Even if I could ignore that the writing of this book was so repetitive that I was able to skip half the book and still follow the revelations at the end, I can't ignore that it contained both the most amazing and worst police work I have ever seen in a book ( 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... )

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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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several months ago, i found that there was free Kindle and Nook apps for the iPod. that plus free ebooks = score!

the freebies are mostly okay to not-bad reads, (what i rank on goodreads as three stars). some are absolutely phenomenal....and of course, some are complete flops.

Penelope Fletcher's Glamour is one of the flops.

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A sequel to my post about Leigh Fallon's meltdown! Yet another YA author is losing her shit because someone wrote a negative review of her book, The Selection. But this one gets better: she and her agent, Elena Roth, talk on Twitter about getting all their friends/clients to go to Goodreads to "like" all the positive reviews. And of course, there ( Read more... )

( This is what authors are NOT supposed to do. )