I share much the same initial sentiment of my fellow readers on this WTactualF did I just read. I was thrust into a world where the players affectionately sniff each other in greeting (as was polite) and kill small children for multiple reasons because you can’t have just one. Just as this tale was at times unsavory, yet at times really intriguing, I’m also of two minds about how I feel about it. To say the characters are unlikeable is an understatement. There’s our “librarians” […]
A solid freshman effort
My introduction to the works of N. K. Jemisin was through her Hugo-Award-winning series The Broken Earth. It’s a series I have been pushing on friends and family since I read it last year because it is a whole nother level of OH MY GOD spectacular and deserves every ounce of praise it receives. Go read it now. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms with what one might call high expectations and was understandably somewhat disappointed. The Broken Earth sets the bar just impassably high and by reading things […]
The more I think about it, the worse this gets
The more I think about this story, the less I like it. At first read, The Cruel Prince is a pretty standard supernatural fantasy for teens. It’s got the Fey girl raised human and two human girls raised Fey, and all 3 are sisters. Taryn and Jude are the human twins, and VIvi is their slightly older Fey half-sister. Vivi of course prefers living as a human much to her Fey father’s annoyance, while Taryn wants to fit in with the Fey, and Jude isn’t […]
Starring a super special heroine who sucks
I expected to enjoy Tithe a lot more than I actually did. A YA book promising dangerous fairies would normally be exactly the kind of thing I’d read with glee, but the rushed writing style really didn’t work for me. Sixteen year old Kaye spends her life moving from place to place, tagging along with her wannabe rock star mother and going to work rather than school in order to pay the bills that her mum is incapable of financing. When her deadbeat boyfriend attacks […]