Author: Kiara

Day 10 – A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving I thought when I picked up this very pink-themed book with its decidedly romance-y back cover blurb that there was a very good chance that I’d be disappointed. Especially with how much the book had been hyped in reviews and by…

Day 09 – Best scene ever Geez, this one is a really, really hard choice. There are a ton of books who could qualify for “best scene”. Like: The battleground scene of Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Dart, where Phedre is nearly skinned alive and Joscelin nearly performs the terminus. The climactic scene of Rob Thurman’s exciting…

Day 08 – Your favorite work in translation I’m embarrassed to say that, besides some work by English and Australian authors (which don’t really need to be translated at all), I haven’t read anything that fits into this category. But I do have this on my to-be-read shelf & I will get around to reading…

Day 07 – A writer you don’t like I’m going to interpret this in a different way, since I don’t know any authors well enough to dislike them personally. I’ll talk about an author whose work I dislike. One can be critical of an author’s work without being critical of the author themselves. Sadly, sometimes an…

Day 06 – Your favorite writer I have lots of favorite writers. I love Kim Harrison, Anne Bishop, Jacqueline Carey and David Eddings, among many others. If I had to choose one of those legion, however, I’d choose: Jim Butcher has managed to write urban fantasy with elements of noir, epic fantasy with Roman legions…