It’s been a minute since I’ve written a review, and I feel like I’ve forgotten how to do it. Let’s pretend I was never gone and this is actually going to be competent, shall we? So I said right in the title of this review that this is Courtney Milan approved erotica, which is a kind of flippant way of saying she gave it a 5/5 star rating with about a billion caveats. Specifically, I’m referring to this review of The Siren, the first book […]
non-linear narrative fail
You know what’s really fun? Coming up with new ways to “critique” a series that you’re still inexplicably reading even though you haven’t really enjoyed it from the very beginning. Thankfully, this is the second to last book, so I’m so freaking close to being done with this thing. Anyway! #6, Tower of Swallows is clearly the one where Sapkowski just said “fuck it” to anything like a comprehensible narrative structure or manageable set of POVs (although the latter has been on life support for […]
Dark horse favorite YA ‘verse
Something about the original Grisha trilogy has really stuck with me. At the time that I finished Ruin and Rising, the third book in that series, my passion and protectiveness of the main character Alina inspired a ranty, off-topic diatribe of a review about shipping wherein I was basically mad that other readers didn’t appreciate the book and the ending of the trilogy because they were mad their ship didn’t become canon. It’s a silly thing to become incensed about, but clearly something in the […]
Flirting over artifacts and forgeries
I’ve had Bound By Your Touch on my reading list for a long time, probably because at some point it was recommended by Malin or Mrs Julien or both. As per usual, a rec from these ladies turned out to be a pretty lovely romance. Heroine is Lydia Boyce, a spinster bluestocking (my favorite!) who works for her father in the trade of collectible Egyptian artifacts. Boyce Sr. is an academic archaeologist actively excavating, and Lydia is essentially his business manager back in Egypt. She […]