Save Marissa Meyer, author of the fantastic sci-fi/fairy tale mashup of the Lunar Chronicles, is back with a retelling of the story of the Queen of Hearts from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Catherine is a Lady who is about to be engaged to the King of Hearts. Unfortunately, this isn’t the life she wants. Her dream is to open a bakery, which is improper for a Lady. When the King hires a new jester, Jest, Catherine falls in love. You can read my full review […]
Par la souffrance, la vertu – Virtue through suffering
4.5 stars Spoiler warning! This is a direct continuation of part one of The Belhaven series, How Not to Fall, and while the reader is given enough context to understand what happened in the previous book, it will not make as much sense or have the emotional resonance for the reader unless you have read the first one. Seriously, these books are two halves of a whole story. Also, you will probably get spoilers for the first book in the series in this review. So […]
Werewolves are a tad possessive
I enjoyed reading Mrs. Julien’s hilarious Kresley Cole book reviews during previous cannonball reads. I read Shadows Claim last year when it was a Vaginal Fantasy pick, but didn’t really get fully hooked. So when I was in The Ripped Bodice, I decided to tackle one of the first books in the series for my trip to Greece. A Hunger Like No Other follows Lachlain, a lykae (werewolf) Scottish warrior on a journey of love and revenge. The male kind of his species mate for life when first meeting said […]
Tudor royals, books, shapeshifters and all manner of complications
According to history, when King Edward VI, Henry VIII’s son died young and childless, certain noblemen who wanted to make sure a ruler of the Protestant faith ruled the country put his young cousin Lady Jane Gray on the throne. She ruled for nine days, before Mary Tudor arrived with her armies, removed the poor girl and had her beheaded. This book bears a vague resemblance to that story. In the England of this story, the conflict in England isn’t between Catholics and Protestants, it’s […]