Regarding the question in my title, that could be on me…I like to read dark stuff. I’m used to it and I like it. This? Not so much. The premise of Jack of Spades is very similar to Stephen King’s Dark Half except without any (possible) supernatural elements. The fact that Stephen King gets referenced throughout this book made it all the more strange to me but in a good way. Where Dark Half is brutal and scary (or maybe it’s not now that I think […]
Starships Were Meant to Fly, Hands Up to Touch the Sky
Ask the Passengers by A.S. King is a touching little book about something I really hadn’t thought about more than just in passing (and really that’s a huge shame on me)– and that is–what is it like to be a teenager and not be exactly sure of one’s sexuality? I grew up knowing that boys did something for me–it was very clear to me at the age of three when I started slobbering on my TV whenever John Schneider slid across the hood of the […]
I Guess I Just Wanted the Forest to be Darker
Hazel and her brother Ben live a small town that edges up against the land of the fairies. As children they were the best of friends, often going off on dangerous adventures in the woods together taking down monsters in a badass brother/sister duo where the brother is the musician who stuns the wild creatures and Hazel, who is the knight who slays the beasts. But even as children, Ben realizes the danger the two of them are in and wants to quit before they […]
Pandora Didn’t Ask for the Box
Malin’s review of The Girl with all the Gifts inspired me to read it (as with many of the books from my CBR this year, because you all write such intriguing reviews). I was not disappointed by the suggestion of this book, it was such a fresh and inventive book that I think will stick with me for a bit. It was horror in the lightest sense of the word, most of the horror has already occurred…and then again, much of the horror is only […]