In 2016 I read more than I reviewed so the challenge for 2017 is to write and publish reviews faster. To that end I’m going to attempt to post one or two more reviews to finish the year. At this point in the year I can no longer recall how I first heard about Margaret Fortune’s debut novel “Nova”. However it happened, when “Nova” was the recommended pick of the month at my favorite bookstore I was already aware of and interested in the title. […]
Just think, many of the universes this dude visits don’t have Trump as their president
There’s been so much buzz about Dark Matter in my bookish circles. I had no idea what it was about except that it had to do with parallel universes, but that was enough to sell me on it. The multiverse theory is so fascinating to me. I’m just a normal person in this universe so it’s comforting to think that somewhere out there I’m kicking ass as the president of the United States. And at least I’m doing better than the universe where I live […]
Beware the dark witch clique
3.5 stars. I needed a palate cleanser after going from unbearably grim with Out to sickly sweet with Romancing the Duke. I was in the market for something less polarizing and more neutral in tone. That palate cleanser was Hex Hall and it did the trick. YA fiction to the rescue! After trying to help out a classmate with a love spell that went very, very wrong, Sophie Mercer is sent to Hex Hall, a private boarding school for magical teenagers that have lost their […]
No, not as good as ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette,’ but still good!
This was a solid three star book for the first half, but it had me by the end. It’s probably unfair to judge this book so heavily in comparison with another, as if it’s not its own thing, but it’s inescapable for me. Like many people, I absolutely fell in love with Semple’s second novel, Where’d You Go, Bernadette, when I read it back in 2012. My love was perhaps stronger because the book came out of nowhere. I hadn’t been planning to read it, […]
You get a duke! And you get a duke! Everybody gets a duke!
After reading the horribly grim Out, I need something lighter and sweeter to wash away the depressing aftertaste. A romance would work, I thought! So I picked up Romancing the Duke from the library and settled in with it. Unfortunately, although I liked it better than Out, the content practically gave me whiplash. I found parts of it too cheesy and it gave me a serious case of vicarious embarrassment. Izzy is a spinster with a book series doppelganger. Her father published the Isolde Ophelia […]
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Ugh. I wish I didn’t have to write this review. I was so excited to read this book and had heard good things about it, but I just hated it. HATED it. The only reason it’s getting two stars instead of one is because the translator handled the prose magnificently. Too bad the story stunk. Out centers on four women who work the night shift making boxed lunches. Masako is the smart one, Yoshi is the kind one, Kuniko is the selfish one, and Yayoi […]
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