I won this book through a Goodreads giveaway, and I am pretty much done entering these, because of the books that I’ve won only one has been enjoyable and every other one has just been TERRIBLE. To be fair, this book isn’t TERRIBLE, but it’s just not good. There’s some promise, but mostly I was bored out of my mind reading this and that’s damning for a book that bills itself as horror. Abomination is Gary Whitta’s first novel, and is set in the era […]
Enjoyable, if completely forgettable fantasy
Thornlost is the third book in a fantasy series by Melanie Rawn, and that cover makes it look so much more exciting then it actually is. The cover makes it look like evil knights, fierce battles, lost jewels, you know typical fantasy excitement. But in actuality the series is basically troubadours in Tudor England with magic. The series follows a group of these troubadours as they progress from basically unknown to one of the more renowned groups in the kingdom. In this kingdom the various magical species (of […]
I’m so conflicted, I want to love this series so much and yet there is just so much that pushes me away
I’m so conflicted on this one. On one hand Cold Days is an enjoyable romp through some crazy storytelling where the world gets expanded and Harry faces some pretty rough challenges. But on the other, reading it was like walking through a minefield. I was never sure when I was next going to be slimed by the male gaze, hit with unrepentant misogyny, or bombed with gender essentialism bullshit. And while a LOT of those mines can be justified with the character of Harry Dresden, […]
And this is why I don’t like reading books by a ‘friend of a friend’
A friend recently recommended this to me saying that it’s basically Harry Dresden set in Baltimore and I should give it a go if I liked Harry Dresden. As I was in the middle of Ghost Story at the time and the book was only five bucks, I figured there were probably worse books I could read. Honestly, I wish I’d passed on the book. I really wish I’d passed because the author is a friend of the person who recommended it to me, and I feel […]