I've read maybe four fics in the Yuletide archive so far that weren't gifted to me -- my own gifts were so amazing and plentiful (THANKS FOR A PERFECT FIC,
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My day started out with a cat throwing up in my bedroom at 4 AM (three hours after I went to bed), after which I fled the house to catch a 7:30 AM bus to New York, which promptly broke down half an hour out. It's fine though! We've got another bus and also I can't really be annoyed at anything because a.) once I finally get to New York I have a ( Read more... )

For the 17th, for the December meme (so behind!)
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I'm currently in that state of post-new-Frances-Hardinge depression when I have to face the glum fact that it will likely be YEARS before I see another new Frances Hardinge novel.

Cuckoo Song, though! So good! Has anyone else read it yet? I want to flail my hands around and say all the things I loved about it, but most of them are somewhat ( Read more... )

It's always really hard to review Frances Hardinge books because there are always twenty things going on in them at once and all of them are REALLY GOOD. But here I am, attempting to give A Face Like Glass a go anyway ( Read more... )

YULETIDE YULETIDE YULETIDE

. . . uh, and Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! Have fun with your holiday, I'm going to be over here with my giant pile of glorious Yuletide to wade through. *____*

I got two stories this year and they are both PERFECTION.

The Marriage Masquerade, The Talisman Ring

Ludovic waved a hand. “I want nothing-the ( Read more... )

Okay, so I just read The Lost Conspiracy by Frances Hardinge (published in the UK as Gullstruck Island), and - okay, this woman has published four books, and every single one I have loved to pieces, and this one isn't my favorite exactly, but I think it is legitimately her best.

It's hard to describe the actual plot of this book, because the ( Read more... )

Frances Hardinge's Fly-by-Night was one of my absolute favorite books that I read last year. Since I just reread it, it is also one of my absolute favorite books that I read this year, and so is the sequel, Fly Trap.

Overall, Fly Trap is probably not quite as good a book as Fly-by-Night. Fly Trap brings our heroine Mosca Mye to the locked city ( Read more... )

shati and I sometimes play a game in bookstores when we look at the spines of YA books and attempt to guess genre/plot from the font of the title. We have a reasonable percentage of accuracy. However, we might have been thrown by the cover of Frances Hardinge's Well WitchedIf you look at this cover, you will probably think to yourself: oh, I know what ( Read more... )

A few months ago villanny emailed me to flail about Francis Hardinge's Fly By Night. And once again Nny earns her place in the annals of the wise, because, having now finally read Fly By Night, I can safely say THIS BOOK IS AMAZING. In my head it goes into the same category of "deceptively complex books about revolution" as the Dalemark Quartet and the ( Read more... )