I have to be brutally honest here: I quit reading genre fiction for about ten years and have just recently begun indulging in the genre again. I’ve found that I still very much love reading genre fiction and there was a lot that I’ve missed during my little sabbatical. While reintroducing myself to the genre, I bumped [...]
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The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
Posted in Fantasy, Fiction, Liked it, The Dragon's reviews, tagged epic fantasy, Fantasy, Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself, The First Law: Book One on February 20, 2012 | 4 Comments »
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
Posted in BookLove news, Chick Lit, Fiction, Liked it, tagged book review, book reviews, books, c, Fiction, North Carolina Writers, reading, reviews on April 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’ll keep this review short and sweet — kind of like Sarah Addison Allen’s books. This is Allen’s third book and much like Garden Spells and The Sugar Queen, it has elements of fairy tale mixed with small town North Carolina flavor and a pinch of romance. Emily Benedict returns to quirky Mullaby, North Carolina in [...]
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Posted in booklove's reviews, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Liked it, tagged book reviews, books, dinosaurs, Fiction, fossils, paleontology, reading, reviews, Tracy Chevalier on March 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Mary Anning truly was a remarkable creature. Born in 1799, she was struck by lightning at the age of one and survived. Living with her family in the village of Lyme Regis on the southern coast of Britain, little Mary spent many hours on the beach with her father searching for “curies” or “curiosities” which [...]
Twelve by Jasper Kent
Posted in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Horror, Liked it, The Dragon's reviews, tagged Aleksei Danilov, book reviews, books, French invasion of Russia, Maksim, Napoleonic Wars, Oprichniki, reading, reviews, Vadim, Vampire, voordalak on August 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Voordalak, voordalak, voordalak . . . ah, yes! Vampire. Hmm, even the Dragon is getting a little burned out on the vampire spin, but at least Kent does vampires right in his debut novel, Twelve. The Grande Armée of Napoleon Bonaparte is poised on Moscow’s doorstep in the autumn of 1812. In a desperate bid [...]
The Bell at Sealey Head by Patricia A. McKillip
Posted in booklove's reviews, Fantasy, Fiction, Liked it, tagged book reviews, books, Fantasy, Fiction, reading on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I believe this is the most recent book by Patricia McKillip (published in late 2008) and it is my third McKillip book. While I did enjoy it for the most part, it was the least satisfying McKillip book to date for me. The story centers around a crumbling manor house in the small town of [...]
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Posted in Fantasy, Fiction, Liked it, The Dragon's reviews, tagged book reviews, books, Fantasy, Fiction, neil gaiman, Neverwhere, reading on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having read Gaiman’s graphic novel, Coraline, I was eager to dig into his adult fantasy, Neverwhere, but as I moved through this book, I kept experiencing déjà vu. I began rooting through my old paperbacks and found that I had read Neverwhere when it was first published in 1996. I felt good knowing this wasn’t [...]
College Girl by Patricia Weitz
Posted in booklove's reviews, Chick Lit, Fiction, Liked it, tagged book reviews, books, reading on March 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Shy and awkward Natalie Bloom arrives at UConn, her dream school, as a junior after attending community college for two years. The youngest of seven children, Natalie is the first in her family to seek a higher education. Majoring in Russian history, Natalie spends literally all of her time in class or in the library studying, [...]

