I feel like I’m the last person on earth to read Gone Girl. I finally got around to seeing what all the fuss was about even though this isn’t the kind of book I usually read. You probably already know the synopsis by now so there will be spoilers. On Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth anniversary, Amy goes missing with signs of a struggle and traces of blood left in their house. At first, Nick has the support of the sympathetic public, but they quickly […]
Jane Austen meets Fight Club meets Dickens
Well this one is definitely making my favorite books of 2015 list. I’ve been saving it for my half cannonball. It has everything a person could wish for in a book: Female pugilists! Gambling dens! Orphans growing up in brothels! Handsome fops! Ladies in corsets! Scoundrels everywhere! As a huge Jane Austen fan, it was really fun to read something taking place during the same time period in a completely different context, something that’s not afraid to delve into the seedy underbelly of English society. […]
Darcy & Lizzie – Not a Pride & Prejudice Fanfic
I wasn’t expecting such a clever, enjoyable read. Westerfeld has his cake and eats it with two stories happening simultaneously in alternating chapters. Darcy Patel is a very young (just out of high school) writer who puts off going to college and moves to New York City after she lands a major book deal. Her début novel is about a girl named Lizzie who survives a terrorist attack by pretending to be dead and slipping into the afterworld. In the afterworld, Lizzie meets a mysterious […]
The Perfect Summertime Read
The Royal We is basically well-written alternate universe William Wales and Kate Middleton fanfiction. (That’s not an insult by the way. I’m very much pro-fanfiction and side-eye people who make fun of it. Some of the most famous white dude classic fiction is totally fanfiction.) I’m sure the real Will and Kate story would be a snooze compared to the Nick and Bex story. American Rebecca Porter meets Nick and his quirky cast of friends while studying abroad at Oxford. Slowly they become friends and […]
Thank God it was so short
I should really know better than to choose books just because they’re on sale, but The Plagiarist lured me with the $2 audiobook price tag. Lesson learned. Whatever you do, don’t listen to the audiobook version of this story. The narrator was so incredibly annoying that it couldn’t help factoring into my enjoyment of the book. The Plagiarist is a novella about Adam Griffey. He’s a plagiarist, but not in the traditional sense of the word. He teaches English by day and at night he […]
Courtney Milan romances are the best kind of romances
Full disclosure, I am a huge Courtney Milan fangirl. She is simply the best at writing fun, swoony, smart romances. So when I found out she was writing something modern, I had to get my hands on it. She did not disappoint! In some ways, I actually liked this modern story better than her historical romances. Trade Me alternates viewpoints between billionaire Blake Reynolds and overworked Tina Chen. Tina is just trying to make it through college so she can get a good job and […]
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