So here’s the deal: InCryptid has a LOT of backstory via a multitude of (FREE) extras that are available on McGuire’s website. These extras chronicle the Healy and Price family after they went rogue and left the Covenant of St. George. The majority are about Jonathan Healy, the son of Enid and Alexander Healy, the […]
Four books in and I’m still loving McGuire’s InCryptid series, though it must be said that I’m not going to terribly miss Alex’s POV. He’s just not as fun as Verity. *shrugs awkwardly* POCKET APOCALYPSE sends us to Australia to investigate an outbreak of lycanthropy. In most circumstances I’d rejoice at this development, but not […]
Last week’s literary signpost bookfessional reminded me of my favorite question on the template questionnaire from the “welcome” thread in my buddy reading group on Goodreads: magical items found in books that I WANT. You: What are you on about? Me: You know, the group I co-moderate on Goodreads that facilitates reading books with online […]
For all of you out there screaming, WE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS! I got your diverse graphic novel right here. Meet Kamala Khan: But I’m getting ahead of myself. When Ms. Marvel begins, Kamala is the teenage Muslim version of Toula in MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING. She’s lamenting the uncoolness of her heritage and daydreaming […]
Literary Signposts, we’ve all seen them, right? I don’t know about you guys, but I love them. They’re so whimsical and bookishly indulgent . . . *sighs happily* I’d never given them much thought though—they’re all variations of: Hogwarts, Neverland, Narnia, the Shire, etc. And I was fine with that. B/c it was the idea […]
I . . . am a fickle broad. I spent the majority of the last two days bitching and moaning about this book. I have the screenshots to prove it: I’m not going to sugarcoat it, I hated THE TURN right up until the very end. Literally. The very end. The last four pages are […]
In the wake of my recent TWILIGHT reread, I decided it was time to give up the ghost on THE CHEMIST, which made me take a closer look at several others I’d been hanging to . . . and here we are: my second DNF Roundup. I nearly made it to the halfway point before […]
Bookfessional: Cloudy Days and Comfort Reads We’re not getting bombarded with snow down here in Tennessee like those of you further north, but the last several days have been pretty grim, and the nasty overcast skies have made me want to curl up with a bowl of tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich and […]
Bookfessional: Pre-Order S W A G Show me an avid reader that doesn’t love book swag, and I’ll call you a liar. Or just no fun. Your pick. Even better than book swag, is FREE book swag, am I right? A couple years ago (ish), I started seeing pre-order promotions for high profile books popping […]
Anytime a book is surrounded in as much hype as CARAVAL, I try to go into reading it with lowered expectations. BUT. Said hype seldom stops me from actually reading it. Not b/c I’m a lemming, but b/c curiosity. *shakes fist at curiosity gods* That being said, beyond the pretty, pretty cover and the quote, […]
Last year I read CITY OF THE LOST more out of duty than expectation of loving it. Armstrong writes several of my favorite urban fantasy series and has been an auto-buy author for over a decade, but I had limited success with her last mystery series (NADIA STAFFORD), so I was prepared to feel pretty […]