What I Liked The Alien Nature of Humans. Since the main character isn’t well… human, the intricacies of human interaction are lost on him. He cannot fathom why a kindly tinker would gift him with his spare cloak or why the other main character would save his hide. He also takes many phrases literally and…
Category: Netgalley
Marjorie M. Liu’s The Tangleroot Palace Hits All the Right Notes for Me — A #review!
I loved Liu’s Monstress series and wanted to try other books she has written. A very good decision! Here’s a breakdown of the stories in her new anthology, The Tangleroot Place. Sympathy for the Bones ★★★★ This one was a reread since I didn’t realize I’d already read as part of the anthology, An Apple…
Short and Snappy Reviews — Your Lycan or Mine, Magic Steals, & The Second Bell
Keeping it short and snappy to give you sneak peeks into three books!
Silly & Funny But Not Much More Than That–A Review of Captivated by A.C. Thomas
Faux LGBTI’ve read reviews of other books pretending to be lgbtq but this was the first time I experienced it myself. The story would be completely functional even if you changed one of the protagonist’s name from Theo to Thea and nothing else! Unsuited Leads & Impractical RelationshipTheo was decidedly feminine and not even the…
Didn’t You Hear? Payback’s A Witch This #halloween
What I thought of Payback’s A Witch by Lana Harper
The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke & Halloween– #madeforeachother
Set on an island in Scotland, this is the story of a single mother and her three daughters. It is also the story of a couple whom time has kept apart. And it is also the story of the women branded witches, imprisoned, mistreated, and then burned at stake. So, you see, The Lighthouse Witches…
A Wrap-Up of the Netgalley Books I Read in May-June 2021
It Came From Miskatonic University: Weirdly Fantastical Tales of Campus Life by Various Authors I requested this book on Netgalley and I’m so glad I did! I lucked out when I found not one but two great anthologies on Netgalley. This one–as the name indicates–runs with a Lovecraftian theme. Different stories in it describe different…
A Wrap-Up of the Netgalley Books I Read in April 2021
Reviews of the Netgalley treasures I enjoyed this April.
A Wrap-Up of the Books I Read in March 2021
The Other Mother by Matthew Dicks I requested this book on Netgalley and I’m so glad I did! Even though the title brings Gaiman’s Coraline to mind, this book isn’t horror. The protagonist has Capgras Syndrome and thinks his mother has been replaced by an imposter. First of all, a very unique premise and one that…
A Wrap-Up of Reading I Did in February 2021
Reviews of the books I read in February 2021.
A Wrap-Up of Reading I Did in January 2021
Live Girls by Ray Garton Live Girls is a short and fast-paced vampire adventure of a book. Don’t reach for it if you like your horror to have deep characterization or be character-driven. Because during most of the book, all the protagonist does is whine, get his blood sucked out, and use one of his female…
A Wrap-Up of Reading I Did in December 2020
Unity by Elly Bangs Like most of my favorite sf movies, such as Total Recall, Mad Max Fury Road, and Matrix, this book doesn’t let off on the action. Our protagonists are constantly on the run and things keep on happening. In short, I liked the fast pace. But like those same movies, this book was…