Last month I read Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and this month I read its sequels Hollow City and Library of Souls which were not quite as strong as their predecessor but still relatively enjoyable for YA fantasy. **Spoilers for Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children below** “I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn’t to run or hide or give up the minute things seemed terrifying and impossible.” So when we left Jacob Portman and […]
A Half Angel Rules Hell and Lucifer gets to Heaven
I annoyed myself when I realized that I’d skipped a novel. This is in fact the third, not the second. In itself, this isn’t a bad thing, except I now know major spoilers from that installment. Then I realized, that had I read some of those spoilers in their story, I might have had to quit the series since a character apparently dies of whom I was quite fond in the first novel. That would have been a bit of a shame (the giving up) […]
Define Skeeve
The best thing about this book was that when I got home from picking it up from the library and opened it, I discovered that on the inner title page was the following: I don’t think I’ve ever actually considered “losing” a library book on purpose before. About a year or so ago, I read one of the later additions to this series and I enjoyed it, so I decided to see how the whole thing got started. Myth Adventures One is a composite of […]
Cannon Book Club: Kindred
I tend to listen to an audio-book while driving, read a paperback or thin hardcover on my lunch break and then save thicker hardcover books for at home. My copy of Kindred was a paperback so it was on the lunch rotation which meant it took me a lot longer to read than it deserved. At this point I think we all know the gist of Butler’s Kindred but here is a quickie synopsis for the lone person who missed all the other reviews and/or Book Club discussion. […]