I was pleasantly surprised by Lady Jayne Disappears. It was a pretty decent mystery that kept me trying to sort out the mystery right up until the end. The love story part was pretty typical of books of this nature. All in all, a good way to end the reverse readathon and it was easy to finish the next day.
Lady Jayne Disappears Read More »
Holy heckfire was The Changeling a dark, dark, dark book or what? I mean seriously.
It was also really, really good. And, I wish I was more up on my horror genre because I’m pretty sure there were a lot of nods to horror classics that I missed. The ones I caught… a-freaking-mazing. Also, Sendak IS creepy.
You should read this, but be ready. It’s dark, dark, DARK.
I’m confused about how The Paper Magician ended up in my library bag. I thought at first that it had been on my TBR list for awhile and I’d reserved it when I did a bunch of reserves a few weeks ago, but that’s not it. Then I thought it was an Amazon best seller from last year and it hit my holds when I went through another mad round of reserves, but no. So I must have picked it up from the new arrivals shelf at the library but why would it be on the new arrivals shelf when it’s several years old?
SO WEIRD. Whatever. I really, really enjoyed it and hope to goodness the library has the other books in the series. I need to know what happens to Ceony next.
Updated: hmmm, turns out the series has been optioned by Disney so that might be how the book wound up in my bag… I may have seen this info on a blog or Facebook after all. Huh. This book would make an excellent Disney movie.
The Paper Magician Read More »
I picked up one of the Pyper Rayne books from the new arrivals shelf because it had a cute cover and an amusing title and I was hoping it was a campy paranormal book like some other series I’ve enjoyed. But, since it wasn’t the fist book in the series, I ended up returning it and just reserving the first two, instead.
The first one… was a little slow and not as campy as I’d like. I went ahead and read the second one, in hopes of finding a character (besides Ida May) but nope. I’m bored now, moving on.
Two Pyper Rayne Books Read More »
Apparently Two Days Gone is part of a series, the Ryan DeMarco Mysteries. Who knew? I have no idea how it appeared on our library cart. I thought TW picked it up. I also thought she had already read it and left it on the shelf for me to read because it was good.
Turns out, she hadn’t read it yet but it was good.
Dark. Very, very, very dark. Also, heart-freaking-breaking. One of those… what choice would you make if forced to make a horrific and impossible choice. Good lord.
I do kind of want to go back and read some of the other books, to see how DeMarco got to the point he’s at now. I mean, they gave enough backstory to get the gist but I might have to go back and read it for myself. Hold the phone, it IS part of a series but this is the first one? Now I’m frustrated. What do you mean this is the first one? You’ve given us a really dark and flawed character with an #ASSTON of backstory and we don’t get to actually live any of that backstory with him? Now I’m not so sure I want to read another… maybe. Hell.
It’s been awhile since I read a cozy so I really enjoyed The Darkness Knows. 1930s radio, in Chicago — yep, I enjoyed that. I’m not so sure how I feel about either main character and I’m really not sure how I felt about how quickly their relationship progressed. Four days? Really? Hmmmm. I’ll probably read the next one and see how I feel about it after that.
The Darkness Knows Read More »
We needed an audio book and none of our audio holds were in so I turned to Hooplah… but the only thing I could find quickly was The Nightingale Before Christmas… so I downloaded it. I figured since I liked that flamingo one all those years ago, (And maybe we’ve also ready another one?), and it was Christmas, then this would be a fine choice.
And it was.
Meg amuses me and so do the rest of the residents of Caerphilly.
The Nightingale Before Christmas Read More »
I finally finished No Wind of Blame, which I started on Kindle during the October #readathon. I love Georgette Heyer and this was a fun read, though I really feel like I might have read it before. It all felt familiar to me.
The problem with Joe Ledger books is that it takes me almost 100 pages to become invested in the story. Before then, I read an “event” and put the book down wondering why I keep reading them. Then I hit page 100 and off I go, not wanting to put the book down at all.
King of Plagues – that’s the stuff of nightmares. Really. All of the horrible things. [shudder] Also, I think Ledger is losing brain cells. He should have figured out the whole Circe thing on his own. [eyeroll]
Lowcountry Bombshell was amusing. Very amusing. It made me want to read Marilyn Monroe biographies and watch Marilyn Monroe movies.
And now that I’m caught up on the Liz Talbot series, I hope another one comes out soon. Totally fun.
Lowcountry Bombshell Read More »