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The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
I really enjoyed it. As always I love how she writes. I don’t read horror much and the tension really got to me. I loved the atmosphere. I liked the humour too.
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Song of the Beast by Carol Berg
Really enjoyed it.
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I really enjoyed it. As always I love how she writes. I don’t read horror much and the tension really got to me. I loved the atmosphere. I liked the humour too.
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Song of the Beast by Carol Berg
Really enjoyed it.
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Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich
Mar. 10th, 2020 05:46 pmI really enjoyed it! I’m kind of shocked about that, tbh. This is the most I've enjoyed a Stephanie Plum novel in ages. This is a really big turn around from yesterday, and maybe I'm so much more pleased with this book because of the comparison?
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I loved it and want to rec it to everyone. It’s an easy read, very engaging writing with lovely characters.
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Just a very lovely story.
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Just a very lovely story.
Knight of the Demon Queen
I liked it more than I was expecting.
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Dragonstar
I liked it. It was a much more hopeful throughout with an actually optimistic end, so yay.
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Overall, I liked how everything came together. I just wish I’d enjoyed the middle two books of the series more.
I liked it more than I was expecting.
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Dragonstar
I liked it. It was a much more hopeful throughout with an actually optimistic end, so yay.
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Overall, I liked how everything came together. I just wish I’d enjoyed the middle two books of the series more.
Winterlands series by Barbara Hambly
Apr. 17th, 2019 05:41 pmDragonsbane
I really enjoyed it. It felt very old-fashioned classic fantasy. I liked the characters and the world-building.
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But yeah overall – good book.
Dragonshadow
Hmm. Not sure how I feel about this one. I think on the whole I liked it less. The downer of an ending was rather a bummer.
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So I ended this book less enthusiastic to finish this series and the summary of the next doesn't get me any more so but at the same time I don't want to leave the characters at this point in the story. I requested the next two (final two?) books and hopefully things get more hopeful for the characters.
I really enjoyed it. It felt very old-fashioned classic fantasy. I liked the characters and the world-building.
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But yeah overall – good book.
Dragonshadow
Hmm. Not sure how I feel about this one. I think on the whole I liked it less. The downer of an ending was rather a bummer.
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So I ended this book less enthusiastic to finish this series and the summary of the next doesn't get me any more so but at the same time I don't want to leave the characters at this point in the story. I requested the next two (final two?) books and hopefully things get more hopeful for the characters.
Short Story Thoughts
Feb. 17th, 2019 10:36 amGodmother by T. Kingfisher
Interesting with a neat idea. I want to learn more about the princess who was forgotten and abandoned and created a bone dog and survived by her own strength which sounds so interesting. Does she become a villain? Plus too the godmothers who have to make choices about whom to help/save and this specific one haunted by making perhaps the wrong choice.
Wooden Feathers by Ursula Vernon
Oh, wow. I loved this. Great twist to the Pinocchio story. The whole concept of the wood carvings sometimes coming to life is great. I liked Sarah and her compassion and her determination. Jep and his story was so sad and like Sarah made me emotional, I even got teary-eyed several times. The marionette was great and how instinctually terrifying Sarah found it was conveyed really well and made the marionette creepier than it might have been. I liked the softness give to him during that last scene, the bit of humanity. My shipper brain kind of wants Sarah to meet up with the marionette and his horse at some later date (perhaps he looks for her) and them falling in love. I like to think that Jep ends up taking Sarah as his apprentice but honestly I think it's just as likely that Sarah stops by his place the next day to find him dead. No, I prefer the first version. I'd definitely read a sequel to this.
Sun Moon Dust by Ursula Vernon
Cute. I like Allpa's voice and how he really just wants to be a farmer, and how polite he was. I like that it ended Allpa/Moon because I wasn't expecting it.
Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer
Super cute. I love these types of stories. The search engine AI gaining sentience and trying to figure out their purpose and their love of cute cat pictures was adorable. I liked how she tried to help people, her bafflement with humans and the slightly alien tinge to her thoughts. And I don't know why but I just automatically identified the AI as female when there was no evidence for it.
Interesting with a neat idea. I want to learn more about the princess who was forgotten and abandoned and created a bone dog and survived by her own strength which sounds so interesting. Does she become a villain? Plus too the godmothers who have to make choices about whom to help/save and this specific one haunted by making perhaps the wrong choice.
Wooden Feathers by Ursula Vernon
Oh, wow. I loved this. Great twist to the Pinocchio story. The whole concept of the wood carvings sometimes coming to life is great. I liked Sarah and her compassion and her determination. Jep and his story was so sad and like Sarah made me emotional, I even got teary-eyed several times. The marionette was great and how instinctually terrifying Sarah found it was conveyed really well and made the marionette creepier than it might have been. I liked the softness give to him during that last scene, the bit of humanity. My shipper brain kind of wants Sarah to meet up with the marionette and his horse at some later date (perhaps he looks for her) and them falling in love. I like to think that Jep ends up taking Sarah as his apprentice but honestly I think it's just as likely that Sarah stops by his place the next day to find him dead. No, I prefer the first version. I'd definitely read a sequel to this.
Sun Moon Dust by Ursula Vernon
Cute. I like Allpa's voice and how he really just wants to be a farmer, and how polite he was. I like that it ended Allpa/Moon because I wasn't expecting it.
Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer
Super cute. I love these types of stories. The search engine AI gaining sentience and trying to figure out their purpose and their love of cute cat pictures was adorable. I liked how she tried to help people, her bafflement with humans and the slightly alien tinge to her thoughts. And I don't know why but I just automatically identified the AI as female when there was no evidence for it.
Short Story Thoughts
Feb. 2nd, 2019 02:32 pmStill cleaning up files and folders and came across links to some short stories.
The Litany of Earth by Ruthanna Emrys
I liked it. I wonder if I would have enjoyed Winter Tide more if I’d read this first? Based on what little we hear about this story in the books I was expecting a little bit more from the cult that she stopped than suicide. I don’t know, I was expecting something more malevolent with potential for a bigger death toll? It was nice to see Aphra’s beginnings with Charlie and Spector. I particularly liked that moment when Spector gave Aphra her mother’s file and confessed nothing could make him work with the new German government. I wish we’d seen more of the Koto’s and Aphra’s life with them.
The Sea Witch Sets The Record Straight by T. Kingfisher
Nice little Ursula subversion. I thought she made some pretty good points. Could have done without her basically calling Ariel stupid.
Toad Words by T. Kingfisher
Lovely. I don’t know the fairy tale this is from but I love this. I love her caring about the fate of her frogs, and her deciding to repopulate the world with frogs and toads, doing what she can even if she can’t solve the problem. I like her sister supporting her with her own spoken gems.
Bluebeard’s Wife by T. Kingfisher
I liked it. I love that Althea's desire to give him the privacy that she had never known and desired so strongly that saved her life and probably others as well. We're given no hint that he killed anyone after their marriage. Which is interesting in itself. I also rather love that he was a good husband and friend to her, and her wrestling with the dichotomy of him being "a very evil man but not a bad one" that she genuinely missed. I like that he tried to protect her before his death.
Never by T. Kingfisher
Nice creepy little Peter Pan subversion. I love the Indian's calling Peter "Young Wendigo" and everything that implies. I like to think Myrtle finds an escape though mostly likely she meets her brother Albert again when she dies. Oh, also crazy Benji is clearly not that crazy and I totally believe that Peter turns into a giant crocodile. I love the visual of the fairies cleaning it's teeth after he ate someone.
Elegant and Fine by T. Kingfisher
I'm pretty sure I've read this before or maybe it was just something similar. I think a lot of people contemplate how upsetting/damaging it could have been for the Pevensie's to suddenly be back on Earth as children again. I like the bit about Susan's dwarf lover and her forgetting his name. I liked the moment of comfort her and Edmund shared. I loved the final line - "Someone who loved her, as she had loved someone once, long ago, in a childhood dream without a name."
The Wolf and the Woodsman by T. Kingfisher
I loved it. I love the writing in this one and want more like it. Very fun, lots of clever little turns of phrase and interesting asides. "She brutalized flour and butter, she visited wartime atrocities to milk and yeast. She committed acts of crumpet." Ha. Turtle was great. I love that the grandmother was friends with wolves. The woodsman being bad is a common twist by I like how it played out here and the realistic horror of him.
The Dryad’s Shoe by T. Kingfisher
Great Cinderella remake. I love how sensible Hannah was and that she was only interested in her garden. I love that she inadvertently ended up being the fairy godmother to servant Kara, giving her the happy ending with the prince. And that the prince knew Kara by her voice and what they had talked about and not based on the shoe. The titmouse was great. I liked how Hannah's relationship with her stepmother and sisters was shown. Anabel was sweet and I loved the small point about her love of fashion, and Hannah bringing her the third dress, and Anabel immediately starting to dissect how it was made. I like the idea of the two of them living together and starting their own businesses. I loved that little bit with the titmouse being resignedly aghast that Hannah has been "embezzling honey" from her father, ha.
The Litany of Earth by Ruthanna Emrys
I liked it. I wonder if I would have enjoyed Winter Tide more if I’d read this first? Based on what little we hear about this story in the books I was expecting a little bit more from the cult that she stopped than suicide. I don’t know, I was expecting something more malevolent with potential for a bigger death toll? It was nice to see Aphra’s beginnings with Charlie and Spector. I particularly liked that moment when Spector gave Aphra her mother’s file and confessed nothing could make him work with the new German government. I wish we’d seen more of the Koto’s and Aphra’s life with them.
The Sea Witch Sets The Record Straight by T. Kingfisher
Nice little Ursula subversion. I thought she made some pretty good points. Could have done without her basically calling Ariel stupid.
Toad Words by T. Kingfisher
Lovely. I don’t know the fairy tale this is from but I love this. I love her caring about the fate of her frogs, and her deciding to repopulate the world with frogs and toads, doing what she can even if she can’t solve the problem. I like her sister supporting her with her own spoken gems.
Bluebeard’s Wife by T. Kingfisher
I liked it. I love that Althea's desire to give him the privacy that she had never known and desired so strongly that saved her life and probably others as well. We're given no hint that he killed anyone after their marriage. Which is interesting in itself. I also rather love that he was a good husband and friend to her, and her wrestling with the dichotomy of him being "a very evil man but not a bad one" that she genuinely missed. I like that he tried to protect her before his death.
Never by T. Kingfisher
Nice creepy little Peter Pan subversion. I love the Indian's calling Peter "Young Wendigo" and everything that implies. I like to think Myrtle finds an escape though mostly likely she meets her brother Albert again when she dies. Oh, also crazy Benji is clearly not that crazy and I totally believe that Peter turns into a giant crocodile. I love the visual of the fairies cleaning it's teeth after he ate someone.
Elegant and Fine by T. Kingfisher
I'm pretty sure I've read this before or maybe it was just something similar. I think a lot of people contemplate how upsetting/damaging it could have been for the Pevensie's to suddenly be back on Earth as children again. I like the bit about Susan's dwarf lover and her forgetting his name. I liked the moment of comfort her and Edmund shared. I loved the final line - "Someone who loved her, as she had loved someone once, long ago, in a childhood dream without a name."
The Wolf and the Woodsman by T. Kingfisher
I loved it. I love the writing in this one and want more like it. Very fun, lots of clever little turns of phrase and interesting asides. "She brutalized flour and butter, she visited wartime atrocities to milk and yeast. She committed acts of crumpet." Ha. Turtle was great. I love that the grandmother was friends with wolves. The woodsman being bad is a common twist by I like how it played out here and the realistic horror of him.
The Dryad’s Shoe by T. Kingfisher
Great Cinderella remake. I love how sensible Hannah was and that she was only interested in her garden. I love that she inadvertently ended up being the fairy godmother to servant Kara, giving her the happy ending with the prince. And that the prince knew Kara by her voice and what they had talked about and not based on the shoe. The titmouse was great. I liked how Hannah's relationship with her stepmother and sisters was shown. Anabel was sweet and I loved the small point about her love of fashion, and Hannah bringing her the third dress, and Anabel immediately starting to dissect how it was made. I like the idea of the two of them living together and starting their own businesses. I loved that little bit with the titmouse being resignedly aghast that Hannah has been "embezzling honey" from her father, ha.
Forged in Blood by Lindsay Buroker
Nov. 22nd, 2018 07:11 pmForged in Blood, Part 1
Tense!
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Forged in Blood, Part 2
This was a good end to the series.
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Tense!
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Forged in Blood, Part 2
This was a good end to the series.
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Hardcore Twenty-Four by Janet Evanovich
Eh. It was okay.
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Decrypted by Lindsay Buroker
I enjoyed it.
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Eh. It was okay.
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Decrypted by Lindsay Buroker
I enjoyed it.
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Passage by Lois McMaster Bujold
I liked it.
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Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold
This book and I got off to the wrong start pretty much immediately but overall was a good conclusion to the series.
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I liked it.
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Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold
This book and I got off to the wrong start pretty much immediately but overall was a good conclusion to the series.
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