The Guns of Empire is the fourth book in a series, which I read before I started participating in the Cannonball Reads and so there are no previous reviews. I’m going to try and summarize both this book and the previous books without spoiling anything, but my short recommendation is this; READ THIS SERIES. It’s fabulous. It’s an alt-world Napoleonic France with magic and cross-dressing lesbians in the French Foreign legion. This series is a magical-alt-world mashup of the Frech Revolution, the French Foreign Legion, and […]
Modern Arthurian Knights
I am embarrassed to admit that I was halfway through the book before I recognized that this was a King Arthur retelling, on the other hand that could speak to McKillip’s ability to weave story threads around so that only the bare bones of the legend remains. On the other hand, once I recognized the bones as being King Arthur and his knights, the bones became extremely obvious. Patricia McKillip has long been one of my favorite authors, I absolutely adore her writing and she hasn’t […]
A little pretentious, a lot bizarre
Hoo boy. There is a LOT going on in this one. It’s Paris, World War II. The Nazis are trying their best to occupy the city, but it’s a little difficult, because some mystical bomb went off in a café, and now there are creatures (manifestations, or ‘manifs’) from Surrealist paintings and poems walking around the city, casually eating or dismembering Parisians and Nazis alike. Tables with wolf heads, puddles in the street with carnivorous plants living in them, giant stone statues walking around bashing […]
Three Sisters, One Island, Three Great Books
“Doing nothing sometimes hurts more than doing something. Life doesn’t come with a guarantee, which is just as well, because most guarantees are bullshit.” Three Sisters Island Trilogy – Review at KatsCannon Readers of my reviews know I love a good Nora Roberts trilogy, and this is no exception. It’s been a hell of a year for me (well, let’s be honest, for everyone) and so a lot of my reading has trended towards the simple and easy to enjoy. Nora is the best for […]