The Primroses Were Over

Being a V.C. Andrews junkie in my darker moments, I couldn't quite resist this when I saw it on Netgalley. If you've ever read a V.C....

Despite sometimes quite lovely prose, this collection suffered from both of my pet peeves in a horror story collection: I was not scared,...

This is one of those strange situations where I know that by any proper measure a book was not good, but I kind of enjoyed reading it...

This was kind of a disappointment to me. Now, that's not completely the fault of the book itself: it introduced some interesting ideas,...

This wasn't as good as the original, but it wasn't as bad as I had heard in a few places. A lot of the issue was that the first one was...

This seems to be what happens when a fairy tale prince goes terribly wrong. I picked this up from the library without realising it was...

This was a pretty hard abandon at 25% in. It just felt way too much like a commercial for the toys to me. This is coming from someone who...

I probably ought to start out by stating that I am kind of a big Sarah Rees Brennan fan. It would be a problem if I felt like my literary...

I picked this up originally thinking I had a few pregnant friends and co-workers who would probably appreciate something cute and...

This was kind of brilliant. The formatting--setting the whole novel up as a series of interview transcripts--added a layer of mystery to...

One of my close friends is reading The Shining for the first time, and it's apparently got me in a creepy mood. Patterns for IT and The...

This is not my favorite Georgette Heyer book (Cotillion still holds my heart, I'm afraid), but her books are remarkably readable and fun...

This had an interesting premise, though the family secret mentioned in the synopsis was not the way I thought it would go. It dealt with...

Given this story is a grand total of four pages (seriously guys, it is really short), there's not too much I can really say about it...

I've finally made and properly posted another cross stitch pattern to my store! I have been slow with that, given the fact that I moved...

This wasn't terrible, but it felt quite a bit like a very early novel. The author is clearly trying to find a voice, and he is starting...

This took me an awfully long time to read, but not because I wasn't enjoying it. This is the kind of book you want to have around to read...

Unfortunately, I found the framing story of this to be significantly more interesting than the main story we spend our time with, which...

So the plot of this was moderately convoluted and things wrapped up a bit quickly at the end, and the entirety of it was sometimes a bit...