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You remember when I said I wasn’t confused by the family tree in the first book? Never mind. In The Hawthorne Legacy, Avery is still living in Hawthorne House after being named the heir to Tobias Hawthorne’s massive fortune, despite the dangers from both without and within. To try to establish her connection (or lack thereof) to…
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I’m amused by the fact that, in the review of the first book of this duology, I said I was glad I could pick up the sequel immediately… and then proceeded to wait an entire year to actually read said sequel. Anyway, Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross picks up two weeks after the events at the end…
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I received a digital advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Seasick by Kristin Cast and Pintip Dunn. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In Seasick, Yana has felt like an outsider at school, and in her small town, for ages, especially since her…
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In Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous by Mae Marvel, Wil Greene has spent the last thirteen years watching from afar as her high school best friend, Katie Price, skyrockets to massive fame as an actor and director in Hollywood. Meanwhile, Wil’s law career never really happened, as she stayed in her hometown to…
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You’ll be pleased to know that there are just about enough dragons in this book for me! In I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons by Peter S. Beagle, Gaius Aurelius Constantine Heliogabalus Thrax (please just call him Robert) has inherited his late father’s job as dragon exterminator for the kingdom. He doesn’t like the job, as he’s…
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I’m about to go out on a limb, stay tuned. First, the book’s summary. In The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean, Chelsey Calhoun has lived the last fifteen years with the loss of her sister, who died after being abducted. Now, Chelsey is a detective, with a focus on missing girls. So when Elizabeth “Ellie”…
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I finally read more Brandon Sanderson, after saying I was going to do that for… well, an embarrassingly long amount of time! (And yes, this is only a short audiobook and a graphic novel, but still!) So in Dark One: Forgotten, the audiobook by Brandon Sanderson and Dan Wells, we follow Christina Walsh, a music major…
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In The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta, Michael grows up in London, uncertain of who he is. He doesn’t feel that he’s Jamaican enough, or Greek Cypriot enough to identify with either group. And then there’s his sexuality, as it becomes more and more apparent as he grows up that he’s definitely not straight. So…
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T. Kingfisher has done it again! I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In A Sorceress Comes to Call, Cordelia has spent all of her fourteen years…
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I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Love and Hot Chicken by Mary Liza Hartong. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In Love and Hot Chicken, PJ Spoon leaves her PhD program to return to her tiny hometown in…