Category Archives: Book reviews

A Dance with Dragons

Because I’m a pathetic little shit who needs to have her opinions validated, about halfway through the monstrous tome that is A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin, I went looking for reviews on Goodreads and Amazon and … Continue reading

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Wheel of Dreams

Okay. So this is a cheat; in the interest of getting the blog fired up after a few weeks of hiatus. I’m still writing. And writing. And writing. And somehow, the effort of doing the “maintain an online presence” thing … Continue reading

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The Iron Duke

In which China conquers the known world not with cheaply priced chachkes to be sold in Wal-Mart, but with nanotechnology and mind rays…. Kidding. Sort of. In the alternate history of The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook, an Asian culture … Continue reading

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Unholy Ghosts

In which I actually like an urban fantasy novel…. I first heard about Unholy Ghosts over on Dear Author, where a mild kerfuffle (very mild, by Internet standards) went down in the comments over the protagonist’s drug use. I remember … Continue reading

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Stone Arabia

“You all wanna be looking very intently at your own belly buttons.” ~Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, Serenity. The above quote kept running through my head as I read Stone Arabia, a novel with a protagonist given to the kind of introspection … Continue reading

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Son of a Witch

A caravan traveling through an isolated part of the Land of Oz comes across a corpse.  This isn’t the first they’ve seen on their journey, but the others have been “scraped,” the faces of the dead removed with surgical precision. … Continue reading

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The Spirit Thief

The Spirit Thief by Rachel Aaron is terribly derivative. And therein lies its charm. Maybe it’s because I’ve been in a massive reading slump, slogging through my pile of library books, finding mild entertainment, but no real joy. But The … Continue reading

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You Liked It? Are You … A Crazy Person?

Over on Facebook, Smart B*tches Who Love Trashy Novels posed the question: I have many readers who email rants about books they wanted to like but didn’t. Am pondering category of “book rants.” What do you think? Interested? The response … Continue reading

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Magic Bites

Some spoilers for  Magic Bites and The Hunger Games, herein. In which the curse of high expectations strikes. I’ve really been looking forward to Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews.  While I found the novel readable, it was ultimately disappointing. The … Continue reading

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Careful What You Ask For

Sometimes I think the Internet should come with training wheels. Well, for starters, the reviewers were not professional. They were not objective in what they had to say. I found their comments to be subjective and sometimes downright malicious. Two … Continue reading

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