Sci Fi and Fantasy

The Goddess Chronicle

1 Comment / 2013, Books in Bed, Favorites, Feminism, Sci Fi and Fantasy, Women /

I ran to the library one morning, by myself, to pick up some holds and pluck some books off of the shelf for TW because she was OUT of BOOKS. The Goddess Chronicle was one of those books. I really thought she’d probably already read it. But she hadn’t — thank goodness.

It was a good pick because not only is it a great feminist creation story, we discovered it’s part of a series so now we have another handful of books to look forward to reading.

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The Raven Girl

2013, Books in Bed, Fiction, Sci Fi and Fantasy /

The Raven Girl is a fairy tale about a postman who falls in love with a raven — they have a raven girl baby (chick?) who has to find her way in the world when she never feels quite right. She looks like a human but she feels like a raven.

Cute story. Good mix of fantasy and scifi. Nice illustrations.

I’m actually more interested in it now that I know it was written to be a ballet. Now that’s interesting. I’m betting it’s a great ballet. Not that it wasn’t a good book. It was. I liked it, though the end felt a little rushed.

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Deadline

2013, Books in Bed, Favorites, Sci Fi and Fantasy /

It took me pretty much a full month to read Deadline and JMP is pretty much the only thing that could have caused that to happen because I love this series. Love, love, love.

I was afraid I wasn’t going to love this one, after Georgia’s death … even though I knew what was going to happen. Not because I saw a spoiler I just KNEW it.

And then last night, when I finished Deadline at 11:45pm I really wanted nothing more than to stay up all night and read the next (last! wah!) book in the trilogy.

The ending was exactly where the ending needed to be to entice you into the third book.

Ohhh boy. It’s something else when the zombies aren’t really the baddest of the bad guys…

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Written in Red

2013, Books in Bed, Favorites, Sci Fi and Fantasy /

Thatwoman is a pain in the ass.

She goes on and on about how she likes a book but when I pick it up to read it she says “Oh, that was really good but I don’t know why you’re reading it.” Like I’m deficient in some way? Like I NEVER like the books or kind of books she likes? Like… I don’t even know. It’s like the GD Kite Runner all the damn time around here, (long story, don’t ask.)

So yea, I picked up Written in Red and see above… and then I pretty much read it non-stop until I was finished. Which is saying something since after TW went all Kite Runner on me (see above) I looked at some really bad reviews of this book and I was nervous.

Damn TW and damn the people and their DNF mean reviews.

Because I really enjoyed Written in Red. I liked The Others. And, I liked the humans, too. This was not the typical werewolf/vampire book. Not typical at all. There were PONIES. Very powerful ponies. I liked them. I liked everything about the book. Even the annoying Simon.

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The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

2013, Books in Bed, Queer, Sci Fi and Fantasy, Women /

Here’s another book that started a little slow for me — slow enough that I wondered why I take “what to read next” advice from TW so often. But, just as I was thinking I’d put down The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells and start something else, I realized it was written by the author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli so I stuck it out.

I’m glad I did. Because once Greta found herself in her second life/time, I was hooked and pretty much wanted to just read straight through (with brief stops for Candy Crush, of course.)

Interesting ending. I didn’t think that’s where the “original” Greta would stay, though it was the time/life that made the most sense for her (and probably the other Gretas, as well).

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Every Day

3 Comments / 2013, Audiobooks, Books in Bed, Cybil Challenge, Sci Fi and Fantasy, Young Adult /

Every Day is the YA trouble book of all time — there will never be a YA trouble book that has more trouble than this one. It’s impossible.

Because A wakes up in the body of a different 16 year old every single day. This means A deals with every single YA trouble under the sun. It gets particularly problematic when A wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin’s girlfriend and tries to figure out how he/she can have a relationship with Rhiannon (and Rhiannon tries to figure out how she can dump Justin and have a relationship with A.)

Oy.

It was interesting — mostly because we couldn’t figure out how this was going to end. Since A obviously couldn’t stay in someone else’s body. It did all wrap up with a neat, but sad, little ending. An ending I didn’t particularly like but an ending that made sense. As much sense as a book about someone who has no body of his/her own and moves around to a new body every day for his/her whole life can make.

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Some Kind of Fairy Tale

2013, Books in Bed, Sci Fi and Fantasy /

I wasn’t sure I was going to like Some Kind of Fairy Tale, even though TW said I would like it. I find myself bored, some times, by fairy stories, so when this one started off a little slowly I was afraid I wasn’t going to enjoy it much (think back to that one I read a couple of months ago, set in Austin? Yea, like that.) But nope, about 50 pages in, I was hooked and didn’t really want to put it down.

I particularly liked the introduction of Mrs. Larwood, toward the end. And, the ending was just the right ending, too.

If some guy comes asking for some cherry blossoms from your tree — say no.

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Star Cursed

1 Comment / 2013, Books in Bed, Favorites, Sci Fi and Fantasy, Young Adult /

I’ve been waiting for this sequel to Born Wicked since … forever. At first, I wasn’t sure I was going to like Star Cursed. I started feeling like it was going to be another second book in the series let down. Turns out, it wasn’t cursed that way at all.

Once Cate’s sisters made it to New London, the book really picked up. I think Tess helps a lot. Maura, on the otherhand, oh boy. Maura.

I liked the ending. Good stopping place. Very good stopping place. Now we need book three because I really want to know what happens next. Poor Finn. Poor Cate. Poor Tess. Poor everyone, pretty much. Except Maura. With a sister like that, who needs The Brotherhood? Sheesh.

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Between the Lines

3 Comments / 2013, Books in Bed, Don't Read This, Sci Fi and Fantasy, Young Adult /

I hate to say it, because I normally enjoy Jodi Picoult’s books but… Between the Lines is one you can probably skip.

I liked the idea of Picoult writing a YA book with her teen daughter but it didn’t quite live up to my expectations. It took me three days to read the first three chapters. TW said it gets better… and it did. But not a lot better.

It’s not truly horrid but it’s just not great, either.

I really, really disliked the ending. Maybe it works for kids but for me, a mom, it did not work AT ALL. Not even a little bit.

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