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…
Now, I’m cheating a little because I technically haven’t finished reading this book yet. I had to put it down because it was trending toward being a little too exciting. See, my reading time these days normally happens when I’m winding down for sleep — and I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with sleep. So…
The Tales of Pell series is obviously a string of parodies, and this one is just as obviously a play on The Princess Bride. I certainly enjoyed the first book in the series, titled Kill the Farm Boy. The second book, No Country for Old Gnomes, failed to capture my interest and I didn’t finish…
The ARC fairy has been kind to me lately. Here are some of the ones I’ve received recently.
If you’ve read a lot of epic fantasy, you know a lot of tropes. Well, this book is what you’ve been reading for. You’ll take great pleasure in checking each trope off your list as it’s twisted over and turned on its head (and then kicked in its upturned pants for good measure). You’ll snort…