I wish the love affair could have lasted, but the final book in N. K. Jemisin’s Inheritance series was such a disappointment for me. There was a good book hidden in those 600+ pages, but The Kingdom of Gods needed a few more drafts and some massive editing to get there. I can’t figure out what happened with this one. The first two books of the series were so tightly plotted with clear character arcs. This one just meandered forever with the main character resisting […]
Family Dinners Are Killer
We begin with an anniversary. A family prepares to mourn the one year loss of a son and brother but there are two problems–the family is so fractured that they don’t even want to be in the same room as each other and two, there’s a madman who plans on killing them all because of the secrets they are keeping from one another. From the outside the family seems to have everything. They have a loving dog, a gigantic house with all the fancy amenities, […]
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman with Asperger Syndrome
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark is a novel about a young and talented filmmaker whose life ended too soon but who left an indelible mark on those few people who knew her and/or her work. The story is told through the various perspectives of these people: actress/lover Allison, brother Robbie, producer George, husband/musician Jacob, college obsession Daniel, journalist Benjamin. Each person seems to have been frustrated by their inability to really know or understand Sophie, expressing irritation and annoyance along with love and […]
Burn to Rise Again
Phoenixville Rising has three intertwined stories spanning different time periods. We’ve got the central story of Tara, Boo and Sketch, teenagers in the ’80’s living in the small town of Phoenixville “where nothing really ever happens”. We have the story of Rebecca Wilton from the Civil War time period growing up as Phoenixville is just starting to grow (her father is responsible for that growth); and then we have the story of Sketch, present day, returning to Phoenixville for the first time in many, many […]
The kingdoms may be broken, but this series is still perfection
This series keeps surprising me. Jemisin certainly has a knack for taking stories in unexpected directions. It’s hard to say if I liked this one better than the first book. I think it may be a tie. They’re both great reads in different ways. The Broken Kingdoms is more melancholy, but not in a depressing way. The plot is still compelling and the new characters are just as interesting as the first batch. The Broken Kingdoms jumps ten years forward into the aftermath of the […]
Not quite sure the 19 Katherines were necessary, but I liked the book regardless.
So this is my least favorite John Green book so far, but the thing about that is that saying “least favorite” in this context is about like saying, “Oh, that chocolate ice cream with the peanut butter swirls really just pales in comparison to the mint-chocolate chip and the Cherry Garcia over there.” You give me the fucking ice cream right now and I will shove it in my face. Nominally, An Abundance of Katherines is about a former child prodigy named Colin who has […]
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