I feel like my thoughts on feminism are perfectly summed up in Beauty Queens by Libba Bray. Now I won’t have to explain my views, but just hand people Libba Bray’s book instead. Beauty Queens by Libba Bray begins with a word from our sponsors, The Corporation, warning that some things may be subversive. In this […]
Book Review: Abandon by Meg Cabot
April 25, 2011
So, Pierce Oliveria is a bit of a nut job. Only, she’s actually not. You see, she died once, but then came back after 20 minutes or so. While dead, she hooked up with this dude, John Haden who is the Isla Huesos (an island in Florida) version of Hades, God of the Underworld. Anyways, […]
Book Review: Strings Attached by Judy Blundell
April 20, 2011
Strings Attached by Judy Blundell is seedy night clubs personified. With each turn of the page, one can practically smell the cigarette smoke wafting. The year is 1950 and Kit Corrigan has moved to New York City from Providence, Rhode Island in hopes of catching her big break and landing a role in a Broadway […]
Review: Clarity by Kim Harrington
February 28, 2011
Clarity ‘Clare’ Fern is able to see the past just by touching an object. When a murder happens in Clare’s Cape Cod tourist town, it is up to her and the new town detective’s son to solve the murder.
Review: Starcrossed by Elizabeth C. Bunce
January 26, 2011
Digger was born under the thief’s moon. It would seem she is fated to a life of stealing. On the run from a KGB-like police force known as green men, Digger convinces a group of nobles floating along on a boat that she is one of them, a noble. As luck would have it, Merista […]
Review of Plain Kate by Erin Bow
September 6, 2010
Aside from the whole Stalin thing, Eastern Europe is awesome. From Eastern Europe we get nesting eggs, czars, Anastasia, and Baba Yaga. Upon opening Plain Kate by Erin Bow, I was transported to the old country. Of course my brain went to my most pressing impression of Eastern Europe, “If I were a rich man,Ya […]