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The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black – book review
Court intrigue ahoy! “We have lived in our armor for so long, you and I. And now I am not sure if either of us knows how to remove it.” Holly Black’s sensual and lush writing style perfectly complements the menacing world her heroine inhabits. Black’s silvery prose brims with lavish descriptions: she renders the…
1st pov, 4 STARS, AMERICAN AUTHOR, BOOK REVIEW, Booklr, BOOKWORM, court intrigue, ENEMIES TO LOVERS, f/f side, FAERIES, FAIRY TALES, FAIRYLAND, FANTASY, favourite authors, female authors, HOLLY BLACK, HYPED, lgbtq+ side, MAGIC, PARANORMAL, queer side characters, READ IN 2019, REVIEW, ROMANCE, sea, THE CRUEL PRINCE, the folk of the air, the queen of nothing, URBAN FANTASY, YOUNG ADULT -
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton — book review
Step aside, Becky Sharp. Move over, Scarlett O’Hara…make way for Undine Spragg, the most unscrupulous anti-heroine I have ever encountered. “[S]he could not conceive that any one could tire of her of whom she had not first tired.” Wharton once again focuses her narrative on a young woman’s unrelenting attempts at social climbing. While Wharton…
1910s, 20th century, 3rd pov, 4 STARS, affairs, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, american classics, aristocracy, bad love, beautiful prose, BOOK REVIEW, Booklr, BOOKWORM, class, CLASSICS, Edith Wharton, favourite authors, FRANCE, HISTORICAL FICTION, Italy, LITERARY FICTION, MARRIAGE, NEW YORK, PRIVILEGE, psychological, published in 1913, READ IN 2019, SOCIAL COMMENTARY, The Custom of the Country, travel -
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton — book review
“A person’s fortune always changes in the telling of it.” Turns out that reading The Luminaries was a phenomenal waste of my time. Eleanor Catton writes well, and the concept behind her novel had the potential of being interesting, but on the whole The Luminaries seems to be little more than a dull rehash of…
1860s, 19TH CENTURY, 3 STARS, 3rd pov, Adult, astrology, big books, bombastic style, BOOK REVIEW, Booklr, BOOKWORM, CRIME, drama, Eleanor Catton, female authors, HISTORICAL FICTION, Hokitika, ISLAND, LITERARY FICTION, man booker winner, murder mystery, MYSTERY, mystery puzzle, new zealand, New Zealand author, prostitution, published in 2013, READ IN 2019, REVIEW, sensation fiction, ship, The Luminaries
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