Is “one and done” not a thing anymore? No, I’m not talking about one-night stands. Get your minds out of the gutter. This is a fantasy/sci-fi blog after all, not romance. Although I must admit, there is a distinction is most notable among the three genres, a distinction that romance has barely touched. I’m talking […]
I am a heartbroken reader. The end of a series is a reasonable guess for my ennui, but it’s not that simple. In the last two years, the awesome Curse of the Gods series has been one of my favorite reads. The protagonist is an accident-prone smart ass who draws five beautiful, strong, and arrogant […]
Pardon my grogginess (and possible rambling), but I just finished a bender, no, a binge. Two actually. In recent weeks, I plowed through Marisa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles, then Chanda Hahn’s Unfortunate Fairy Tales, with more fever than I expected to muster for fairy tales. I’m not much of a fairy tale person since reading them […]
Speaking of trust— Yes, we were talking about trust just last month (It’s about Control). I’ve noticed a weird trust trend. Romance, fantasy, and sci-fi novels share a level of trust that I find impossible to believe. It’s not that the protagonist trusts the villain, although that happens fairly regularly. In Chanda Hahn’s Reign (book […]
I dangled forty feet in the air. My toes, my body–more than half my weight–leaned beyond a thin platform. I tried to hold the steel bar that dragged me away from the platform. Sweat seeped from my skin and rolled beneath my clothes as I swallowed my longing to scream. Only a woman half my […]
Haven’t we met before? Yeah, we have. I’d recognize that wild tangle of hair and quirky disposition anywhere. Why are you shaking your head? No, no. We’ve definitely met before. In fact, I can prove it. You’re a witch, right? Ah, see, you paused. You are a witch. No, that’s not an accusation, but don’t […]
Warning: Spoilers will follow. Can I contract swimmer’s ear from headsets? For the last month, I’ve worn headsets everywhere—in the yard, when I have a spare moment at work, in the tub, in the car (well, the headset covers only one ear then). I’m so addicted to my current set of audio books that my […]
Good grief. It’s 4 a.m. Despite my frequent yawns and drooping eyelids, I’m still awake, still reading. See, there’s this book, an interesting story with a cool description, so I started reading just before bedtime. I told myself I would read one chapter before bed. Then the characters’ emotions engulfed me. The details had me […]
I hate sieve writing, sieve books. What’s sieve writing? Well, in my head, where I’m not so polite, I call them dumb books. I don’t mean dumb premises like a woman with a toothpick saving the world from a hangry koala or a woman needing to have sex with a stranger to stay alive. Those […]
Why not buy a book because of its cover? No, don’t judge a book by its cover? Total BS. Why not judge the book based on its cover? It is designed for judgement and sales. Book covers exist for a reason. They entice the reader and hint at the story. Most often, cover designers’ stereotypical […]
