Full disclosure up front: This was an ARC that I won in a contest on GoodReads. This book is not released until February. I am a HUGE fantasy nerd. The words "epic fantasy series" make me happy. When I won a contest to read what was touted as the fantasy star of 2019, I was thrilled. Then I read … [Read more]
Ringing in the New Year with Deadpool
The first of my Christmas swag up for review, Side Pieces is the second volume in the Spiderman/Deadpool series, the first of which I adored. Lacking the overall story that drove Isn’t It Bromantic and instead gathering together some of the additional material that’s bookended other stories, Side … [Read more]
most innovative use of a pizza oven 2019
Theoretically I really enjoy mysteries and thrillers. In practice, so many of the ones I start reading end up prominently featuring rape that I tend to avoid the genre. My mother assured me this one featured neither so I decided to give it a shot. The Lucky One is set on an old estate in … [Read more]
The Start of Something that Hasn’t Quite Found It’s Footing Just Yet
The Foxhole Court is the first novel of Nora Sakavic’s All for the Game, which gives an intriguing beginning for what is to come, but unfortunately does not really stand so well as a book on it’s own: it’s clearly just a buildup, and given it’s slim run of under 300 pages, I wonder if perhaps it … [Read more]