12.07.2013
First, this is the sequel to ‘The Foxhole Court’ and there is no point in you reading it without reading that, which is *free*, first.

I do feel The Raven King is weaker, overall, than The Foxhole Court, the introductory chapter with all the backstory infodump seriously worried me (it’s cool to write a sequel, it helps nobody to give a ( Read more... )

“The Foxhole Court” by Nora Sakavic

22.02.2012

I'm writing this review in hope that it will easy my mind because it's been 2 5 days since I finished this novel and I can't stop thinking about it. This is hardly that unusual when I read the first part of a trilogy whose two other parts remain unpublished.

But back to Foxhole Court. It is ( Read more... )

04.11.11

This guy dating a pair twins lists all their differences and how perfectly civilized and normal it is to date two people at once, even if they look a lot alike because they are very different. Meaning, there was NO plot.

2011, 2011: short-story in english, book-2011, #cuento/short-story, *author: male, @read in english, +gay, #queer ( Read more... )

31.07.11

14.000 words. Gerald's childhood. Very interesting portrayal of the mechanics of oppresion.

2011, 2011: short-story in english, book-2011, *author: female, @read in english, #cuento/short-story, +supernatural, author: Sarah Rees Brennan, +magic, *fandomer-written, #urban-fantasy, #fantasy, #young adult, +twins

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 "Her Fearful Simmetry" by Audrey Niffenegger

First read: 17.10.2009
Comments: The Time traveler's wife set really high expectations for Niffenegger's second novel. Then when the topic at hand: twins, turned out to be much to my taste it seemed like i had won a literary lottery of some kind. Turns out I handn't, the novel, although not bad, it's not ( Read more... )

“El deu de les coses petites” d'Arundhati Roy.

Notes: Es una miqueta llent a rats però la prosa poética generalment fluex bé i té moments de absoluta bellesa, com la descripció de ho que fa una bona historia. Spoiler: me encantaron los mellizos, y me veía venir el sexo desde que se reencontraron pero lamentablemente estaba mirando mellizos en la ( Read more... )