Lesbehonest, this one is so much just The Palace Job with a new cover. For goodness sakes, our ragtag gang of intrepid adventurers is going after the exact same magical McGuffin. But I’m going to let him get away with it because the romp is just so much gosh darned fun. I do struggle a bit with remembering where the previous book ends and this one begins but that’s okay. We’re back with Loch and co and war can only be avoided if she can steal […]
Questing, for old folks
Grammar is very important. Without that comma, my title is about looking for senior citizens. With it, those selfsame senior can go on an adventure. And what a wonderful adventure! Unfortunately for all of us, I have forgotten the names of the characters involved but that’s okay. Looking back on my old reviews, I rarely really include character names anyway! This book is set in roughly Arthurian England, there’s even mention of one of his knights. The Buried Giant is also stylistically similar to so much […]
An alternate history I hadn’t seen before
I’m almost caught up! And I’m reading a SUPER long book so I’ll stay caught up. Mothership readers remember than HBO was at one point considering a show called Confederate (helmed by the white-savior-narrative peddlers of Game of Thrones, ugh) that would tell the story of an alternate history of the U.S., a what if the South had won. Underground Airlines has a different alternate history to propose – what if the war had never really been fought, but a truly terrible compromise reached instead? In this history, […]
A magical Oceans Eleven
When I was home a few weeks ago, I talked my parents into watching Logan Lucky by describing it as “hillbilly Oceans Eleven.” It’s hard to not like a good caper – underdogs taking on the man in increasingly clever ways. My reviews on the Gentlemen Bastards series mostly bemoaned the lack of that cleverness and unkindly compared them to the Rogues of the Republic series so here I am, finally reviewing the ones I liked better. It’s Oceans Eleven, but with unicorns! Weekes manages the tough job of […]