I probably shouldn’t have liked this as much as I did. The plot was silly, the characters have turned into caricatures, and since it takes place BEFORE the last book that I read in the series, there wasn’t much suspense. But dammit, Jones, I do love you. 8:45 P.M. Realize there have been so many times in my life when have fantasized about going to a scan with Mark or Daniel: just not both at the same time. Bridget sleeps with Mark & Daniel within the […]
Well, it was worth the quarter I paid for it…maybe
I bought this book at a garage sale for twenty-five cents, then forgot I owned it for 3 years. I rediscovered it last week while looking for something mindless to read, and it definitely fit the bill! Eve and her two sisters have a senile, sex-addicted father and a mother who disappeared years ago. Eve deals mostly with the father, as her older sister’s a high-powered magazine executive, and the younger sister is a flake. The whole book, as you may have guessed, consists of […]
“Because not all monsters were monsters in the beginning. Some are monsters born of sorrow.”
This was pretty good. Not as good as A Man Called Ove, but still pretty good. “People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will “lessen as time passes,” but it isn’t true. Sorrow and loss are constant, but if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn’t be able to stand it. The sadness would paralyze us. So in the end we just […]
“She was a Librarian, and the deepest, most fundamental part of her life involved a love of books.”
This book was a lot of fun, if not quite as good as I expected. I think a lot of that is due to it being consumed by world-building, as the first book of a series, so I’m eager to see if the second one improves on that as far as plot goes. “And she didn’t want great secrets of necromancy, or any other sort of magic. She just wanted—had always wanted—a good book to read. Being chased by hellhounds and blowing things up were […]