This is the second in the Age of X series. I really enjoyed the first book in the series, Gameboard of the Gods, and I had high expectations for this story. Fortunately, Richelle Mead delivered. Without going into spoiler territory in this part of my review, I will just say the pace was great, the characters are memorable and I love the concept of several gods battling it out with humans as their pawns. There are so many fantasy books where there are mentions of religion and […]
In which I argue with myself over the feminism of Stieg Larsson, send help
I read the first third of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (the last in the trilogy) directly off the heels of the first and second books a couple years ago, but then lost interest. I started the final book over for CBR 6, but I was still a little worried that I’d forgotten too much of the story (or the sometimes-very-Swedishly-named characters) to jump right back in. The only thing I’d really forgotten was that Stieg Larsson was the king of brief recaps—so many of […]
Stephen King: The Final Cut.
Since I foresee this running long, I’ll kick things off with a more up-front assessment before I let myself succumb fully to the urge to blather on with only a vague aim in mind. After giving the matter a great deal of thought, Stephen King is now no longer a member of my personal Mount Rushmore. Soon after expanding my so-named Holy Trinity (King, Adams, Vonnegut) to a Holy Quadrinity with the inclusion of Rainbow Rowell, it’s been knocked back down to a Holy Trinity, […]
#ReadWomen1964
For the 2014 Cannonball Read, 50 of my 52 reviews will be of books written by women. I am doing this as part of the #ReadWomen2014 campaign and as a way to mark my upcoming 50th birthday. Among the books to be reviewed, I have decided to include a book written by a woman in the year I was born (1964), as well as for each subsequent 10 year anniversary of my birth. First up: 1964. I came upon this novel while searching for something […]