I didn’t plan on liking this book. Seriously. Despite a crazy schedule, I signed up to review five books for the RITA® Reader Challenge–and then I signed up to take an intense college course so I could finish my degree early. Yeah. I thought about dropping this book from my list as it seemed the least appealing to me, but I decided that I made a commitment and that I could manage. Of course, life has … Continue reading Bitter Spirits by Jenn Bennett→
It Started With a Scandal by Julie Anne Long is still $1.99. This is book 10 in the Pennyroyal Green series, which is a superb historical series that mixes small town dynamics with the Regency – and two feuding families that like to score points off one another.
This book came out in March 2015, so I think this is the first time it’s been on sale. It has a 4+ star average on GR, too. I’ve read this series out of order and been fine, but hey, the whole series is pretty spiffy, and the previous 9 books before this on are available on Scribd!
This post contains: SPOILERS FOR: Game of Thrones, Outlander, and Mad Max: Fury Road HUGE TRIGGER WARNING FOR: Discussion of rape, also brief mention of torture, murder, imprisonment. But mostly for rape. Also a lot of words. But that’s a good thing! Recently I saw Mad Max: Fury Road (Our extremely positive review is here). Mad Max: Fury Road, which I’ll henceforth refer to as Fury Road, involves women escaping from sexual slavery. Meanwhile, during … Continue reading Mad Max: Fury Road Makes Your Rape Arguments Invalid→
Elyse, Carrie, and I all went to see Andy Dwyer Dinosaur Guy Jurassic World this weekend, and ho, boy, do we have things to say. What follows is a somewhat spoilery discussion about what we liked, what we didn’t, what there needed to be more of (dinosaurs) and less of (people). Here’s a basic summary of the plot: Located off the coast of Costa Rica, the Jurassic World luxury resort provides a habitat for an array … Continue reading Movie Review: Jurassic World→
Long back story shortish: Many millennia ago a group of warriors stole the dim Ouniak from the gods of the Greek variety and opened it. Why did they do this? To teach said gods a lesson – because that always turns out well. Their widdle feelings got hurt when a female warrior was picked to guard the box – that would be Pandora. Pride, as they say, goeth before a fall and now, I believe, … Continue reading The Darkest Touch by Gena Showalter→
This is the 11th book in Gena Showalter’s Lords of the Underworld series but the first that I’ve read. I’d heard good reviews for her earlier books in this series so I was eager to read one and I’m sad to say that I was underwhelmed. Maybe I got my hopes too high but it didn’t knock me out of the park. The reader is dropped into the middle of the plot. Torin, the hero, … Continue reading The Darkest Touch by Gena Showalter→
What a delight! I’m not a fan of paranormals with demons and werewolves, but give me a time-travel and I’m all over it. The problem I usually have with time-travels, though, is the believability in how the time travel happens. This book is refreshingly funny, with a great twist on the usual time travel devices. Tensley, against her better judgement, visits a psychic who offers her a chance for a do-over, to correct her greatest … Continue reading Be Careful What You Kiss For by Jane Lynne Daniels→
My review takes a quasi-newspaper article type format, with each section being worth a point. Who/Why Tensley Tanner-Starbrook is a (relatively) successful gal who works for her (domineering bitch of a) mom. Tensley (still) harbors a deep love for high school boyfriend, Max Hunter, and a violent hatred of the gal who (seemed) to have stolen him, Rhonda-the-Skank (it’s got a ring to it, right?). Tensley and Max split after Ten caught him locking lips … Continue reading Be Careful What You Kiss For by Jane Lynne Daniels→
Edmonia Lewis (c. 1844 – sometime after 1909) came from a penniless family, was orphaned at nine, was African American and Native American, and stood only four feet tall. This did not stop her from achieving international fame as a sculptor. Lewis had an African-Haitian father and a mother who was African American and Mississauga (a branch of the Chippewa people). Her mother was a weaver. She spent her early life in New York State. … Continue reading Kickass Women in History: Edmonia Lewis→
When Sarah mentioned k-dramas and the guest squee on Healer, my heart seized up for a brief moment. Ya’ll, there was a period of time where I lived for k-dramas, and just Asian dramas in general. This was pre-Netflix boom, so binge watching them was hard, though there were a few helpful sites for those wanting to watch and who didn’t speak the language. Some series I loved so much that I actually bought them. … Continue reading So You Wanna Watch Some K-Dramas?→
This review contains spoilers. Some I have tried to hide, and others will be revealed. You have been warned. I haven’t read the previous books in this trilogy (this being the third of the Private Justice series), but I have read books by the author before. I really enjoyed the author’s Heroes of Quantico trilogy, to which there was a nice reference to the RITA-Winning Award third book of that trilogy: In Harm’s Way. I don’t … Continue reading Deceived by Irene Hannon→
