In this year’s quest to get into the holiday spirit, which I must have buried beneath all the shopping, gift wrapping, decorating and trying to meet my Goodreads challenge for the year, I decided to pick up In a Holidaze, a Christmas romance novel featuring Groundhog Day-esque time travel. I really wasn’t sure how much I’d enjoy In a Holidaze since I’m pretty much a Grinch this year, but I […]
Cytonic is the follow-up to Skyward and Starsight, and like its predecessors, Cytonic follows pilot Spensa on a new journey. Unfortunately, this new adventure very much felt like filler for both the series and for Spensa, and I found myself really having to push to finish the novel. Even though Cytonic was very on brand for the series, featuring a lot of the same humor, a new group of ragtag […]
I read the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series for over a year, in between other books. I put off reading To Green Angel Tower, Part 2 because I simply didn’t want this epic series to end. This was a huge change from when I initially began reading the series and barely made it through the first book, The Dragonbone Chair, because I found it so boring. I hated the main character Simon, […]
I wouldn’t say that I hated The Diviners, but I definitely would say that I absolutely LOATHED the main character and the love triangle. I can’t say that I really liked any of the side characters though either. I also felt like Libba Bray was trying to do too many things with her novel at once and many of them weren’t at all fitting for a young adult book. The […]
The Inheritor is one of those books that is so bad, it’s good. This was not my first Marion Zimmer Bradley book, but if it had, it probably would have been my last. Unlike Mists of Avalon, Bradley’s King Arthur epic, The Inheritor is full of extremely flat characters that lack understandable motivations and any sense. If Bradley intended to create characters straight out of soap opera, then she definitely […]