Bea Pants – Page 3 – Cannonball Read 17

Now goodnight moon, I want the sun

What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher

April 3, 2024 by Bea Pants Leave a Comment

What Feasts at Night is the second book in T. Kingfisher’s Sworn Soldier series. The protagonist Alex Easton is a sworn soldier of Gallacia, a land that uses pronouns a bit differently. Alex is what we would consider non-binary. After the chilling events of the first book, (a dread-filled retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher) Alex and their manservant Angus head to their family’s hunting lodge to relax recuperate. They find the lodge in shambles and find that the caretaker has […]

I am the passenger. I stay under glass.

The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee

April 2, 2024 by Bea Pants Leave a Comment

The Expatriates was a big buzzy book when it was first published and has been sitting on my TBR pile for literal years. I decided to read it when I saw that Prime was turning it into a series. I have not watched the series since finishing the book and I have no plans to, which should tell you what I thought of it. I love “rich people problems” stories, but I’ve figured out that the rich people in question need to be so insanely […]

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves”

Confessions by Kinae Minato

April 2, 2024 by Bea Pants Leave a Comment

This is the first translated Japanese thriller I’ve read, and it was a pretty good start for the genre. It’s a story of revenge and the collateral damage that comes from it. There was one major plot point which baffled me, which I will address later in the review. The story is told in a stark, straightforward manner with each chapter coming from another character’s point of view. Yuko Moriguchi, a teacher and single mother, addresses her middle school class on the last day […]

Living Dead Girls

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

March 5, 2024 by Bea Pants Leave a Comment

Come Tumbling Down is the fifth book in the Wayward Children series and features some of my favorite characters and my favorite magical world so far, The Moors. The Moors look as if they were conceived by the classic MGM horror movie makers but their rules are much more bloody and dangerous. It also sees the return of Jack and Jillian Wolcott, who returned to The Moors at the end of book one, with Jack carrying her dead sister with her through their door. If […]

“This is for the people of the sun”

You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue

February 22, 2024 by Bea Pants Leave a Comment

I honestly just thought of leaving the lyrics to RATM’s “People of the Sun” as my review for this strange, hallucinatory story of the first meeting between two global empires. It’s a fictionalized account of Hernan Cortes’ arrival in the city of Tenochtitlan and meeting with Monteczuma. Without spoiling too much, I’ll say there is a critical change to the true story. It’s a picture of a moment in history that bears little resemblance to American history books but is no less worth reading. […]

I am the eye in the sky. Looking at you.

Null States by Malka Ann Older

February 22, 2024 by Bea Pants 1 Comment

Null States is the second book in Malka Ann Older’s Centenal Cycle, a political technothriller which takes place in a future where much of the world is divided up into microdemocracies. Overseeing all of them is something called Information which is like if Google monitored everything. This second book takes place some time after the contentions election for which microdemocracy would take over the supermajority in book one. Ken and Mishima, two of my favorite characters, return in this story. We also meet Roz, an […]

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