Book reviews.
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…
This book was really good, very tight, super intense… and I don’t think I can finish it. I don’t know what I was thinking when I requested it, other than I’m a fan of Delilah in general. Thrillers are not my cup of tea, usually. I’m anxious by nature so I don’t enjoy making myself…