Category: Book Reviews

Mini Audio Reviews: Together We Burn, Luminaries, Princess of Souls

Mini Audio Reviews: Together We Burn, Luminaries, Princess of Souls
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on June 2, 2023 | 0 Comments

While this book didn’t necessarily stick with me, the concept was awesome! DRAGONADORS!! Like matadors, but with dragons! Fucking awesome, dude. It was unlike anything I’ve ever read before! I adored the dragon parts of this story and appreciated the Spanish culture, but the emotion was just not there for me. I would have liked to have connected to the characters and the story much more than I did. Especially considering there were dragons! The romance didn’t do it for […]

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Audiobook Review: Fairy Tale by Stephen King

Audiobook Review: Fairy Tale by Stephen King
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on May 29, 2023 | 1 Comment

This isn’t my first King novel – I read the first two Dark Tower books and half of the third (and just…never finished, oops. I hit a suuuper boring part and never picked it back up again *shrugs*). I have to admit that I find his books intimidating, not only because they’re always HUGE but also because he’s SO hyped and I’m a black sheep. Baa. However, this one really worked for me! It’s almost two different stories in one, […]

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Review: Fire Season by David Weber

Review: Fire Season by David Weber
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on May 26, 2023 | 0 Comments

I’m SO sad I didn’t love this one like I did the first book. The shining star of the first is the relationship between Lionheart/Climbs Quickly and Stephanie, and I felt like it took a bit of a backseat in this one. It’s still fairly prominent, and still utterly beautiful and endearing; but it’s lessened from A Beautiful Friendship. We spent less time with Lionheart and that diminished my enjoyment a lot. I really could have done without the romance, […]

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Audiobook Review: In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune

Audiobook Review: In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on May 22, 2023 | 0 Comments

After Cerulean Sea, I would have picked this up regardless (even though I wasn’t a huge fan of Under the Whispering Door); but at YALLfest I saw him on a panel where he talked about the book and said it had a sentient Roomba with anxiety. And I KNEW I needed it asap! Said Roomba and the other sidekick robot, Nurse Ratched, were by far my favorite part about this book! Rambo the vacuum was adorably anxious and needy, which […]

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Mini Audio Reviews: Wild is the Witch, Belladonna, Our Crooked Hearts

Mini Audio Reviews: Wild is the Witch, Belladonna, Our Crooked Hearts
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on May 19, 2023 | 0 Comments

Overall this book was just okay for me. It fell completely in the mediocre middle ground – okay characters, okay world (albeit a bit vague), okay plot. It doesn’t really stand out in the sea of Urban Fantasy and witch books, and there’s nothing really all that special about it; but I did enjoy it while I was listening! The main thing that stood out about this book for me was the owl and the forest setting. Other than that […]

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Books I Didn’t Finish: Jan-April 2023

Books I Didn’t Finish: Jan-April 2023
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on May 17, 2023 | 1 Comment

The Midnight Lie DNF @ 42% I had high hopes for this, and have been looking forward to reading it because I loved the Winner’s Curse. Sadly, this one fell short of those expectations. It wasn’t bad or anything, I just didn’t care about a thing that was happening and found the prose to be very dry and boring. The main character has the personality of a wet rag and I couldn’t connect to her at all, which made me […]

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