Half Cannonball! Charmed Life is the story of Eric Chant (called Cat) and his sister Gwendolen, who are orphaned in the first few pages of the book and eventually wind up living with a mysterious, peculiar man called Chrestomanci, who takes charge of their schooling as well. Gwendolen is a promising young witch, but Cat doesn’t seem to have any magical talent. OR DOES HE? Of course, we’ve seen this before, with a luckless British orphan who doesn’t seem to be anybody special, who gets […]
The Last Time I Encountered Something Centred on a Male ‘Witch’ It was “The Covenant”: This is Much Better
Half Bad. Half Wild. Half Lost. It sets itself up to follow the usual young adult series storyline, yet there was something really intriguing about this series to me, and I absolutely devoured all three of the books as fast as possible. It might be that I’ve never really experienced the mythology of witches presented quite in the way this book does, which made it interesting to me. There is also such a survival instinct present in these books, and a connection to nature that […]
This series is living up to its promise
3.5 stars. I try not to pay much attention to reviews of books I know I’m definitely going to read soon because I don’t want my opinion to be tainted by anyone else’s, but for some reason I had it in my head that this third book in The Raven Cycle series wasn’t as well received as the first two books. Luckily, that was not the case for me and I loved Blue Lily, Lily Blue just as much as The Raven Boys and The […]
It’s not you, it’s me. I don’t like you.
I want to be really clear up front lest I scare people off this book who might otherwise really enjoy it: I didn’t really enjoy this book (although I didn’t dislike it, either), but it’s entirely a case of wrong book, wrong reader, not that the book is poorly written or objectionable in any way. I can definitely see why people would love it, but I think several factors combined together with my personal tastes meant I never really connected with it emotionally. I’m especially upset […]
1980s + Real Characters = Young Adult Perfection
Now we are talking! This was the book club pick for the month of May, and after the letdown (created by moi) over one of Elmore Leonard’s not so good novels Djibouti, I was hoping for a winner. Luckily someone else had a great suggestion waiting in the wings, as they had just finished reading Eleanor & Park. And how fitting, that I finished this book at the tail end of #IReadYAWeek – bonus! This is a book about love, and heartache, and growing up, […]
The head is too wise. The heart is all fire.
Spoiler warning: This is the fourth and concluding volume in The Raven Cycle. Readers starting with this book will get very little out of it, and while I am going to try to keep this review as spoiler free as possible, it probably will reveal some things about the previous three books in the series, which may ruin your enjoyment somewhat. It’s a great series, made even better when read as a whole. The Raven Boys is the place to start – go read it […]
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