For all the events that finally transpire in this, book ten of the Nightside series, it all ends up coming off rather castaway and anti-climatic. It actually introduces a few elements from the Shadows Fall book, but only in brief passing and again, just sort of casually. Where it ends is right where book eleven begins, and hopefully with a bigger splash considering HOW it ends. CBR #32 – Elf Yourself
The Literary Equivalent of Rachel’s Trifle
A horrid mishmash of what seemed like a short story collection blended to oblivion and forced into a huge narrative novel. It just keeps kind of going without really adding much to the massive canon. Read this to mark it off the checklist. It’s always a bad sign when the front cover blurb is the author telling you he thinks it’s his best work. CBR #31 – The Literary Equivalent of Rachel’s Trifle
Not as game-changing as I thought and hoped it would be, but still fun.
First, a caveat: I was expecting a lot more from this book than it gave me, and those expectations were not unreasonable. In fact, they are a direct consequence of the way Mr. Bradley structured not only this book, but the last book in the series. I was expecting a sort of series reboot: Flavia at boarding school with a new cast of supporting characters, learning to be a spy and such. Or at the very least, that there should be real reason why he […]
Historical Romance with an Irresistible Force and an Immovable Object
My reviews of the best of Julia Quinn continue with It’s in His Kiss. The penultimate book in the Bridgerton series, if you don’t count the catch-up novella, it has one of my favourite heroines in romance, and the hero is not so bad either. The writing is, as always, deft and witty, and the banter is especially good, even for a Julia Quinn novel. The youngest child of eight, Hyacinth Bridgerton was born one month after the untimely death of her father. Surrounded by […]