You know the story: fencing, chases, escapes, quicksand, and true love. Now, you can read the story about making the story. But first, read my review of the story about making the story. Find it here.
Get Ready for a Zombie-Punk Infested Battle Royale
‘Zombies and Shit’ follows a group of characters picked out of the poor quadrant of a dystopian future New York, and ditched on a zombie infested island for the televised entertainment of the rich masses. Escape is limited to one seat in a helicopter that will carry the winner to the rich sector as their prize, but who’s going to make it to the chopper? The book is written in third person present tense. This isn’t a narrative choice I come across often and […]
Well Worth the Paper It’s Written On
What happens when you decide not to pay off those Jimmy Choos you bought on your Chase credit card? Chase will attempt to recover the money owed; but maybe you lost your job, or have other bills to pay, or are in prison. Who knows? At some point, it becomes more profitable for Chase to sell your debt, rather than try to recoup the money themselves. One of the amazing things about this process is that the debt, YOUR debt, is sold as a line […]
Growing up sometimes sucks, or why you shouldn’t revisit past favourites
When I was a kid, we’d spend a week with each set of grandparents every summer. I’ve always been a voracious reader, but then I was ridiculous. I couldn’t possibly bring enough books with me for a one week stay, so I’d read whatever the grandparents had lying around. Fortunately for me, my mom’s parents were also readers and always had new books available. My grandfather had a penchant for Robert Ludlum and Larry McMurtry; my grandmother for books that are too “important” to go […]
Retelling the six swans fairytale
I did not know until after I finished this book that it was the retelling of a Grimm’s fairy tale, and I think not knowing enhanced what was already a beautiful and completely immersive reading experience. Sorcha is the seventh child, and only daughter, of the Lord of the Sevenwaters, and she enjoys a wild, free childhood in the mysterious forests surrounding her family’s keep. Unexpected visitors upset her idyllic life and set her on a long journey to places far away from her beloved […]
When Elizabethan London is more interesting than the witches and vampires who inhabit it
Part fantasy, part historical fiction, Shadow of Night is the second book in the All Soul’s trilogy (and you really need to have read A Discovery of Witches first to get what is going on). As a tale about witches and vampires, there isn’t a lot of action or back story on the whole witch/vampire/daemon culture. But this book was full of day to day details of life in 16th century Europe, which was a surprising highlight for me. Shadow begins where Discovery left off, […]
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