While putting away new reader copies, I tripped over this title (literally, I dropped it and then stepped on it….) called Hendrix the Rocking Horse. (Hendrix…rock…rocking horse…. get it?) I was a little cautious about it. The goofy illustrations of a horse (is that underwear on its head?) rocking out on stage was enough to give me pause. I then noticed Murray the Race Horse. Still the wonderfully goofy cover, but far more tame and traditional sounding. I wrong. I read Hendrix first, not realizing […]
Drunk vikings make everything better.
A novella from the world of Kate Daniels, it seems that Magic Gifts should have been read prior to Gunmetal Magic as it takes place at the same time as certain events from the beginning of the latter book, letting us see what Kate was up to whilst Andrea was stomping around the city in beastkin form. However, reading it a little out of order didn’t diminish the experience at all. Starting with a rare dinner date for Kate and Curran, they’re soon up to […]
Even a Gilded Cage is Still a Cage
Y’ALL, THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD! I heard the author, Dhonielle Clayton, interviewed on a Slate podcast one day (I can’t remember which one) and from the conversation thought her new book, The Belles, sounded interesting. I needed a new book, and I love supporting newer authors, so I figured I would check it out. I am so very, very glad I did. Clayton has written a Young Adult book that deals with consumption culture, the Cult of Beauty, the exploitation of power, the power […]
The Second Happiest Place in the World
After fleeing from the Covenant, Annie ran to Lowryland, a Disney World knock off (Disney exists in this universe, and Lowryland knows it comes in second), since being in large crowds would make it more difficult track her, even by magical means. When Annie arrives in Lowryland, she honestly expects to be fully on her own for the first time in her life, having even sent her Aeslin mice companions, Mindy and Mork of the Lost Colony, to Oregon. Luckily, once she’s hired and in […]