After an epic five novels, Karen Marie Moning switches the narrator to Dani “Mega” O’Malley in Iced. The previous entries focused on MacKayla “Mac” Lane, new to all things magic and unknowingly gifted with magical powers to fight evil & SEXY AF fairy princes who want to destroy our world. These Unseelie princes nearly do by tearing a hole between their magical dimension and ours to let in all kinds of nasty monsters. During her battles against the apocalypse, Mac befriends a 13 year old girl named Dani […]
“It was not the sea that was cruel, but the people…”
Both JB and Boss read The Lifeboat and I think that they both liked it more than I did, although I just asked Boss and he said after having been away from it for awhile, he felt it was fine but kind of flat. JB said it was a fascinating look at human behavior, and I suppose he’s right, but it just didn’t set me on fire the way I think it did him. I think that this is one of those books that you […]
That’ll do.
I got this as one of the Kindle Deals of the Day or something like that. Cheap, portable, and dark and twisty–a perfect vacation read. I read Kubica’s The Good Girl and can’t remember a darn.thing.about.it, but I know I liked it. I don’t even care how stupid that sounds…sometimes you just want a page-turner for the pool chair. I started Pretty Baby with the same expectations and it didn’t disappoint. Heidi, a perpetual helper, sees a homeless girl with an infant on the L platform and, […]
I mean, but really he’s just saying what we’re all thinking, right?
I had to start this review by searching for the differences between sociopaths and psychopaths. Never say that I don’t strive for accuracy! Joe Goldberg is a psychopath. We met him in Kepnes’ GLORIOUS debut novel, You, which I easily 5-starred in 2014. If you haven’t already read it, I highly recommend that you do so. At the time I described it as “Lolita for the Twitterverse”, and the story of Joe Goldberg’s obsession with Guinevere Beck really set the unlikeable, unreliable narrator trend on […]