The Banished of Muirwood, The Ciphers of Muirwood, The Void of Muirwood (The Covenant of Muirwood Trilogy) By Jeff Wheeler This is a great little fantasy series. Having read the Acknowledgements, the author did something kind of fun- he took a broad outline of actual historical events and turned them into a fantasy novel. It works, I loved the plot, it felt real and plausible and most of the people were very three dimensional. Finding out it was based on reality kind of helped show […]
Can a Dude Be a Mary Sue?
The Naturalist By Andrew Wayne I picked this book because it popped up as a “because you read…” option in Kindle Unlimited. It’s a Mystery/Thriller following Dr. Theo Cray. Dr. Cray studies Bioinformatics, so finding trends in different environments and how those trends affect the species that occur in said environments. While doing research in a forest in Montana, Dr. Cray is picked up in spectacularly dramatic fashion as a person of interest int he death of a former student. Theo is eventually cleared of […]
Cause we’re going to the chapel and we’re gonna get married…
I’ve read the Bride Quartet before, but sometimes, you just need a little Nora Roberts escapism. And I had forgotten about this series until that we were talking about that stupid New York Times Review of Books piece, and so I hopped on to the library website, and suddenly, I was back at Vows with Parker, Laurel, Emma, and Mac, dreaming of fairy tale weddings where every bride has a completely unlimited budget and nobody has diabetes from eating too much wedding cake. I swear, […]
Finally getting through a few story collections I have been picking at and one brand new one.
American Gothic Tales – Ed. Joyce Carol Oates 5/5 Stars Joyce Carol Oates knows her stuff. Her introduction to this collection her focus on the Gothic as the selection process makes this an incredibly satisfying collection because it’s not all one type of story. So while on the one had you do in fact get a bunch of ghost stories, you also get stories that are eerie or disturbing or full of murder, and you get stories that are off-putting but not directly scary stories, […]