4.5 stars This is the third book in a series, and I would strongly recommend you don’t start with this one. This review will contain minor spoilers for Cinder, the first book in the series and Scarlet, the second book, so if you’ve not read them, go read them first. This review will be here when you’re done. Crescent Moon, or Cress, as she’d prefer to be called, has spent the last seven years all alone on a satellite orbiting Earth, monitoring communications for the Lunar government and […]
A girl in a red hoodie and a tall, dark stranger go on a quest to find grandma
This is the second book in the Lunar Chronicles, and won’t really work so well if you haven’t read the first one. Start with Cinder, then come back and read this review when you’ve caught up. Really, you don’t want to be reading this review – it’s going to contain spoilers about the first book. Continue reading if you don’t mind, but don’t say I didn’t warn you. Scarlet Benoit needs to find her grandmother, who disappeared without a trace a few weeks ago. Her ID chip […]
Trilogy Tour #2: The Powder Mage Trilogy #1
My first stop on the Trilogy Tour turned out to be somewhat of a dud, and even though all of the books in The Long Price Quartet were already published, I decided to abandon that series and start fresh. Promise of Blood wastes no time in getting right to the action – the king is overthrown in the very first chapter by Field Marshal Tamas, the head of the Adran army and a powder mage. Powder mages fall in the middle of the magical hierarchy […]
Fatale: A murder/mystery with more murder and more mystery
It is raining. Darkly clad people under umbrellas at the funeral of Dominic Raines. One woman stands out, beautiful and dark. Our protagonist is immediately taken with her as she explains how her grandmother had a fling with the deceased – the godfather to our protagonist. This is the scene where Nicholas Lash meets Josephine. We meet these people just this day because this is the day Nicholas Lash’s life changes; people try to kill him at his Godfather’s house and Josephine appears to save […]