Shadow is serving time in prison, patiently keeping his head down and counting the days until his release. He longs to get home to Laura, his travel agent wife and passes the time learning coin tricks and dreaming of what they will do together once he’s out of jail. Only a few days before he’s due to be released, Shadow is told that Laura was killed in a car accident, along with Shadow’s best friend Robbie, whom Laura was apparently having an affair with. As […]
Rainbow Rowell + YA fantasy = Perfection
Oh, Carry On, how do I even begin to do you justice? I’ll just have to muddle through and hope for the best. Simon Snow is an orphan, forced to spend his summers in various group homes around Britain. The rest of the school year he spends at the Watford School of Magicks, where he’s just returned for his very final year (but not before having to behead a goblin trying to kill him on the way there). Simon Snow is the Chosen One of […]
A cozy romance with some history thrown in
This one didn’t leave much of a lasting impression, but it was a perfect read for the mood I was in. The main character Nicola lives in present day Great Britain working in a gallery, but she has a secret. When she touches objects, she can sometimes see the history of its previous owners. When a woman comes into the shop claiming to possess a wood carving given to her ancestor by Catherine the Great, Nicola gets a short glimpse of Anna, the woman’s ancestor. […]
I’ll never doubt Rainbow Rowell again
I don’t usually like stories within stories. I really resist it when an author expects me to be as invested in the same fake literature/tv series/ movie/etc as their characters are. So, while I loved Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, the Simon Snow series Cath obsesses over was my least favorite part. It’s an understatement to say I was skeptical about Carry On from the first time I heard Rowell was planning a full length Simon Snow novel, but I am soooooo glad I gave this one […]