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About melanir

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I like books, but I'm SUPER picky about them. To clarify- a three star rating means that I liked the book and found nothing objectionable in it. As 3 is the average between 1 and 5 this means the book is an average read, perfectly competent but not outstanding.

melanir's Reviews:

Jam Packed, Still Boring

March 29, 2017 by melanir Leave a Comment

I believe this book was one of the free kindle books that Amazon Prime members have access to. I have quite a few of them stacked up in my electronic TBR pile and this was the first one I dove into. I’m… not impressed. Maybe there’s a reason it was free? I hope the others are better than this one. This book is aggressively mediocre. It is so middle of the road that it refuses to go places that might take it somewhere interesting. The […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Rhys Bowen, WWII

The Best Wierd Celebrity Best Friend

March 27, 2017 by melanir Leave a Comment

I first became a fan of Felicia Day back during the start of her web series The Guild. I was unemployed at the time and spent far too much time playing World of Warcraft. To say that I related to the character of Cyd Sherman is an understatement, I mean we both played priests so OBVIOUSLY we were exactly the same. I have followed Day’s career more or less since then, and I put her memoir on my TBR pile the moment it was announced. […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: felicia day

The Fiercest Enemies, The Closest Friends

March 22, 2017 by melanir 3 Comments

This is the first book by Liane Moriarty that I have read, and I’m definitely looking forward to reading more of her work. She manages to capture the struggles of daily life, for upper middle-class, white Australians yes, without dropping too heavily into melodrama and angst. The sorrows and tribulations of these characters never felt forced or clumsy and each event progressed naturally from the last and she does it all with a deft, light touch. This is mostly highlighted because the book I am […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Liane Moriarty

If Your Heels Are Nimble and Light

March 21, 2017 by melanir 4 Comments

Babylon’s Ashes is book six in The Expanse series, a series that I love and adore. However, this book took me four months to read. FOUR MONTHS. I kept putting it down for weeks at a time and I feel a little weird about that. I really, honestly like this book. There are a couple of reasons for that, but I feel like I need to make it clear that I really, really do love this book. If I were a tween with a notebook, […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: james s.a. corey, the expanse

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