This is a deliciously weird book, and if people have love-it or hate-it reactions to it I could not be less surprised. There are often very pretentious and meta conversations among geeks regarding the differences that delineate (with very fluid, hazy borders) fantasy and science fiction. Sometimes, this happens because of “bad” sci-fi, that doesn’t actually explain its science very well, and gaps in the world building may as well be explained by magic. All the Birds in the Sky deliberately takes this idea and […]
The Book of Feels
Rating: 5/5 Summary: The book starts off a couple months after the end of the competition that Celaena Sardothien won, despite being drugged and Cain using the Wyrdkeys to get more power. Celaena goes around pretending to do the King’s dirty work, but she’s secretly helping these victims escape. That is until her next victim is the courtesan Archer Finn, who used to train with her at the Assassin’s keep and is dazzlingly gorgeous. Celaena begins to unearth a rebel group that Archer claims to […]
Repetitive sequel adds nothing to the series
Shifter is the third book in Alma Alexander’s Were Chronicles, and is unfortunately the weakest book so far. The first book, Random, is the single most unique were-story I’ve ever read and I’ve read a lot of them. Wolf, the second book was equally as fascinating, though less unique as the were-creatures in this book were of the were-wolf variety. However, it was still a really good sequel to Random. This one? I don’t know, it was disjointed and very repetitive for the events in both […]
I Am Going to Save the World and No One Knows it’s Ending
Rating: 4.0/5 Summary: Rachelle is a bloodbound and she must serve the king or be hunted. Being a bloodbound means she is faster and stronger than humans, but not quite as strong as a forestborn. Rachelle was apprenticed to her aunt as a woodwife, people who weave charms of protection against the Great Forest. Upon becoming a bloodbound, Rachelle is now the very thing she had been fighting. When the King assigns her to guard his son Armand, Rachelle is loath to do so, until […]