All children, except one, grow up. This, however, is a review of a book and not a story of my life, so we’ll be moving on now. The idea of Peter Pan is something that just about anyone can recite from memory. There’s a boy who will remain a boy forever who lives upon an exciting island far in the sky just past the second star to the right where there are fairies, pirates, indians, mermaids, and an adventure around every corner. Not only can […]
Review of Words and Stuff
Some spoilers for Daughter of Smoke and Bone shall be included in this review, as this is the second book of a trilogy. I know, I know: a young adult story split into three parts. Who comes up with these nutty ideas? Nonetheless, in any three act story, you must spend the first act establishing your characters, their motivations, and set the wheels in motion for all that is to follow. In the third act you (ideally) bring character arcs to a dramatically satisfying conclusion as well […]
Dystopian fiction rarely goes this deep
There has been enough digital ink spilled over the past couple of years about our culture’s current fascination with the apocalypse and dystopian visions of the future that it sometimes seems that the apocalypse is going to come not when our ice cream machines can take no more of people insisting that “birthday cake” should be a flavor for anything, but from the keyboards that are so tired of conveying the idea of the end of the world that they decide to just get on […]