This review is for the audiobook version of The Forbidden Rose, third book in the Spymasters series by Joanna Bourne, read by Kirsten Potter. You guys were right, the series gets better, and this one is the best yet. This time we go back to the Reign of Terror, and see how Doyle met his Maggie. Marguerite de Fleurignac, a brave noblewoman who spends her evenings evacuating families to spare them from the guillotine, is found alone in her burned out chateau by Guillome de Breton, an […]
WTF did I just read? A spoiler-filled rant.
I’ve read a whole bunch of reviews of More Than This over the past few years, but none of them ever really say what that book is about. Everyone talks about how much they like Patrick Ness, and that he really nails the voice of a troubled teen. But nobody mentions the plot of this book. For good reason, I’ve learned. I just finished reading this and I’m going to be spilling some spoilers. So really, don’t read this if you ever plan on picking […]
Go ask Alice, when she’s ten feet tall. And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you’re going to fall…
OK so this was another weird one. Kids around England have their heads chopped off and stuffed into watermelons. The Muffin Man turns out to be the killer, and he’s got some kind of social commentary about fat, sugar, and salt? The question mark denotes my confusion. There are puzzles to solve, but I (and Alice) don’t know what’s real, and what’s imagined. At some points Alice wakes up crippled in the asylum, but neither of us know if that’s her reality, or if the […]
Resistance isn’t always Futile
This book is due back at the library today, so this review is written in a bit of a rush. This is one of my infrequent forays into science fiction. I really enjoyed it and may have to explore further. I read that this is a “space opera” a term I am unfamiliar with, but it makes sense in that Ancillary Justice is a big story with heroines and villains. Ancillary Justice is set in an intergalactic empire of humanoids known as the Raadchai. The […]