I’ve read a whole bunch of reviews of More Than This over the past few years, but none of them ever really say what that book is about. Everyone talks about how much they like Patrick Ness, and that he really nails the voice of a troubled teen. But nobody mentions the plot of this book. For good reason, I’ve learned. I just finished reading this and I’m going to be spilling some spoilers. So really, don’t read this if you ever plan on picking […]
The Madness of Lord Radnor
I’ve been looking forward to this book since I finished the first one by Cat Sebastian, The Soldier’s Scoundrel, which I reviewed here earlier. This book is about Georgie Turner, the younger brother to Jack Turner in the first book. Georgie is a thief, born and bred on the streets of London. He has no misconception of what he is and where his desires lay. His only code of conduct is not to take advantage of anyone who is naive and that is what gets […]
An incredibly confusing book
I’m not entirely sure what I was expecting when I picked up this book. It certainly wasn’t whatever The Devourers ended up being. I’m still not entirely sure what I actually read. Let me try to provide a plot summary. While out for an evening in Kolkata, India, lonely college professor Alok runs into a mysterious and handsome stranger who claims to be a half-werewolf. He weaves a tale that utterly beguiles Alok and the professor becomes obsessed with both seeing the nameless stranger again, […]
A historical romance with a reluctant duke and a sharp-shooter
4.5 stars Miss Elise DeVries is a sometime stage actress, sometime scandal fixer, working as one of the chief agents in the company of Chagarre and Associates, an exclusive firm working clandestinely for the upper classes. They can fix or bury pretty much any scandal there is, provided a high enough payment is offered. Elise is a master of disguise, used to wearing a multitude of faces, nearly always playing a part. Only with her fellow associates, Miss Ivory Moore, also known as the Duchess […]
But God,/doesn’t she wear/the world well?
This is my first book of poetry, ever. Or rather, pamphlet, because it is so thin. I bought it because of the Beyonce hype behind Warsan’s words, because I’d heard her name over and over, because her name is now tangibly linked to words like “refugee” and “woman”, because a Pajiba friend posted an excerpt from her poem on Facebook, because they actually (actually!) had it in a Bangkok bookstore, a thin sleeve of paperback tucked amidst hundred-page hardcovers. I read it at home, and […]
Neil Gaiman narrates the myths of my people
4.5 stars When it was announced that Neil Gaiman was doing a book of Norse myths, I was, not to put to fine a point on it, giddy with excitement. I’ve always been a mythology fangirl. I love the Greek and Roman myths, the Egyptians, but as I am Scandinavian, the Norse myths are obviously among the ones I grew up reading, even as a young child. I had several books of the Danish comic book Valhalla, so I knew several of the stories before […]
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