reimagining – Cannonball Read 17

“I was born with a different kind of morality. The morality of an animal—of a crow or a fox or an owl—and not of a normal human being”

The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

December 23, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was extremely entertaining. I can see why people keep publishing and reading Peter Swanson books, if they are only chasing the high they got from this book. The other book I’ve read from him was also really great, but if this and Eight Perfect Murders are his best books, and some of the others are apparently abysmal, I might be done with him and will just go out on a high note (unless I start hearing from other people that his writing is back to up […]

Taking a “Dark Take” on a Children’s Classic to the Extreme

October 13, 2018 by Jen K Leave a Comment

Bingo Square (Round 2): And So It Begins I am not sure why I keep trying adaptations of Alice in Wonderland. I didn’t have enough of a connection to the original story or movie as a child to get all the references. It was the one Disney movie that scared the hell out of me as a child, and which I refused to re-watch (or my parents never showed again, not wanting to deal with the aftermath). I was less than enthralled with Splintered (though I […]

Laundry Day is Seriously the Worst

September 28, 2018 by Jen K Leave a Comment

Bingo Square: Backlog This is far from the book that has been in my to read pile longest when all my books are taken into consideration but purely from a Kindle/e-book perspective, it’s definitely towards the bottom of my library. Since I am so late to the game, I doubt there is much I can add to the discussion at this point. The novel is yet another spin on Pride and Prejudice, but instead of telling the story of Elizabeth and Darcy with a new […]

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