The Rule Of One – Review

"The people can fight solely with their raised voices, and I've only ever heard them silenced. The ones with the guns always win." America as we know it, doesn't exist. They have walls surrounding them to the North and the South. They have technology in place to keep them safe. And they have a one [...]

August Wrap Up

"Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever." ~ George RR Martin Well friends. Just like that, summer is ending. We only get like a week of fall here in the desert, and I will cherish that week to no end. So it's only fitting to being this post [...]

July Wrap-Up

Alright 2018, you need to seriously slow THE F DOWN!!! I know I say this every month, but I really think this time I misplaced a month or three. They were just there... *sigh* Anyhoo, I suppose I should just proceed with my wrap-up and leave my disbelief over the monumental levels of procrastination that [...]

May Wrap-Up

How are we in June ALREADY?! It feels like I was in February like three days ago. This entire month felt like it flew by, and once again, I felt like I didn't get a lot read. Somehow I ended up reading 14, so not as slow as I thought. Who knew?! 72/125 - Goodreads [...]

Campaign Widows – Review

"This was a town that ran on power and proximity to power, not looks, not even money -- though looks and money never hurt." In this hilarious book, accurately described as Sex and the City meets The West Wing, we meet a whole new cast ready to steal your heart. And maybe your votes. Cady [...]

The Tangled Lands – Review

"Magic makes bramble, and bramble makes kisses, and kisses make sleep that lasts until Kpala's children tear us to pieces. It was always thus. And yet you put yourself above the rest of us, and now all that magic blows in the breeze and brings bramble calling." The Tangled Lands took me a bit by [...]

The Oracle Year – Review

"Anything can happen, Will Dando thought. In the next five seconds, in the next five years. Anything at all." One morning Will Dando woke up with 108 predictions ringing loudly in his mind. They were specific, and seemed to make no real sense. He wasn't even sure it was real. Except he couldn't get them [...]

Pride & Prometheus – Review

"It showed that people could convince themselves of things that, in a sober moment, they would recognize were not true." Pride and Prometheus is the delightful combination of two beloved classics: Jane Austin's Pride & Prejudice with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. While it may seem difficult to imagine how the two stories could merge, John Kessel [...]