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...
Review - 'The Kiss Quotient' by Helen Hoang
Here I was, thinking I'm getting too old and cynical to enjoy a romance. And The Kiss Quotient comes along and totally blows me away.In recent years, I've started to give up on romances. I pick up so many, yet only a few have...
Review - 'Dissolution' by Nicholas Binge
What the heck was this? I think I'm going to need a few more rereads to wrap my head around it all.When it comes to speculative fiction, you just never know what you're going to get. Sometimes there's a great premise, but no follow-through....
Review - 'Any Trope but You' by Victoria Lavine
On the one hand, I did have some fun with this one. But on the other hand, shouldn't these characters be in therapy instead of a romcom?Let me preface this by saying that my opinion here is decidedly in the minority. I see so...