Previously on Supernatural… Attempted rape, attempted sexual assault bait-and-switch, the destruction of two cities, a spouse gets turned into table salt, incest, and a lot of PattyKates screaming. Let’s see what the Creator has in store for us this week… God makes good on his promise to Sarah and gets her knocked up. The bouncing baby boy is named Isaac (“laughter” which, as an aside, is an awesome name) and Sarah, true to form, is all CHECK IT BITCHES! I GOT ME A BABY FROM […]
Retribution Falls: unlikable characters, very likable banter
A friend recommended this book to me, with the promise that it was hilarious, that his girlfriend kept reading lines aloud. He wasn’t wrong, and I found myself doing the same thing to my boyfriend. This is a light, fairly fast-paced read, and highly entertaining. The slight problem that I had with it was that the characters are, for the most part, extremely unlikable and unsympathetic. Now, I like morally difficult characters (cf. everyone in Game of Thrones except Jon Snow and Daenerys Stormborn). But […]
And she comes rolling on through like waves
Paper Valentines is a ghost story murder mystery about grief. If I’m perfectly honest, I think there are probably one too many elements and it would have been a stronger story without the background serial killings/murder mystery. However, it’s moody and atmospheric enough that I’m willing to forgive the excess plot. I really enjoyed it is what I’m saying. One warning though, this book deals pretty intensely with anorexia, it doesn’t glorify the disease but I know that for some people the mere mention of […]
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving low…Go ask Alice, I think she’ll know
Ok so this is allegedly the penultimate book in the Insanity series. I just downloaded book seven, because book six leaves you hanging a little bit. According to the author, it’s the only book without a prologue (or two). The premise of this book is basically a worldwide chess game, and eventually a bunch of other chess games and chess related shenanigans. The Chessmaster challenges the leaders of the world to chess matches. It’s allegedly for charity or something? He tricks them though, because he […]