February Media Report: Books

[rachelmanija]

Mely jumped off the bridge, so I will too. Since I despair of ever having time to write up everything individually, I have given brief reviews to the whole month below.

If anything's missing an author, it is because I am too lazy to look them up. If there's no comment, I already reviewed it here.

Comments

[gwyneira]

I was so disappointed by the McKinley. I tried to talk myself into liking it, but I just couldn't, really. Nothing happened in it.

I think The Keys to the Golden Firebird might be my favorite Maureen Johnson, after The Bermudez Triangle.

[oyceter]

I have had this for months and still not gotten around to reading it, despite the multiple positive reviews. Maybe once I have free time...

[gwyneira]

I held off on it for a while, because it was the last of hers I hadn't read and I hate being out of authors I like. (I managed to string Sarah Dessen out for more than a year, through iron self-control.)

Also, I had a weird idea that it was fantasy (because of the title), and it's not, which required some readjusting of expectations. :)

[rilina]

There's a new one coming out! I have an ARC which I haven't gotten to read yet!

[gwyneira]

ARC envy!

I'm trying to resist ordering it in hardcover (for budgetary reasons), but I fear my willpower won't hold out. (And there's a new Dessen at practically the same time, so I might as well get them both together....)

[rachelmanija]

I think if McKinley hadn't written it, it never would have been published.

[green_knight]

f McKinley hadn't written it, it never would have been published

Barring ventures into L-space, isn't that true for most novels? Publishing unwritten novels is hard work...

[chickflick1979]

I concur. I liked ...Firebird too, but Triangle was my favorite of hers.