Contrary to my assumption, HUNTER by Mercedes Lackey was not a YA fantasy. If I’d bothered to read the blurb, I would’ve known that, but what can I say? Old habits die hard. What it is is a paranormal/mythological/post-apocalyptic/dystopian mashup. Sounds cool, right? And a lot of readers, particularly those still in their teens, will […]
Before I read Midnight Thief, I took the advice of various and sundry others, and read the prequel, Poison Dance, and I really liked it. Having since read the book, I’m going to hazard a guess that the point of the prequel was to, if not make a sympathetic character out of Midnight Thief‘s villain, then to […]
I had serious misgivings about reading The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken. I started reading Brightly Woven (Bracken’s YA Fantasy stand-alone) a few years ago, and I just wasn’t feeling it. I didn’t mark it as DNF b/c I wasn’t totally writing it off. I was just putting it aside for later. WAY later. So […]