urban fiction – Cannonball Read 17

Sloppy editing, battle that just kept going, and an egregious character death: Peace Talks part B

Battle Ground by Jim Butcher

March 9, 2021 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

Jim Butcher said it was a publishing decision to break apart Peace Talks and Battle Ground into two books due to length and the sharp turn between the two halves of the story. However, I’m not certain this was justified or needed. Last year I read two books that were longer than the combined length of Peace Talks and Battle Ground. And I suspect had the two been published together that the overall book would have been smaller, had the story not needed to be padded out to fill two […]

I thought it was a 3 star but the ending changed it to 4 star

November 5, 2018 by Dome'Loki 1 Comment

The Book of M is the first book by Peng Shepherd and it’s hard to classify. It’s sort of fantasy due to there being some magic. It’s kind of science fiction as it examines the human condition in a near future where human civilization has collapsed. It is definitely dystopian, see previous sentence about the collapse of human civilization. And urban in the sense that a good chunk of the book happens in urban centers. It has romantic themes as two of the main characters […]

Young & The Restless: Ratchet Edition

February 12, 2017 by teresaelectro 2 Comments

I don’t even know where to start with this review for The Heart Don’t Lie by Yasheca Lasha. This book made Young & the Restless seem downright innocent with all these love triangles. I was kindly invited to join the Mocha Girls Read at The Ripped Bodice event with Beverly Jenkins last weekend. The founder of the book club did warn me this month’s book was campy. When the library didn’t have the book, I should I have known something was up. Luckily, I found it on […]

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