I’m falling behind in my reviews again, having finished this over 2 weeks ago but since discovering an epic Reddit thread that has been taking up all of my time. This is even more annoying given that I’ve just realised that with this book I finally claimed a Cannonball (doh! And yay!) A Conjuring of Light starts exactly where A Gathering of Shadows left off. As Red London celebrates the victor of The Element Games, a shadow is stealing through the city, leaching it of […]
Sorry Kell, I’m all about Lila
It’s been a few months since the events at the climax of A Darker Shade of Magic, and Kell is back in Red London. Having saved his ‘brother’ by binding Rhy’s life to his own, Kell is now finding that his adopted ma and pa, the King and Queen of Red London, are loathe to let him out of their sight lest harm come to him, though not for his own sake but that of their heir. And so Rhy comes up with a scheme […]
“Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.”
Oh Margaret Atwood. I wish I could quit you. Seriously. Your books are so damn disturbing. I think Handmaid’s Tale broke my wee brain as a preteen and I have distrusted male authority and religion ever since. This book deals with romantic relationships, female friendships, the other woman and the perceptions of evil. However, unlike many of Atwood’s books, it is not a work of science fiction. Three friends, who met in college gather monthly in mid 90s, maybe early 2000s Toronto for monthly luncheons. […]
Xena’s Got Nothing on Her
I was not expecting to enjoy this as much as I did. I mainly picked it up out of loyalty to Gail Simone. Gail Simone has also been synonymous with Batgirl, but after the New 52, the rumor is that she butted heads with DC, not enjoying the changes they were forcing onto Batgirl, so she quit. Dynamite grabbed her up immediately because the only comic book company out there that still doesn’t get it about women being another demographic that buys comic books is […]
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
I’m a bit hesitant on picking up a book made from a blog. It’s just the content of some blogs don’t really lend themselves that well to physical media. And that’s where most of my problem with this book comes in. When I’m on the internet, I am totally down to read listicles because I’m usually looking for quick bites of information as a sort of short break from something. If something in the list interests me, I have the whole internet at my fingertips […]
I Hope Those are the Kinds of Lasers that Slice People in Half
I was very hesitant to pick up another Stephenson book. I read Diamond Age and was underwhelmed. And, my copy of Snow Crash came with a cover blurb comparing the story to Neuromancer, which was a book that almost made me feel physical pain trying to read through it. So I didn’t have high hopes for Snow Crash, but I wanted to cross another title off the of NPR’s 100 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy list. Little did I know that snow Crash would become […]