When I pick up a book set in Victorian England and purporting to have fairies in it I come to it with a few expectations regarding the social class of the people involved, the nature of the fairies, and the setting of the story involved. I have to report that With Fate Conspire managed to overturn each and every one of those expectations and I ( Read more... )

As is my habit, when I find someone writing stuff I find intriguing I want more of it (hence my patience in waiting for Nick Harkaway's next book). Since the alternate history presented in Cold magic was really interesting with all kinds of far reaching effects, I went and picked up Cold Fire.

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On certain rare occasions I feel the need to read a horror novel. I'm not entirely sure where that comes from, but I do enjoy old creepy horror movies a whole lot. However, when one shifts from “something went bump in the night and all the cats are hiding under the covers with me so WHAT WAS THAT?” to “um EWWWW” I find my slightly snobbish streak ( Read more... )

I've been having good luck with Gail Carriger's books since I started reading them. Naturally, eager to see more of a good thing, I obtained a copy of Heartless.

( A lesson on the where the safest place in the world is. )

I picked Phoenix Rising
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Well, I found this particular book to be something of an ordeal. This was partially due to my non-reading workload (which is currently threatening to eat me *goes to beat it with a cricket bat* *returns*) and that the reason I rarely buy full sized hardbound anything is that lugging it around is a pain in the petunia. There were other things as ( Read more... )

The concept of a house that eats people has always been an intriguing on to me as it shows up extremely often in horror films. That and I have a soft spot for what appears to be a variety of time and relative dimensions in space device. It might be a type 20 as opposed to the more frequently seen type 40.

So, The World House's
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After a largely disappointing middle section, I move on to the next installment in the Year of Rogue Dragons trilogy. Oh please let this be more like the first book...

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( I hope that someone brought the warm fuzzy boots. )

Yay, I have finished the second book. It feels rather uncannily like the end of an episode of Scooby Doo.

( They finally got the band back together. )

This will be a pretty short section. Actually, at 14 chapters plus prologue and epilogue, it's a really short book. In any case, apparently the plot did have a fire lit under its tail because it did gain some momentum through this section. Spoilers away!

( Move plot! MOVE I SAY! )