I wanted to love this book. I am a huge Jane Austen fan and am always happy to read fan lit. So I was very excited about the prospect of this book, especially with all of the great reviews that I read. But I hated it. I think the thing that bugged me the most was the author’s treatment of Elizabeth (Zuri) and Darcy (Darius). Nothing about these characters reflected their original counterparts. Elizabeth Bennet is prideful, but she is also polite and kind. From […]
Enticing Cover and Art, but the Writing and Story Itself Could Be Worked More
This is a difficult one, because there is clearly a lot of emotion and depth to what the author is trying to do here, but the problem is that it just didn’t quite come through for me. Her illustrations and artwork are beautiful (that cover alone and the vibrant colours in it are stunning!), and it takes a lot of time and work to create both story and art for graphic novels, but this one here needed a lot more in order for it to […]
2018 – I Can’t Quit You
This last year, like many Cannonballers, I read more books than I got a chance to review and so this final review of 2018, which will end up being my first review of 2019, is a sort of odds and ends. Here in no particular order are books that I read while in China, books I read while on vacation in Northern Wisconsin, and books I read during my fall and spring semesters that I just didn’t have time to write about at the time. […]
Muskets and magic, and females in disguise, oh my!
The Thousand Names has sat on my 2013 TBR shelf for five years now. Each time I would pick it up I would go, “Eh” and set it back down. There wasn’t any real reason for my dislike. My husband had read this and two subsequent books and liked them all. But for some reason each time I picked it up and the knowledge that it was in part about a colonial like military campaign would give me pause and back on the shelf it […]