meagan spooner – Cannonball Read 17

“There’s no such thing as living happily ever after — there’s only living.”

Hunted by Meagan Spooner

September 8, 2022 by RaRaGabor Leave a Comment

Let’s retell Beauty and the Beast, but make it Russian. Yeva is Beauty. She’s the youngest of three daughters, and the favorite. She would much rather be out in the woods hunting with her father than playing lady’s maid at the palace. But alas, her father is a merchant now, not a hunter, and so everyone lives in town and Acts Civilized. Until, of course, her father loses everything on a bad investment, and the family is forced to pack up and move to their […]

I wish I would have realized this series is not for me before I wasted all this time reading it.

April 20, 2016 by narfna Leave a Comment

I should have known better. I really should have. And I should have kept my big mouth shut about this book. Halfway through I decided to blab to Goodreads that I was actually really enjoying this book, way more than I had the first two, and that maybe juuuuuust maybe I would read a book in this series, and by these authors, that I really, truly enjoyed. The universe loves destroying dreams. Seriously, the first half was really fun in a way this series hadn’t […]

I don’t think I have ever read a really good YA sci-fi book. Do they even exist?

January 18, 2015 by narfna 6 Comments

Ugh. I hate being disappointed in books. This one almost totally missed the mark for me. It was aggressively okay, and the coolest bits I’ve seen done better elsewhere. I knew going in this might be an off book for me, but if anything I anticipated it being more like the last book was: a fun sci-fi romance romp about starcrossed lovers in an alien environment. Well, actually, turns out that was exactly what I got, because everything about this book is echoed from the […]

Next Time Watch Out For Space Icebergs

January 6, 2014 by narfna 2 Comments

A bit conflicted about this one. I pretty much knew what I was getting into with it, but a lot of people had given it glowing reviews, so maybe my expectations were a little too high this time around. And don’t get me wrong, it was a good book. Competently written. Good characters with actual brains in their heads. A pretty interesting sci-fi mystery. A romance. But something kept me back from fully immersing myself in the story. Something about it just didn’t *connect* with […]

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