Book related posts (from a reader’s point of view – see ‘Writer’s Life’ for writing posts).
Laura Anne Gilman is a solid writer who usually has a unique take on things. (Wine. Magic. Enough said.) Her political rants are also on point — look up her Patreon or social media accounts. So I’m always surprised that she’s not way more popular than she actually is. Maybe this series* will change that….
Those who know me know that I am not only a sucker for Greek mythology but that I have a particular liking for the Persephone myth. Honestly, it’s less the Persephone-and-Hades dynamic than it is seeing this Daughter of the Harvest flower goddess become a powerful queen of dark magic. I like the Eleusinian mysteries…
This novel is a meal of a mystery wrapped in a thriller with a heavy spice of Female Rage. … And if you’re a woman Of A Certain Age… being made to feel useless… Who hasn’t wanted to respond to all of that by murdering the shit out of the people who make you feel that way?
You win, Jennifer Estep, you win. I am already in the middle of reading everything you’ve ever written. Seriously, I’ve read this in-progress series, I’ve got one more book in the Crown of Shards series to read. I’m, I think, 4 books or so in on the Elemental Assassin series, and holy Bob, I’m finding…
So I didn’t realize, when I picked it up, that this book is the 3rd in a series. I haven’t read the first two. Maybe I wouldn’t have felt quite as lost if I had read those, but I didn’t, and here we are. Much like Gilda with her lover, Cherub, I went through this…