the KUBF’18. This is the edition I own: Have you read any of these doorstoppers? What did you think of them?
Reading Anniversaries: First in a Series & Singles–December Edition
2013 Another review from the past: What I liked: the story was fast paced and flowed beautifully-this felt much more natural than the first book by the author the concept was pretty interesting & kept me engrossed the indiscriminate hate that the Decider had for everybody-he didn’t need a reason, he just hated. What…
January 2018 — A Wrap Up
Blue Dragon by Kylie Chan This is the third and last book in the series, Dark Heavens. It has problems, I admit. All the books are in severe need of editing. For instance, the author describes the characters as stiffening at least hundred times. If they do replace the word, they go for rigid. That…
War Robot-Manning Persons, Fighting Dukes, and Bioengineered Religious Soldiers — A Review of The Warriors Anthology Edited by G. R. R. Martin
The King of Norway by Cecelia Holland 3 Stars A Viking adventure with all the gore and blood that you could ask for. If only I could have been made to care for the characters… Forever Bound by Joe Haldeman 3 Stars Soldiers learning to maneuver robots in the war have to do as…
