When I first discovered historical fantasy (or mannerpunk, or whatever you want to call it), I felt the way I imagine a person does when stumbling upon a hitherto unknown sexual kink. Oh wow, I did not know this was a thing, but I LIKE it! Marissa Doyle’s debut novel, Bewitching Season, is a light and frothy confection that (if I’m being honest) wasn’t quite as good as I remember it. This book and its sequel, both published in 2009, follow the stories of the […]
Fantasy! Romance! Dragons!
4.5 Stars This book is SO good. As I was reading it I had a lot to say about it, but now that I’m actually writing it up I’m struggling. I will try to make this coherent. Disclaimer: I am not a fantasy reader. I’m not opposed to magic and other worlds in my books, but it’s not what I gravitate towards and not something I read regularly. With that said, if you read fantasy regularly maybe you won’t be as blown away by this […]
Lost Between a Doctor and a Towel
For some, Douglas Adams is just the guy who wrote that weird book about towels, the Universe and everything else, but a few might know him for what he really is: a great sci-fi writer, working on several episodes of Doctor Who and, of course, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. In Dirk Gently, we get to see, as described by the author “a kind of ghost-horror-detective-time-travel-romantic-comedy-epic, mainly concerned with mud, music and quantum mechanics”. It basicly sums up the idea behind the plot that […]
Book Club Reads Fantasy – Voting
Voting for this book club is now closed. Check out our Book Announcement and join us for Book Club on March 8, 2017! Last summer Book Club tackled Science Fiction, and as promised back then, we are going to take on Fantasy this year. Right now, in fact. Fantasy will be our first genre of the year (with Non-Fiction, Non-Western Literary Fiction, and Plays rounding out the year). I have pulled together five possible choices, and since part of the overarching goal of the Book […]