Pale Demon, the brand-new, ninth installment of Kim Harrison’s The Hollows series, takes Rachel Morgan and her offbeat, dysfunctional band of merry men on the road — and what a long, strange trip it is! Shunned witch Rachel has but a few days to get to a crucial meeting on the west coast that will determine… Read More Perfect Romance Review: Pale Demon, by Kim Harrison
Malinda Lo’s Ash is a beautifully unique take on the Cinderella story. Aisling, our girl who likes to sit amongst the cinders, is not just the victim of an evil stepmother and uncaring stepsisters, but also of her crippling grief. The loss of her mother, in particular, haunts Ash so deeply that she wants to… Read More Ash, by Malinda Lo
After the Bitch magazine brouhaha last week, I did some thinking about the women in books that impacted me when I was growing up. Ninety percent of what I read featured female protagonists or prominent female supporting characters, and while I wouldn’t rush to call this a list of feminist books (since an outlet like… Read More Books With Girls Who Kick Ass
Bitch Magazine recently named their list of 100 Young Adult Books for the Feminist Reader. After a few dissenting comments and e-mails (the ol’ “the lurkers support me in e-mail!” argument), they yanked three books off the list for being inappropriate and triggering: Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan, Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce, and Living… Read More Must be the season of the Bitch!
Eloisa James’ brand-new release When Beauty Tamed the Beauty managed to effortlessly tame this reader! A delightful story with vivid, genuinely funny characters, When Beauty Tamed the Beast combines elements of the classic fairy tale with the more modern story of House M.D.‘s cantankerous doc, Gregory House. Linnet Thrynne is the kind of beautiful woman that… Read More Perfect Romance Review: When Beauty Tamed the Beast, by Eloisa James
“One more chapter,” I told myself, as the numbers on my bedside digital clock blurred from 8 to 9 to 10. Before I knew it, I was straight through to the end of When the Stars Go Blue, by Caridad Ferrer and it was after 11 o’clock. Ferrer’s 2006 release Adios To My Old Life… Read More When the Stars Go Blue, by Caridad Ferrer
I’m really bad at keeping track of what I want to read, and I always wind up wandering aimlessly around bookstores, going, “What was I looking for again?” So, here’s an effort to combat that malady right out of the gate this year. When the Stars Go Blue, by Caridad Ferrer (en route to me;… Read More The TBR pile (so far!) for 2011
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