The Vaginal Fantasy group over on Goodreads is doing a casual reread of their older books, and since I have no desire to read this month’s (for May) main and I’ve already read the alt I thought I’d read the re-read book instead. Grave Witch is that book and I liked it. I’m even interested enough to keep reading in the series. I mean, I have quibbles (of course) but overall it was a satisfying urban fantasy/paranormal romance read. Alex Craft is a grave witch, […]
For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time.
Wait, hang on a second. [Looks up how many PC Peter Grant novels there are so far.] [Discovers Ben Aaronovitch wrote a few serials for “Doctor Who,” in the late Eighties. Light bulb.] [Discovers that although the book jackets say “PC Peter Grant Series,” whoever edited Wikipedia last prefers to refer to them as the “Rivers of London Series.” Huh, makes sense. Also: spoilerish.] [Discovers there are 6 “Rivers of London” novels so far, and what’s this, now? 9 spin-off graphic novels? And 4 companion […]
“Too Many Books in the World to Slog Through the Ones You Hate”
Revisionary – Magic Ex Libris: Book Four by Jim C. Hines (2016) – Okay, I’m finally reviewing something written in this century and my first five star review of the year. In these real-life days of politics, loss of rights, and impending war, it’s nice to slip into a nice urban fantasy about…politics, loss of rights, and impending war? Of course, the real world doesn’t have people who can perform magic and pull practical items out of books to use in the worldwide fight against […]
Vampires Get Mid-life Ennui Too
Paranormal Bromance is a novella set in the same world as Vaughn’s Kitty Norville novels. However, I don’t think you need to have read those to appreciate this story, though of course reading that series will give you a deeper appreciation for some of what is going on in the story. I really enjoyed it, as it skewers a lot of vampire tropes while looking at what it might be like to stay young while your mind ages. I believe this story is set right […]
He’d spent time rehearsing this serene pose
This was a kind of a placeholder for me. I’m not allowing myself to reread American Gods again, because I reread it less than a year ago, and I love it too much, and the TV series is coming, and it’s my favorite kind of book, so I had to find a proxy, and this looked super interesting. And it was good, but not amazing (nothing is American Gods, goddamnit!). I think the hardest for me was that Ike is no hero, antihero, complicated scamp, […]
Some days I don’t know if I am wrong or right
“My theory of combat is simple: keep it as far away from myself as I can. I am a soft, squishy creature, with lots of moving pieces, and I want to keep all those moving pieces safely contained inside my skin.” -Antimony Price
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