In Curtsies & Conspiracies, the second of Gail Carriger’s Finishing School series, we join Sophronia Temminnick for her next stint at Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. Sophronia is fifteen now (we somehow missed her birthday) and she is up for her six-month review. She has learned her lessons perhaps too well, as she is now shunned by her classmates. Although disappointed, this does not stop her from continuing her adventures! And an adventure it now is, for not only are we […]
Cannonball Read Review #3: In the Hand of the Goddess
I review Tamora Pierce’s In the Hand of the Goddess over on my blog. This is the second novel in the Song of the Lioness quartet, one of my all-time favorite book series. I don’t gush in this review like I did in my review of Alanna: The First Adventure, because I’ve already said how much I love these books and why.
The innocence of Children let loose upon the world
Beautiful Darkness is the story of tiny sentient anthropomorphic creatures living in the decaying body of a dead girl in the woods. This might make it seem as though the darkness should be apparent, but it appears only in contrast to the beauty of the crisp leaves in the forest and the rosy cheeks of Aurora as she builds tiny shelters from discarded school folders and hands out rations of crumbled crackers from the bottom of a school bag. It is the innocence of the […]
Servile Crocodiles
Imagine Romeo had horns and Juliet had wings and both were combatants in a never-ending galactic war. That’s reductive and unfair, but is the easiest way to describe the exquisite madness that is Saga, Vol. 1. Read the Rest on my blog: Pop Culture Penalty Box.