Saturday, January 28, 2017

Tarnished Knight (London Steampunk #1.5) by Bec McMaster

Tarnished Knight (London Steampunk Book 1.5) by Bec McMaster
Paperback: 120 pages
Publisher: Bec McMaster; 1 edition (April 21, 2013)
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

This novella is only available as an eBook.

Like my review of Kiss of Steel I would say that there's no real steampunk in this story besides a brief mentions of the main character, Rip, having mechanical limb, but it doesn't run on steam as far as I know right now in the series.

I might try one more book in the series, to see if it does evolve into steampunk, but as it is right now it is just a romance series with the typical paranormal vampires and werewolves.


Currently watching:

Labyrinth (30th Anniversary Edition)
I love this movie so much.

Currently reading:

The Grand Tour Or, The Purloined Coronation Regalia (The Cecelia and Kate Novels Book 2) by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
The letters continue! The ladies are writing in diaries.

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Saturday, January 21, 2017

Kiss of Steel (London Steampunk #1) by Bec McMaster

Kiss of Steel (London Steampunk Book 1) by Bec McMaster
Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca (September 1, 2012)
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

This isn't a bad book, but there's very little steampunk in it. I think the most steampunk you get in this book is a brief introduction to a man with a replaced limb, which seems more like a prosthetic as I believe the limb doesn't run on steam. I do wish the differences between vampires and "blue bloods" was explained better.

I would have described this book as paranormal romance, maybe even historical romance, I would not have used the term steampunk to describe it. I might try some more of the series, but from the view point that I am reading a romance story, and not a steampunk story. Not that they need to be exclusive, it's just that at the end of book 1 I haven't seen anything that I would have deemed steampunk.




Currently watching:

Robotech Volume 3 - Blind Game
Jasmine and I are having fun watching this.

Currently reading:

Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot (The Cecelia and Kate Novels Book 1) by by Patricia C. Wrede and, Caroline Stevermer
The first of a series of letter books. The characters write back forth to each other about what is happening to them.


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Friday, January 20, 2017

Splintered by A.G. Howard

<Splintered Book One by A.G. Howard
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Amulet Paperbacks (February 18, 2014)
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars

I don't even know where to start with this book. It was a hot mess. I really like the stories of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (and What Alice Found There) and it is very irritating when they get mixed together, glaring at you Tim Burton.

Alyssa Gardener's matriarchal family line goes back to Alice Liddell, the original traveler to Wonderland. Alyssa is trying to break the family curse that goes back to that Alice Liddell, and save her mother, who she calls Allison.

Then there's Jeb. What does she see in him? Sure he might have an attractive outward appearance, but he's horrible to Alyssa. And then there's Morpheus, the supposedly less creepy option.

Really this book just needs a lot of help with how mental illness is treated, I figure that the author wanted to throw back to how people were treated in the Victorian ages, but we've moved on from then and there are laws now. You don't have to like a guy who treats you like crap, nor do you have to like a guy who's a creepy stalker.



Currently watching:

Robotech Archives: The Macross Saga Vol. 2
Jasmine and I are having fun watching this.

Currently reading:

If the Magic Fits (100 Dresses Book 1) by Susan Maupin Schmid
I'm really enjoying this book, I should have read it sooner!


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Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Flunked by Jen Calonita

Flunked (Fairy Tale Reform School Book 1) by Jen Calonita
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky; Reprint edition (February 2, 2016)
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Flunked is the story of Gillian (Gilly) Cobbler, daughter of Hal and Eva Cobbler. Gillian is just trying to help her family survive after the family shoe business begins to fail when Cinderella takes over the production of glass slippers. But when she gets caught stealing again she's thrown into Fairy Tale Reform School, run by no other than Cinderella's Wicked Stepmother, Flora. Gilly's goal, escape as soon as possible. She still has younger siblings to steal for, in order to feed them.

As the story progresses Gilly makes a few friends while she still attempts to leave the school, and discovers a more sinister plot.


Currently watching:

Monster Hunt
This is a hilarious Chinese movie. I watched it with my 10 year-old daughter and she really enjoyed it too, she asked if there were more "episodes," and was disappointed that there was only the one movie.
EDIT: May 25, 2019 there is a second movie now, Monster Hunt 2

Currently reading:

If the Magic Fits (100 Dresses Book 1) by Susan Maupin Schmid
I'm really enjoying this book, I should have read it sooner!


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Sunday, January 15, 2017

Matched by Ally Condie

Matched by Ally Condie
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Speak (2011)
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars

I have to admit I really didn't care for this book. I'm really starting to hate the trend of Dystopian books where people are separated for bizarre (i.e. dumb) reasons with no real explanations for the separations. (E.g. The Hunger Games, Divergent, Uglies, or Delirium.) Seriously, who in the future is going to think that love is a disease you need a vaccine against, or that you have live with only being self-less in your faction, but you can't be honest and self-less, because that'd mean your "Divergent."

So, I've read a few reviews where people compare (actually most say stolen) the book to Lowis Lowry's The Giver, but I have to honestly admit that I've never read that book, yet. To me the story was very much like George Orwell's 1984. The whole, wearing uniforms, having to like/love someone in secret, the taking the pills every day, and the curfews just screamed 1984 to me.

I think part of why it was hard for me to read this book was I had just finished Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard, which has all the Young Adult Dystopian tropes, and so does Matched. Either way, I won't be reading the next book in the series, which is Crossed if you do want to read it.

Currently watching:

Elementary: Season 3
I really like that Lucy Liu's Joan Watson isn't seen as a love interest for Jonny Lee Miller's Sherlock Holmes. I think that it is great that Watson, after spending time with Holmes and learning from him, is shown as a competent detective in her own right.

Currently reading:

The Seafront Tearoom by Vanessa Greene
Not something that I would normally read, since it isn't genre fiction! But we'll see how it goes. It does involve tea, lots of tea, and I do love tea.


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