This book is one in a series, however it can be read as a standalone as this particular series isn’t a set of books that contains one single plot line but rather a set of books containing stories about a group of interconnected people. Unfortunately, while I really enjoyed the previous books in the series this one fell a little flat for me. Sharon Shin writes very comforting novels, they’re nice to fall into when life gets a little too stressful. This one was just […]
Patience Didn’t Save Me From This Book
Nope. Nope. Nopenopenopenopenopenope. I can’t think of a better way to tell you all about this book. It’s just… bad. And not entertaining bad, or annoyingly bad, or even stupidly misogynistic bad. It’s just… bad. The characters are trite. The writing is bland and full of telling not showing. The plot is rote and any ‘surprises’ are telegraphed from page one. The book also contains one of my pet peeves in novels about shape shifting humans where human physiology is assumed to be the same […]
Gonna Leave This in The Desert
I think before I start this review I need to begin with two disclaimers. The first, I’m not a fan of Stephen King. I’ve read a couple of his books and they just doesn’t wow me. I don’t hate his books, but I don’t really read them unless they’re one of the few choices in some beach rental and I’ve forgotten any other reading material. To give you an idea, I stopped reading Salem’s Lot about halfway through because I got bored and didn’t feel […]
Satisfying Conclusion to a Comfort Read
These two books are the concluding books of Emma Newman’s Split World series. I read All Good Things before A Little Knowledge because I mistakenly thought that I’d already read the fourth book. Oops. I like this series a lot, but the fact that I could pick up All Good Things and not be lost at all kind of highlights one of the issues I have with it, which is that it is needlessly drawn out. The side stories that happened in A Little Knowledge […]