I bought The Atlas Six because I accidentally bought the sequel first. And I’m more than slightly annoyed by this, because the ending of this book was so underwhelming. It’s like they ere’chopped off any kind of ending or build up to something happening. There is a major thing that happens, but it’s way earlier … Continue reading
I know I am several years late to the party, but what a great novel! I can see why it won the Women’s Prize for Fiction and got all the accolades it did. So for of those of you who missed it during the hype and wondered if it it’s good, it definitely is! It’s … Continue reading
I very much enjoy these types of books, essentialy women going on interesting adventures or doing very difficult things. I think I picked up this book after Emily Chappell posted it on Instagram, and since I loved Emily’s own book, it seemed like a no brainer to pick it up (or in this case, put … Continue reading
I know I usually complain about a book not being pace-y or not having enough description-to-plot ratio for my liking, but occasionally even I think we need to take the plot a little more slow. That was definitely the case with The Red Scholar’s Wake, which felt like it just wanted to get to the … Continue reading
This was definitely an impulse purchase on my birthday. As I had spent so much of the year reading through my to-read shelf, I got to replenish it on my birthday. I hadn’t had a whole lot of luck on things that I wanted to read that were newer, but was intrigued by the blurb. … Continue reading
Oh man, I’m really 3 for 3 of the last fiction books on my to-read shelf being, well, not for me. I really enjoyed the previous novels from Rebecca Roanhorse but I found Black Sun lacking. I also somewhat resented the structure of the book, but we’ll get into that. So, the setting is the … Continue reading
Stone Blind is the story of Medusa, of Gorgon fame. The plot revolves around the various mortals, gods and goddesses that are involved in her ultimate beheading by Perseus. Unlike A Thousand Ships (another book by Natalie Haynes), this one has a fairly irreverent tone. The gods and goddesses are always whining, as are some … Continue reading
The main plot revolves around Hessa, a disgraced warrior-priestess of the goddess Eang. But the larger struggle is between the old gods and new gods, which Hessa get’s all tied up in. Continue reading
I had to read the Wikipedia synopsis of the plot to remember what the hell had happened in the first two books because it’s A LOT. I think I like these stories, they are compelling in a way that feels slightly undeserved for how incomplete the explanations are for mostly everything that happens. In this … Continue reading
What was astounding was how many of the women, especially pre-20th century, were famous for being artists in their own time. But then instantly forgotten or written out of a male dominated history. Continue reading
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