This is a take-off of the Buffy Summers story during the TV series, but forgets there was movie (as many fans do). Most of Sunnydale is there (Willow, Xander, Giles, Buffy’s mom) but has Buffy as an 8-year-old girl, just coming into her knowledge she is a slayer, instead of the teen she is during the series. Actually, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Picture Book starts off with Buffy “now” doing what she does best (slaying vampires) and then flashes back to being eight […]
A popular thriller worth your time
I couldn’t remember where I’d seen this book recommended and that made me I think understandably cautious. The general summary—it’s about the daughter of a female serial killer and her life after turning in her own mother—made me more cautious. But I gave it a go because ebooks from the library have made me much more freewheeling in my reading choices. And you know what, I’m glad I did. I think I was still reeling from My Absolute Darling (dear christ do not read that book). […]
You remember Alice? It’s a song about Alice…
Alice hated being interesting. (a couple of times throughout the book but p. 287 is where I recorded it.) I didn’t love it. I didn’t hate it. I’ll probably seek out the follow-up books, but I already know that the thing I think needs to happen–Alice becoming the Queen of Hearts–won’t.
Attractively Repulsive
An Exchange of Hostages by Susan R. Matthews (1997) When I read the blurb on the back about a surgeon who’s in training to be a High Inquisitor, someone who tortures people, I didn’t think I’d read much of the book before putting it down. Torturers? Inquisitors? A space-faring government called the Judiciary who looks for rebels and criminals under every rock and extracts “legal” confessions from them? Andrej, forced to become a fleet inquisitor to inherit his father’s title, is young, full of himself, and […]