3.5 stars WARNING! This review WILL contain spoilers for earlier books in the series. Do NOT keep reading this review if you’re not caught up, having read all three previous books! There are also some minor spoilers for this book, but if you skip my list of dislikes, you’ll avoid them. Winter was one of the books I was most anticipating in the second half of 2015. Marissa Meyer’s retellings of Grimm fairy tales with a clever YA sci-fi dystopian twist just kept getting better […]
Climbing, forever trying/Find your way out of the wild, wild wood.*
As a fairly dedicated Cannonballer, I am embarrassed that it took me so long to read Uprooted. After Hillary M, yesknopemaybe, narfna, alwaysanswerb, Quorren, Caitlin, crystalclear, Malin, and ElCicco all gave this book either 4 or 5 stars, I should have downloaded without hesitation, or gone out to the bookstore and bought it. But I didn’t. I waited around for my library to finally get it, and put my name on the list. And I forgot about it. And then it was my turn. And […]
I’m So Very Glad I Don’t Have to Date
I got this on a Kindle deal on Amazon – otherwise I probably would never have had occasion to read this book. As a married person, I don’t do a whole lot of dating. In fact, the whole concept terrifies me. Reading this book didn’t help much with that, but I can still say that I enjoyed it. Ansari teamed up with Eric Klienenberg, a sociologist who may also be an authority on the single life, to explore the vagaries of dating in this world […]
Historical Romance with Strong Women (and a Couple of Guys)
This is a previous review updated with the next book in the series… Lady Be Good Meredith Duran writes very strong, character driven historical romance, but Lady Be Good never quite grabbed me. It was as accomplished as readers have come to expect from Duran and involving at the time, but I didn’t really think about it once I was done. That said, I would really like to read the next novel in the Rules for the Reckless series, Luck Be a Lady, as it involves […]