Bingo Square: Delicious! This was going to be my “Cannonballer Says!” square until I remembered that cinnamon is kind of a food (spices count, right? I mean you eat them, just not in large portions) and the novel’s whole premise is that a chef has to impress a pirate captain with a weekly gourmet food menu, so the novel promptly got moved to “Delicious!” (and replaced by another pirate themed novel for “Cannonballer Says!”). I definitely understand why ElCicco gave this one 3 stars while […]
Family Matters and Magic
This is effectively one review for two books because really, it should be one book, not two. Let it be known I find these entertaining easy reads, but there are some structural and character problems that are really starting to annoy me. 3.5 stars combined. The continuation of gradually revealing more about the world really develops in Revelations, along with what is pretty obviously the main conflict of the series: villainous wizard want to discover ‘wizarding’ gene and use this information to find and wake […]
A Short-Story Novel Hybrid
The world and the characters in Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Beginnings are so much fun that it really annoys me how short the stories and the book are. To some extent, the two main characters are pretty standard. Lily is bookish, socially awkward, and talented with magic; she’s a wizard. Sebastian is friendly, good looking, a troublemaker, and has little magic talent, but he is a witch. This to me is a tradition buddy mystery-solving/adventure team. What makes them fun is their dynamic and […]
How he trained his dragon
Captain Will Laurence has spent his life in the Navy, and expects it to continue that way. However, being currently embroiled in the Napoleonic Wars, that life soon comes to an end – but not through death. Instead, having captured a French ship, Captain Laurence’s ship takes its cargo as a prize…a large dragon’s egg, whose inhabitant decides upon hatching that Captain Laurence will do nicely for a handler. In this alternate history, dragons that aren’t paired with handlers tend to go feral, therefore losing […]
Could Someone Send This to Chris Hemsworth as a script?
I don’t usually visualize characters that specifically when reading, having vague ideas of “attractive man” in my head. This novel, however, proved the exception, since I couldn’t help but see Rupert Carsington as Chris Hemsworth. More specifically, Thor: Ragnarok Chris Hemsworth with a smidge of the huntsman from Winter’s War (because of the smirk). Rupert is another one of Chase’s hellions, never one to shy away from a fight, someone who will help the weak, surprises other characters with the occasional tidbit of knowledge when […]
A Balloon of One’s Own
I’ve been reading a lot of children’s books lately, which is a delightful situation. And The Twenty-One Balloons, in particular, is a delightful book. I first read this book as a child and adored it, and I was so excited to read it again. The Twenty-One Balloons is the story of Professor William Waterman Sherman, a retired math teacher who’s sick of kids and is desperate for some solitude. He decides to take off in a hot-air balloon, with enough supplies to last him a […]
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