This is the second in a series, so obviously some spoilers for the first book are going to be mentioned. For my review of the first book, The Darkest Minds, go here. Never Fade picks up six months after the events of the first book. Ruby has joined The Children’s League and has been training with them. She’s learned to control her abilities, and to fight and defend herself as well. She goes out on missions for the League, while also trying to find a way to […]
Almost worth it for the recipes
I was totally, completely unfair to this book, and I can’t even really say that I’m sorry. It wasn’t great to start with, but then I put it down halfway through because the new Lois McMaster Bujold came in the mail, and duh. So reading half a mediocre book, then reading your favorite author, and then finishing the mediocre book makes the mediocre book seem even worse. It’s a “cozy” “mystery” (double air-quotes because it’s not all that mysterious) about a baker who runs over a man […]
I Think This is the Start of a Beautiful Friendship
I’ve been meaning to start the Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny for the last year. Several of my friends are huge fans and reading their reviews on Goodreads made me sure that I would enjoy this series too. For Christmas, one of the themes of the gifts I got my sister was “first book in a series” and I ended up buying her a boxed set of the first three Louise Penny books. This, of course, meant that I could read them after she […]
As Secret Identities Go, It’s Not A Very Good One
The Nightingale is the story of two sisters caught up in Nazi-occupied France, and how they survive – and fight back – in their own distinct ways. Viann’s top priority is survival, for both her and her young daughter, as life gets increasingly difficult as the war continues, while Isabelle, the younger, feistier sister, joins the Resistance and finds a way to fight more actively as the Nightingale. Except their real last name is Rossignol, which literally means Nightingale, so it feels a little weird […]