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I know the Southern Vampire Mysteries series aren't great literature and Charlaine Harris isn't going to be winning a Booker Prize any time soon, the series is a light, easy and entertaining read. Ms Harris has built an intriguing world and has been the Maker to a set of characters that I've found myself heavily invested in, which is rare for me ( Read more... )

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I had to read Dora: A Headcase by Lydia Yuknavtich for school. It was incredibly painful. It is supposedly a retelling of Freud's case of his patient Dora, though I have never read that and can't comment on the comparison. What I can comment on is that's all fucking updated and everything, for, like young adults? And if there ever was a hipster ( Read more... )

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Since I'm a glutton for punishment, I actually read the vapid sequel to the equally vapid 'Girl in a Steel Corset'. The sequel is titled 'Girl in the Clockwork Collar' and the biggest hint that this was going to be bad was the model on the cover was East Asian. The reason I felt my stomach sink was because this is a steampunk novel and East Asians ( Read more... )

The novel I've chosen to review is "Wicked as they Come" by Delilah S. Dawson. I have a very large soft spot for steampunk and when I found this, I knew better based on the tag line: "Step right up! Test your mettle- and your heart ( Read more... )

This is really long, but there was just so much WTF that I couldn't edit it down further without feeling that I was denying people lulz.


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So, I read this book:


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