Welp, that was a huge disappointment. When you talk about the distance between expectations and reality, Babel was about as far apart as you can get.But before I get into that, let me start with a disclaimer. As you can see, I did not...
Review - 'The Bride Test' by Helen Hoang
Helen Hoang has a real knack for taking a fairly fluffy genre and elevating it to something more.It starts with the characters. Every single one of her characters feels so genuine and so sharp that they just jump off the pages, and Esme and...
Review - 'Strange Pictures' by Uketsu
Calling all mystery fans! Here's one you're not going to want to miss.Can a mystery be laid out such that all the clues you need to solve it are in a few drawings? Sure, if it's simple. But what about an intricate, multi-part, multi-crime...
Review - 'A Fate Inked in Blood' by Danielle L. Jensen
Here I was, thinking I was getting an epic tale inspired by Norse mythology. Instead, what I got was a bunch of horny, unwashed Vikings rubbing up against each other while going on pointless quests.To be fair, A Fate Inked in Blood didn't start...
Review - 'A Study in Scarlet Women' by Sherry Thomas
A delightful start to what I hope will be a very long series, A Study in Scarlet Women has everything I could want in a female Sherlock Holmes.Lady Charlotte Holmes has chafed all her life against the restrictions placed around a woman in the...
Review - 'Homeseeking' by Karissa Chen
"We can never again be who we were . . . It's impossible. We've already missed each other."I left Shanghai when I was nine. By the time I was able to make it back for a visit almost a decade later, the city of...
Review - 'Julie Chan Is Dead' by Liann Zhang
I know that Chloe normally looks more put together, but compared to a corpse, I must look okay, right?Huh, I don't quite know how to feel about this. Suffice to say, this is one of the more unhinged books I've read in quite some...
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