***Please be aware that while refraining from spoiling the specific novella I’m reviewing at the time, there may be spoilers from any prior novellas.*** I view these stories as five separate but related tales—like a series—b/c that’s how I originally read them. I’ll include links at the bottom of the post to the individual reviews […]
Where to begin . . . A Court of Thorns and Roses was and wasn’t exactly what I was expecting. I knew it was going to be a sort of Beauty and the Beast meets Tamlin mashup . . . but I didn’t really think about what that might mean. When I think of retellings, […]
NO SPOILERS. Heir of Fire begins with Celaena lazing about on a rooftop in Wendlyn’s capital city, drinking cheap wine (that she stole) from a jug, and feeling sorry for herself. Actually, she wasn’t drinking it. She was looking for it, and when she found it, it was empty (having already been drunk). Shortly thereafter, she gets mistaken for […]
Ten(ish) years ago, before the explosion of hair removal services, I used to go to this tiny, South Korean lady who rented a space in a nearby salon. The moment she got me in her room, she’d keep up a constant stream of very bad English. The only thing she said that I could understand was, “Oh […]