Katie: Oh, gentle reader… Phatty has found a treat for us this time. The Sword by Jean Johnson reads like Lord of the Rings romantic fanfic written by someone who hasn’t actually read a well-written romance novel. Think better than E.L. James in that someone is concerned about grammar and spelling, but then they forgot to fix the excessive use of exclamation points. Actually, it reminds me a good bit of Dara Joy now that I think about it. Anyone else read Rejar or Knight […]
Taste this, bitch
Alright, not that I didn’t trust those fellow Cannonballers who said this series really hits it’s stride with this book, but Hell’s bells! I guess I wasn’t truly prepared for the balls-out thrill ride that this installment turned out to be. And that’s with all the machinations of the White Council and it’s battle with the Red Court, as well as the Faerie with it’s Winter Queen and Summer Queen and attendant allies and enemies. I seriously needed a scorecard at times. But it wasn’t all politics and exposition […]
Run, Run, As Fast As You Can!
I downloaded The Gingerbread Girl as an audiobook. which lasted about 2 1/2 hours, so I’m not sure if it’s a short story or a novella or falls somewhere in between. As far as Stephen King stories go, it’s a little dull (she says of a tale about a serial killer), but not a bad way to kill (ha!) a couple of hours. Emily’s daughter dies of crib death at two months old, and Emily goes a bit crazy. She begins running, and doesn’t stop until […]
I need Devour to become a real show on my television, people!
It seems very appropriate to post my review of the Fug Girls‘ most recent book (their baby, so to speak) on the same day that the Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to her second baby. This book starts the night before American Rebecca Porter is about to marry the heir to the British throne, as she’s trying not to freak out about the fact that she’s being blackmailed and her twin sister isn’t speaking to her at all. Cut to many years previous, when she […]