Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake Just when I thought that the mini-genre of dark fantasy YA couldn’t be mined for anything else, something comes along like this took that charms the pants off me. How could you fail to be entranced when it opens with a teenage ghost hunter picking up a dead …
Tag: romance
Jun 05
Book Review- The Silver Metal Lover
The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee This is a very nice SF love story that, if I had read it when I was a teenager, would probably have crept into my soul and stayed there. The protagonist, Jane, is a spoiled rich girl who knows she’s a spoiled rich girl and feels enough chagrin …
Nov 12
Book Review: The Grand Sophy
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer The Grand Sophy is in keeping with the rest of Georgette Heyer’s novels, a genre-defining Regency romance. If you like Regency romance, this book will likely please you. It pleased me. There’s something amusing and refreshing about spending time with people for whom “what shall I wear to the …
Mar 12
Here Birdy! Birdy!: How Not To Pick Up Women
So this guy approached me in the local supermarket. He was in his mid thirties or early forties, dressed casual but not sloppy, black, but not unattractive. He said “excuse me” and asked me what my name is. We were on the far side of the store with the socks and make up and feminine …
Dec 31
Book Review: The Gargoyle
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson As with many books, there were things I liked very much about this novel, and other things I didn’t care for at all. The strength of this novel is in its passion, not just of the characters for one another but of the narrator with language. The prose borders on …