Once again, I have to give Sassymonkey credit for recommending a GREAT book. Sisters Red was AWESOME! Retelling a fairy tale is tough but Jackson Pearce did a beautiful job with Rosie, Scarlett, their woodsman and their wolves. Brilliant work. Brilliant storytelling. I’ve always been a fan of Little Red Riding Hood – but forget that, just tell your kids the story of Rosie & Scarlett instead.
I finally finished a book – yay me! It wasn’t the book, Wild Ride, that was the problem – it was me and my schedule. When I’m crazy busy, I don’t read. I’m too busy or too tired to read. I just want to do mindless things like playing some dumb puzzle game on my iPad… or sleep. Sleep is good. Really good. I need to do more sleeping. And more reading. Anyway, Wild Ride.
Jennifer Crusie and her sometimes partner in crime Bob Mayor – fun! Maybe not quite as fun as Agnes and the Hitman, but close. Very close. I particularly loved the ending (which will shock sassymonkey!) Sometimes a demon just needs a little compassion and humanity tossed at him/her… you still can’t trust those demons but you can work with them.
Also… this one made me want to go to an amusement park, and that’s pure crazyness because I really hate amusement parks.
By the way, Crusie has a new solo book coming out soon… I just saw an email in my inbox offering me a review copy. Woohoo!
I finished Captivate a few days ago and forgot to blog it. I’d kind of like to forget the book in general because that is SO not the way the storyline was supposed to go! And the ending… cliffhanger hell. I suppose that’s the way to get teens to come back for more. But sheesh.
Pixies. Weres. Valkyrie. Elves.
Next book, we’ll throw some Gods into the mix and we’ll finish this thing, right? Right????
So Need is about Faeries? And Were? Who knew? For some reason I thought it was just a regular old teen trouble novel. Silly me.
It wasn’t quite as good as Holly Black’s faeries but it was darn good. The dialogue was good. I like to be able to laugh while renegade faeries are trying to steal the faerie princess away from the evil faerie king who doesn’t really want the princess – just her mother.
I think I might have just given away the whole book. Oops. Read it anyway, it’s fun. I stayed up long after midnight to finish it last night.
Or maybe I’m just a wee bit prejudice since Zara is a Charleston girl.
I have no idea how The Lost Sister came to be on our bookshelf. It looks too new to have been picked up at a used bookstore or used booksale but it also doesn’t look like a book I’d have just picked up off the shelf at full price. Could it have been a free review copy that I somehow forgot I had and never read? Oy, I hope not.
Modern witch tale set in New England. Mean girls – really mean girls. Really, really mean girls. Girls so mean that they tried to kill a girl during a hazing ritual (not that all of the girls participating in the hazing ritual knew that death was the real goal, not just pain and humiliation…) Astral projection, dream hopping, sisters who grew up thinking they were cousins, boyfriend/girlfriend problems… everything a good teen mean girl witch book should have.
It wasn’t bad. It wasn’t great. I enjoyed it and if there’s a sequel (which it feels like there should be) I’d probably read it eventually. I think I’d rather read about Cordelia and Maddy’s parents/grandparents than about Cordelia and Maddy again. Tess and Sophie seem really interesting. Abigail and Rebecca along with the evil Kiki. Feels like a much more interesting story, to me.
It’s been a Holly Black weekend. I like those kinds of weekends.
I will admit to being nervous about White Cat. It isn’t about faeries. Even though I’ve read Black’s short stories, which weren’t all about faeries, I was still a little concerned that I might not like her non-faerie work as much – or enough. Wrong.
The curse work was really interesting. And as usual, her characters are fascinating – even the most minor of them.
I received a review copy of Syren AGES ago and I put off reading it because I’d fallen behind on the Septimus Heap series and I thought I’d catch up and then read it. (TW and Prince J both read it ages ago and liked it a good bit…) I realized in January that I was never going to catch up with the series but I still wanted to read Syren so I read some reviews and blog posts for the books I’d missed and then started Syren. The first chapter or two left me confused because, duh I’d missed a lot, but by the fifth chapter I was hooked and happily reading. In fact I wanted to read it all of the way through without putting it down.
This really is a terrific middle grade series. In some ways, I like it better than Harry Potter (blasphemy, right?)
Cherie Priest did it again. Another excellent book! Boneshaker starts slowly and builds and builds and builds … Steampunk and Zombies. Where’s the sequel?
Cherie Priest just gets creepier and creepier – but that’s good. I’ve been trying to figure out how to convince RJ that she needs to start reading Cherie Priest – Dreadful Skin might just be the way to do it. Werewolves and a really cool Nun – could it get any better than that?
I don’t know how many times I can say it – Cherie Priest is a brilliant YA writer. Hell, she’s a brilliant writer PERIOD. Fathom was fascinating. The stone girl and the water girl. The water witch and a servant of the earth. The old pirate revisiting his old haunts – sailing a party vessel, retrieving his old treasure, wandering Ybor City and darn right grouchy about the Gasparilla festival – and who could blame him for that? The Iron Mountain. The bells. A wonderfully creepy story with amazingly written characters. Brilliant, really brilliant.
I can’t wait for Priest’s Steampunk… Clementine can’t get here fast enough for me.