All the Books.

"McFadden's gift with pacing mixed with her dark but relatbale humor and a plot easy enough to follow but complicated enough to keep you guessing, well, she had me from the start. This was a fun, page-turner that had me eager to sit down and read."   ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pros: Enzo, duh, man was the real hero/McFadden's writing style is easy and smooth, very readable/The twists were fun and twisted indeed/The idea of a series makes me hesitate but at the same time I am curious, so we shall see.  Cons: Honestly, I think McFadden tied up every loophole so I appreciated the well thought out plot but at the same time, it was silly how every man that existed was utterly gorgeous 🤣.  Full Review:  Wilhelmina "Millie" Calloway is desperate. She's been evicted from her apartment, fired from her job and has been living out of her car and eating nothing but sandwiches for a month. So, when she manages to land a job as a house-keeper/maid for a well-to-do family in Long Island,...

“The Apprentice must become the Magician in order to rescue her kidnapped mentor. It had a Mary Poppins meets Nancy Drew feel but it was entertaining in a slightly absurd and hysterical way.” ⭐⭐ Pros: Ceony and Thane have an easy relationship/The idea of a magical school just existing was done well. It seemed that magic was common knowledge but at the same time, it had its secrets.  Cons: There’s always a Syndicate 🙄 but without bad guys there’d be no conflict/Also, the fact that Ceony had only been a student of Thane's for a month before Lira's attack and all of a sudden she's the desperate heroine off to save her true love. It all seemed rather sudden. Like, Ceony, you've known him for a month, relax.  Full Review: Ceony is fated to become the next apprentice to one of the very few Paper Magicians in London. She'd always had dreams of being a Smelter, a manipulator of metal, able to shape weapons. Instead, she's been assigned to be the Apprentice to one of th...

"Healers, Druids, Bishops, Teenagers who understand Quantum Mechanics/Time Lapses, Tesseracts. Let it all stew with angsty guilt-ridden YA romance and you have the conclusion to one of the most unique series I’ve ever read.” ⭐ Pros : I did like imagining the woods and surorundings, it had a very New England but eerie, misty Stonehenge vibe//There was a Dog/The connection with the land and the “Presence” was marginally interesting.  Cons: Goodness me, did L’Engle love her Apochrypha/Scripture, it was appreciated in an academic sense but as a storytelling device, it fell flat for me//I felt distant from Polly, the protagonist from the start, she was just kind of there at her grandparents with no explanation. It felt like a failed reboot/This book could've easily ended 100 pages earlier.  Full Review:   Polly, Meg's daughter, is living with her grandparents, the Murray's. She's been sent there since the local educaiton system was lacking and she's inherited her m...

"This book lived up to its name. It was truly dark with kidnappings, murder, desperate horrific death marches across the wastes of Mercury and truly unnatural alliances and though it was entertaining, there was a lot going on. There were some serious bombshells dropped at the end, so I'm hopeful that the next book has momentum but for my tired old brain's sake, I'm hoping that Brown takes it a little easy with the Dramatis Personae to remember." ⭐⭐⭐ Pros: Sevro and Victra/Ephraim and Volga/Atlantia is truly terrifying and I'm both frightened and interested to see what she'll get up to in the next book.  Cons: Too many people, Legionnaires, Praetors, Olympic Knights, I couldn't keep what was what straight/There were so many characters that when people died, I couldn't really remember who they were, so, I just wasn't all that affected by their death//Lysander, Mustang and Paxs' super brain powers got old fast. Full Review: ***Disclaimer - If ...

" The fourth installment in Pierce Brown's epic Space opera skips ahead 10 years. The war for the Solar Republic rages on and all Darrow wants is peace. He doesn't care about the politics. He just wants to rest and be with his family. But he's never given the chance as in typical Pierce Brown fashion, one catastrophic thing leads to another and then there's subterfuge, kidnappings, assassination attempts, everything and the kitchen sink. On re-read this was a great way to start off a new series." ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pros : Darrow's guilt/You want him to find peace but Brown makes it seem impossible, that's part of the pull, of course, the tragic hero.  Cons: Lots of people, sometimes tough to know if I should make a note to remember them/I wanted to see more of the brotherhood of the first book.  Full Review: ***Disclaimer - If you have not read Red Rising/Golden Son or Morning Star  by Pierce Brown, please do so and then feel free to read this post at your leisure....