I hit a spate of straight 4 and 5 star books last month. It was AMAZING.

Hawkeye vs. Deadpool Duggan, Gerry  *4.18

This was funnnny. Gerry Duggan took Matt Fraction's Hawkeye(s) and wrote them to a T! He also did a great job with Deadpool, though I'm not conversant enough in Deadpool to say 'whose' he is.

It's Halloween - Deadpool did NOT dress up ( Read more... )

What Makes This Book So Great Walton, Jo * 3.84

This book is DANGEROUS. I added like 15 books to my goodreads to-be-read list. 
Jo Walton writes/wrote a column for Tor.com where she reread SFF books and wore short essays about them. (Hence, "What makes this book so great.")

I don't always agree with her assessments - she doesn't like Cetaganda but I ( Read more... )

Here's what I've read since last week:

July 4th was good to me.

Voice of the Lost (Medair, #2) Höst, Andrea K. * 4.01

So... everything fell apart in part two. The fact that i could keep NO ONE's name straight didn't help, but this became a forbidden romance story over a war which was not the time travel angst I signed up for. And then there was the ( Read more... )

Read this Week:

The Silence of Medair (Medair, #1) Höst, Andrea K. * 4.14

I have pretty much no idea who anyone's name in this book is, they're all too fantasy-same-y. But MAN do I like the plot. I've put in a interlibrary loan request for part two.

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Where Shadows Dance (Sebastian St. Cyr, #6) Harris, C.S. * 4.22

Good times, good times.

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IN NON BOOK NEWS - I HAVE A SMARTPHONE NOWWWWWW. I CAN TEXT WITH IMPUNITY AND BE ON ALL THE FUN APPS!
It's a Samsung Galaxy S5 and I am so thrilled.

A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1) Peters, Ellis 3.99

I've heard about the Cadfael books/ TV series for aaages. I'm pleased to have now read the first one, but I don't think I' ( Read more... )

A Spy in the House (The Agency, #1) Lee, Y.S. * 3.78
I was not brought as much joy as I could wish from this book. It was fine! But I bet I could have been happier than I was with a book about a biracial thief trained up to be an infiltrator ans spy by a victorian espionage sisterhood.

Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan (and ( Read more... )

Champion of the Scarlet Wolf Book Two Hale, Ginn* 4.46
Part the second of Champion of the Scarlet Wolf: now that shit has gone down, we will let things settle a tiny bit and then SHIT WILL GO DOWN (again).

Skellan saved Milmuraille from the Demon Lord andGrimma Orsir is now dead. He also found out that he’s actually the stolen son of count Radulf ( Read more... )

A Broken Vessel (Julian Kestrel Mysteries, #2) Ross, Kate

Moar Regency murder mystery? Moar Regency murder mystery!

Sally Stokes, a bold and bewitching Cockney prostitute, picks up three men one after the other and nicknames them Bristles, Blue Eyes, and Blinkers. From each of them Sally steals a handkerchief--and from one she mistakenly steals ( Read more... )

Books I've Read

A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab

Kell is one of the last of the magicians with the power to travel from London to London. He is the forcibly adopted Prince of Red London - the capital of  a mighty magic-embued empire. Kell is one of only two known Anatari who can jump between the Londons using blood magic to convey diplomatic ( Read more... )