Full disclosure – I listened to the Audible version of this book whilst painting my daughter’s bedroom. It was a good light read for that sort of thing. (I did claim that my last book review would be the last one about zombies – and it was. While this book does have zombies, they are side characters and it’s not creepy…) Cute book – as cute as the cover. Spunky out of work magazine writer Zoe Norris (oops …she had an affair with […]
Fortunately, there’s no page limit.
Yeah, that’s right, I’m reviewing a short kids book. A girl’s gotta make up time somehow. However, I did throw in a review for Chu’s Day as a bonus.
This review is of no relevance to the cause of Light
Target: Sergei Lukyanenko’s Twilight Watch. Translated by Andrew Bromfield (The Watches pentalogy #3) Profile: Modern Fantasy, Suspense, Horror Sergei Lukyanenko’s Watches books have utterly captivated me. The moody atmosphere and strong characterization drive an uncompromising examination of good and evil. Oh, and the story isn’t bad either. Where Day Watch acted as the natural extension of Night Watch, exploring some of the same material from the perspective of Darkness, Twilight Watch almost starts from scratch with a new, overriding storyline that runs through all three sections of the book. While the […]
Fallen – Angels, Past Lives, and Humans: Oh My!
What’s better than a book about angels? A book about fallen angels. So I think, anyway. Angels typically annoy me with their goody-two-shoes-ness. Fallen is about those fallen ones, but most of the book doesn’t actually involve them. Being the first of a series, this is the set-up book where you’re introduced to the heroine Luce, short for Lucinda. I was hoping for Lucifer, personally, but we can’t always get what we want. This book is really about her and the beginnings of what hopefully turns […]
my last zombie book
Ok…this one has done it for me – no more zombie books. I was never really a fan of the genre – rotting shamblers don’t do it for me the way that sexy vampires can. And this book ….oy… what was I thinking? I heard about it from the IO9 Book club – and I really respect IO9. Guess I didn’t read enough of the comments or perhaps did but disregarded them. OK – so this is a horror book. True horror. Not […]
#9 Kushiel’s Dart: A new favourite for the bookshelf…
Phedre was abandoned by her family to the Night Court, where the religion-sanctioned courtesans live and train to fulfill the precincts of their pleasure-promoting god. Yet she is destined to tread a more unusual path: a scarlet mote in her dark eyes marks her as an anguisette, one who derives pleasure from pain. When she is adopted by Anafiel Delaunay, a prominent member of the royal court who realizes what she is, she is trained not merely for pleasure, but also as a scholar… and a spy. […]