I’ve loved Veronica Mars for forever, so I can’t keep away from anything set in that world I can get my hands on. This is the second book in the Veronica Mars world and like the first, its events take place after the VMars movie. The Neptune Grand owners come to Veronica after a woman claims a Neptune staff member assaulted her and left her to die. Veronica’s job is finding out if this woman’s story is truth, lies, or something in-between. Unfortunately that’s easier […]
Twisted Soulmates
I feel like I’m the last person on earth to read Gone Girl. I finally got around to seeing what all the fuss was about even though this isn’t the kind of book I usually read. You probably already know the synopsis by now so there will be spoilers. On Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth anniversary, Amy goes missing with signs of a struggle and traces of blood left in their house. At first, Nick has the support of the sympathetic public, but they quickly […]
Jane Austen meets Fight Club meets Dickens
Well this one is definitely making my favorite books of 2015 list. I’ve been saving it for my half cannonball. It has everything a person could wish for in a book: Female pugilists! Gambling dens! Orphans growing up in brothels! Handsome fops! Ladies in corsets! Scoundrels everywhere! As a huge Jane Austen fan, it was really fun to read something taking place during the same time period in a completely different context, something that’s not afraid to delve into the seedy underbelly of English society. […]
Darcy & Lizzie – Not a Pride & Prejudice Fanfic
I wasn’t expecting such a clever, enjoyable read. Westerfeld has his cake and eats it with two stories happening simultaneously in alternating chapters. Darcy Patel is a very young (just out of high school) writer who puts off going to college and moves to New York City after she lands a major book deal. Her début novel is about a girl named Lizzie who survives a terrorist attack by pretending to be dead and slipping into the afterworld. In the afterworld, Lizzie meets a mysterious […]