Jane lives a pampered and privileged life, the only child of a wealthy and influential woman. She’s lonely, insecure and immature. She has no real friends, just people who mainly seem to take pleasure in bullying her. One day, she encounters a robot minstrel, one in a new line of highly realistic, artificially intelligent androids and her life is never the same. Though she is initially frightened by the robot, she’s also fascinated by him and can’t put him out of her mind. She runs […]
What if the Scarlet Pimpernel were a teenage girl in a dystopian future?
4.5 stars Set in a different part of the same post-apocalyptic world as For Darkness Shows the Stars, this book is more of a companion novel than a sequel. The two islands of New Pacifica are Albion (think a futuristic pacific islander England) and Galatea (sci-fi revolutionary France). In Albion they have democracy and happily genetically alter their bodies to be their very best selves. Princess Isla is the regent of Albion until her toddler brother comes of age, because while they are big on genetic engineering, […]
*whisper* I didn’t really care much for this one. *ducks* sorry!
I just didn’t like this book. It started out so slowly and boring; way to absorbed in small details that failed to be relevant to me. Georgie McCool is a television show writer married to Neal, in a relationship that revolves around their children and not much else. I couldn’t care about her ambitions for writing her show. I couldn’t care about her husband. And thusly I really couldn’t care about the way her career was affecting her relationship with her husband. She kept blaming […]
The most uninteresting man in the world
Julie Garwood is the author of some of the first romances I ever read. They had danger and suspense, and she’s always been one of my favorite romance authors. I don’t know if the quality of her books have declined, if I have gotten tired of Garwood’s plots, or if my standards have changed, but she’s lost her spot at the top with some of her more recent novels. Yet the nostalgia is still there and I rarely pass up a new Garwood book. Fast […]
Rainbow Rowell is growing up
“You don’t know what it really means to crawl into someone else’s life and stay there. You can’t see all the ways you’re going to get tangled, how you’re going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten–in fifteen. When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems.” (201) Georgie McCool is in her mid-thirties, married […]
“Your mother’s daughter”: Is there anything Lady Juliana Fiore fears being more? Her mother, who had abandoned her sons and her title, who courted scandal, then vanished from her children’s’ lives? In the midst of her own semi-disastrous Season, what will happen when her mother reemerges and scandal erupts once more? Those are some of the questions the lady must answer in Sarah MacLean’s Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke’s Heart. On top of that, her brother is a recently-reformed, now-married rake, she […]
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