The Hour of Dust and Ashes deserves the award “Most Near-Death Experiences a Plot Puts its Protagonist Through”. I count…or rather, I will leave that number for your discovery (but it is fairly large and the ways to die are, as well, fairly colorful). What’s not to like about further developments in this world? […]
Copperhead complements and even exceeds the boldness of its prequel. Ironskin (where do these suggestive names come from?) took Jane Eyre as the model for its romance and family elements and then threw over that a thick layer of magic, faerie, and alternate timeline intrigue. This first time Jane had to come to […]
Kitty Takes a Holiday? Could have fooled me. The joke may be that even out in the woods plot will find her but what I mean just as much is that this reads like any other book in the series. One must admire the consistency, how no matter the location or chronology a […]
The Sweet Scent of Blood puzzled me greatly whilst I was in the throes of passion with it. You’re just going to have to trust me when I say that looking back I am amazed at how few set-pieces there were and thus how well they were employed i.e. in terrific detail, with strong […]