Note: this post will contain some minor plot spoilers for Daughter of the Blood, because it’s hard to talk about book two in this particular series without giving away the ending of the previous book. Throughout Daughter of the Blood, we followed the story of Jaenelle, a child who was born with inconceivable magical power.Read more
Daughter of the Blood is a dark fantasy novel by Anne Bishop. And I do mean dark. I started reading this book around a decade ago. There were things I loved about it, but I was also deeply uncomfortable with some of the more graphic violence, including sexual violence. But sometimes books that don’t workRead more
Cottonwood by R. Lee Smith is another slow burn monster/human romance. Aliens came to earth and were quickly separated from humans. The protagonist, Sarah Fowler, has just accepted a new job as a social worker with the organization in charge of resettling and integrating the bug-like aliens. But “resettling” and “integrating” are loaded terms, andRead more
A couple months ago at the end of Dungeons & Dragons night, one of my friends put forth a proposition. She had read a review online about some kind of eldritch erotica book, and she said she’d buy it if we’d read it too. Eldritch erotica sounded like the most bizarre subgenre I’d ever heardRead more
Next up on my stack of pulpy vintage trash… Sorcerer’s Legacy by Janny Wurts. The basic premise is this: a woman named Elienne has sex with her husband. She’s pregnant, but doesn’t know it yet. The next morning, an invading army kills her husband, and Elienne is captured and thrown into a cell. She’s then visited byRead more
One day I found myself in Barnes & Noble browsing for something to read. I like the idea of romance novels more than I actually like romance novels, but I decided to check out the romance section of the store anyway. I pick up this book to read the cover, and see something about timeRead more
Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire is the first book in the Ghost Roads series. It’s about a girl named Rose Marshall who was run off the road and killed on prom night. Now Rose is a ghost, and she travels among America’s highway preparing to confront Bobby Cross, the man who killed her. But thatRead more
Before I do my annual New Year’s blogging resolutions, I want to take a few moments to wrap up 2018. Over the past few months, I’ve barely touched my blog, but I haven’t completely stopped reading. I want to start 2019 with a clean slate by sharing some short thoughts on some of the booksRead more
So, this post was supposed to be up almost a month ago now as part of the My TBR List meme. But life happened. I spent my spring in a Benadryl-induced haze to get through one of the worst allergy seasons I’ve experienced. And then when I was finally feeling like a human again, IRead more
I love Jeffe Kennedy’s books, and had been meaning to start her Sorcerous Moons trilogy for a while now. (And by “for a while” I mean “since 2016,” because my TBR pile has been known to get the better of me.) I finally charged my Kindle and got around to reading this one, and IRead more