This is the second book in a trilogy, and as such not the best place to start. This review will contain some spoilers for book one, because it’s impossible to write about this book without talking about things that were revealed in the first one. So if you are new to these Holly Black books, go find White Cat – that’s where to begin the trilogy. Cassel Sharpe lives in a world where a select percentage of the population have certain gifts. People who, if […]
A book where the magical orphan does bad things, makes bad choices.
Like many people in the early 2000s who found themselves clasped in the claws of fierce Pottermania, I was fond of trolling the internet for Potter related stuff. Somewhere, on some website (probably Mugglenet), some industrious soul listed a bunch of books to read while waiting for the next book to come out. This series made the list. I added it to my Amazon wishlist pronto, because that’s how I kept track of books I wanted to read before Goodreads was a thing. And then […]
(This review contains minor spoilers for The Blood Guard series, because I can’t figure out how to tell you what I liked/didn’t like without mentioning them. They are things that come to light fairly early in the first book, mostly, so I’m don’t feel like I’m ruining anything by mentioning them, but if you like to go into a book with a blank slate, then you should probably not read this. I will spoil my own review and tell you now: I liked them.) The […]
Not Your Grandmother’s Unicorn
Immortal Unicorn edited by Peter S. Beagle and Janet Berliner (1988, 398 pages) – When I picked this up, I assumed it was a sequel to Peter S. Beagle’s famous Last Unicorn, but I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered it was a unicorn anthology. And not just any unicorn anthology, but a collection of the most unique, unusual unicorns you’ll find anywhere. For example, a unicorn of death, a unicorn of birth, a caribou unicorn, children trapped as unicorns, inner-city unicorns, how to hide […]