The story itself is an odd hodgepodge of ideas, mixing cruel noblemen, Scottish Nationalism, mysterious deaths, and the possibility of supernatural forces at work (which in itself is a dubious idea in Sherlock’s world, given his firm adherence to practicality and logic).
My Demon Lover this ain’t. Thank goodness.
Pádraigín: Katie always starts these with ‘gentle reader’. I don’t know you nor do I care to speculate on your gentleness, so… HEY, YOU: This week we read You Slay Me by Katie MacAlister. Amazon’s freaky-deaky algorithm gremlins made it pop up on my So Like, Try This and See What Happens list and I am nothing if not adventurous. (I’m not) Cáitín: I ain’t gonna lie: those Irish names give me fits. None of them are pronounced anything like they’re spelled. Pádraigín: Weird, right? […]
A re-read of Dragons.
On my second time through this book, I have lots and lots of thoughts. Be warned, this is not so much a review as a series of reactions, mostly broken up by character, so spoilers ahoy. Ye’ve been warned, matey. (I have no idea why I’m suddenly a pirate.) Back when I first read this book in 2011, I came to it fresh off my first re-read of the first four books, which I had devoured in the space of about a month. I was also super […]
Darcy & Lizzie – Not a Pride & Prejudice Fanfic
I wasn’t expecting such a clever, enjoyable read. Westerfeld has his cake and eats it with two stories happening simultaneously in alternating chapters. Darcy Patel is a very young (just out of high school) writer who puts off going to college and moves to New York City after she lands a major book deal. Her début novel is about a girl named Lizzie who survives a terrorist attack by pretending to be dead and slipping into the afterworld. In the afterworld, Lizzie meets a mysterious […]