So this is book three of the Dominion Trilogy. I still don’t know why it’s called that. I liked the trilogy as a whole, and I liked this book too. It really did wrap up all of the story lines, and it wasn’t too much of a perfect happy ending. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a pretty happy ending, but there are still some things that make it a little more believable. I just read someone’s Amazon review of this book, and they kinda echoed […]
Right In the Feels, Every Time
This book destroys me every time. Everything about it so so achingly beautiful and also so vividly terrifying. It’s a thin and unassuming little book that turns on you about 3 pages in and I love it. Gaiman perfectly captures the reminiscing of childhood and the actual child perspective in the same story as our narrator remembers a terrible event that happens when he’s seven. But Gaiman makes a remarkable craft choice in that he writes most of the narrative from the seven year-old’s point […]
You can never go home again
This is book four in the Spires series but they are only very loosely connected and can be read in any order. This is my favorite of the series and actually one of my favorite romances ever, I’m not even sure why, but it connects with me on every level and it is just so stinking charming. From the Amazon description: Alfie Bell is . . . fine. He’s got a six-figure salary, a penthouse in Canary Wharf, the car he swore he’d buy when […]
Surgery with no pain relief? NBD.
It’s hard to think that there used to be a day when people would willingly go into surgery without anesthesia of any kind…without sterile procedures in place…and without a formally trained doctor. But that’s just a taste of what people faced in the 19th century, when Thomas Dent Mutter practiced medicine. And the marvels that form part of his legacy are more than tangible curiosities in a cabinet. Dr. Mutter was born into a loving family, but he lost both his parents at a young […]