Sometime in the first decade of the 20th Century, young Miss Lucy Honeychurch is in Florence with her older, constantly worrying cousin Charlotte Bartlett as companion and chaperone. When they discover that the rooms they’ve been assigned have no nice view, Lucy is disappointed. An older gentleman, Mr. Emerson, offers to trade them, as the rooms he and his son were given have lovely views. “Ladies care about that sort of thing, men do not”. Miss Bartlett is worried about the impropriety of the trade, […]
Difficult or challenging things, yes. I wouldn’t really say impossible.
Dan Cereill (pronounced “surreal”, NOT “cereal”) is not having an easy time of it. He and his mother are left shocked, abandoned and nearly penniless after Dan’s father simultaneously announces that his business has gone bankrupt and that he’s gay. Dan’s great-aunt Adelaide recently passed away, the terms of her will stating that Dan and his mother could live in her house (although the house and it’s contents were left to the National Trust). The house is ancient, drafty, cold as hell and reeks overwhelmingly […]
The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they are always lying
This is book 3 of a trilogy. This review, and even the book summary, is likely to contain spoilers for previous books in the series. Skip this until you’re caught up. This is book 3 of a trilogy. This review, and even the book summary, is likely to contain spoilers for previous books in the series. Skip this until you’re caught up. In the third and final volume of Holly Black’s Curse Worker trilogy, Cassel has forced his older brother Barron into working for the […]
In which McGuire introduces a whole new faerie kingdom Toby can be nearly killed in
This is book 9 in the October Daye series. Standard disclaimers about spoilers if you’re not caught up. Book one, Rosemary and Rue, is the place to start if this series is entirely new to you. It’s also the September 2015 pick for the Vaginal Fantasy book club. Just as October “Toby” Daye, changeling knight and hero of multiple faerie kingdoms seems to be catching a break, having things go her way for a change, there are unexpected developments in the court of queen Arden […]
I would watch this on TV
3.5 stars Margaret “Maggie” Silver learned to pick her first lock when she was barely past the toddler stage, which is unsurprising since both her parents and all their friends are spies. Maggie’s father can tell her she’s grounded in more than twenty languages, but she’s never actually gone to school and rarely interacted with someone her own age. So when the Silver’s current mission requires her to go to a fancy prep school in Manhattan, Maggie is actually more out of her depth than […]
Stranger in a strange land
3.5 stars This is the second book in the Remnant Chronicles, following directly on from The Kiss of Deception. It is impossible for me to review this without spoilers for the first book, hence, skip this if you’re not caught up. Princess Lia is a prisoner in Venda, surrounded by what she has been taught are violent and backward barbarians. Having accepted her feelings for Rafe, she may never have a proper chance to act on them, as they are both captives and the Komizar, […]
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