Uprooted was so good and I bought it immediately after returning my copy from the library. Everything about this book worked like gangbusters for me: the arc of the protagonist, the slow revelations behind the enigmatic “Dragon” character, the FEMALE FRIENDSHIP (squee!), the adventure, the homage to Slavic fairy tales and horror, the magic — everything! Here’s the teaser from Goodreads because I’m lazy: “Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on […]
Abigail + Jackaby, a very good team.
I was introduced to this book via Malin’s review last November. She had my attention with sassy female narrator who does not have a romance with the titular Jackaby, investigator in the vein of a Cumberbatchian Sherlock or Matt Smithian Doctor Who. Add to that faerie folk, mythical creatures, the 1890s, and New England and I’m sold. And that cover art ain’t too shabby either. Your basic plot summary is as follows – Abagail Rook, our narrator, has run off with her college tuition to […]
I’m so disappointed that I’m disappointed by this book.
This review has given me real trouble. I LOVED the first book, liked the second quite a bit, and trusted that Abercrombie would give me whatever I needed to love this one, too. In a weird way that I still don’t understand, this third book in his Shattered Sea trilogy has not managed to meet my expectations, even though I’m not sure I had expectations to meet, beyond that I wanted to love it. I’m sort of devastated that it didn’t work for me. While reading, […]
There is an actual sharknado in this book
There is an actual sharknado in this book. I feel like that should somehow be review enough. I mean… Maria Dahvana Headley seems like a wonderful person and I feel truly awful for saying this, but Magonia is a terrible book, it is unbelievable, boringly crafted and the structure of the story is completely imbalanced. I hated it, I was bored out of my mind – but the cover’s really pretty, so I guess that’s something. It starts out fine. Aza is your run of […]