Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment.
Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he’s the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come to him for answers. For the “everyday” world is actually full of strange and magical things — and most of them don’t play well with humans. That’s where Harry comes in. Takes a wizard to catch a — well, whatever.
There’s just one problem. Business, to put it mildly, stinks. So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry’s seeing dollar signs. But where there’s black magic, there’s a black mage behind it. And now that mage knows Harry’s name. And that’s when things start to get… interesting.
Magic. It can get a guy killed.
Trigger/Content warnings:
I…can’t remember all of them.
blood
gore
dead bodies
misogyny/sexism
Representation:
…literally nothing, lmao
⭐⭐ 2/5 stars
Storm Front follows a wizard named Harry Dresden, who hires himself out as a private investigator/consultant. As a string of murders comes to light, all clues pointing to Harry, he has to find out quickly who’s framing him
Yes, hi, hello, I uhh really hated this book
I do not like Harry as a character. Like. At all. He’s so misogynistic, and he hits me as the “m’lady” type
Literally none of the woman characters (like…three??? maybe???) are written well at all. They’re all flat caricatures. I mean, tbh, all the characters are pretty flat, but it was really obvious with the characters who were women
This is definitely a personal thing, and not an objectively bad thing, but I found the plot boring because it was one of those police procedural-type books. I love them as TV shows, but not as books; I just find them as boring
On top of that, I felt like the world-building was a bit lackluster
The two stars go entirely to the talking skull
I know that some of these problems would probably be resolved the longer the series goes, but uhhh, I’m not giving my time and effort to a book series with over 15 books and not knowing if the payback is worth it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“High school senior Van Liss is barely human. He thinks of himself as a scarecrow—ragged and unnerving, stuck, and destined to spend his life cold and alone. If he ever had feelings, they were stomped out long ago by his selfish mother and her lecherous boyfriend. All he’s been left with is bitter contempt, to which he clings.
“With a rough exterior long used to keep the world at bay, Van spooks George Curaco, the handsome new frycook at the diner where he works. But George C senses there is more to the untouchable Van and refuses to stop staring, fascinated by his eccentricity. When Van learns that George C is even more cold, alone, and frightened than himself, Van welcomes him to his empty home. And ends up finding his heart.
“Their road to trust is rocky and, at times, even dangerous. And looming evil threatens to keep them apart forever.
“Fair warning: You may want to strap in. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.”
Trigger/Content warnings for the novel:
Sexual assault as a child
Sex trafficking
Anti-asexual rhetoric
Representation in the novel:
m/m relationships
[note: there could be characters of color, but for the life of me, I can’t remember; it’s taken a while for me to finish this]
⭐⭐ 2/5 stars
This book seemed like borderline trauma porn, which…gross. Add that to the fact that the characters were annoying and flat, the pacing was completely off, and how I couldn’t suspend my disbelief, and you now have an author that I won’t read from in the future.
The Scarecrow and George C. follows two characters: Van, a high school loner who works at a diner, and George C., a high school dropout that recently starts to work at that same diner. Van wears a scarecrow get-up as a way to keep a distance between himself and others and prevent them from getting close. However, he and George C. eventually become closer and tentatively begin a friendship and then, eventually, a romantic relationship.
I have so many issues with this book, so let’s just go down the list…
The writing style/voice made me want to DNF so many times. Listen, I really wasn’t a fan of either voice used in the novel. It’s told from dual perspectives: Van’s and George C.’s. And let me tell you…they were both annoying. They both kept breaking the fourth wall, addressing the reader, but outside of being “quirky,” it added nothing to the story. Most of the time (especially if it was Van’s POV) it was arrogant, and it had my eyes rolling throughout the book. On top of that, it got to a point about halfway through the novel where the voices of Van and George C. became indistinguishable to me. Outside of Van’s perspective having more “edgy” (read: irritating) quips, the tone and voice used were practically the same. Again, something that probably wasn’t needed.
The protagonists. Dear Universe, the protagonists. If you want two protagonists trying so hard to be edgy and angst-ridden, this book is for you. I absolutely could not stand either of them, Van or George C. Van is constantly talking to the reader about how edgy he is, and how he needs to be a loner because *tragic backstory here* (because of course this novel is in first-person), but my goodness, I couldn’t stand it. He says he’s all edgy and everything, but he never shows it. And listen, I’m all for people dealing with their trauma in different ways (and being sexually assaulted as a child is, indeed, traumatic), but the way his whole scarecrow get-up was described had me rolling my eyes (again).
And George C….oh, George C. He, too, has had a tragic past, this time from being sex trafficked. Throughout the novel, he constantly thinks he isn’t good enough to have sex with, and his shame from being trafficked is thick. He constantly called himself dirty, used, and any other sex-shaming thing. Again, people deal with trauma in different ways. I have no issue with that. But I felt like neither he nor Van really experienced any character development that was worth my time as a reader. It very much seemed surface value to me, and I was not invested in either of their stories.
Side characters? Oh, you mean those people that only serve a single purpose? I thought Van and George C. were flat characters, but then I ran into the side characters. There are students from Van’s school who run a literature journal and end up befriending Van. But is this friendship ever shown at all to the reader outside of what Van can do for the magazine/journal? Nope, not really. His bosses at the diner are just the caring gay couple who swoop in to save the day. His mom? Ignored the potential abuse that was happening to Van as a child, but suddenly had a change-of-heart, so now that makes her good…I guess? There seemed to be an attempt at depth, with her and Van still having a fragile relationship, but it wasn’t done well, in my opinion.
Now, the elephant in the room. Or, should I say, the elephant that is the foundation of this novel: the trauma porn. Listen. This was probably the biggest thing that got me, outside of the voice of the characters. First, we have Van, who was nearly raped by his mother’s then-boyfriend when he was younger. The only thing that stopped the boyfriend was Van saying no. However, he still touched him, petted him, and basically sexually assaulted him. It got to the point where he couldn’t sleep in his own bed anymore, and it was the reason he set up all of his defenses against others and doesn’t trust anyone.
Now enter George C., who was pushed into prostitution for all of…five days? A week, tops? Before he got out of there after having two clients. He constantly talks about how he isn’t clean, that Van wouldn’t want him because of how gross he is, and that he doesn’t deserve sex with anyone again due to having sex twice with men in exchange for money.
So we have these two boys who think they aren’t worthy of love, or don’t want to get close to anyone, or think they’re sick, or all of the above. But then, when they meet and become closer… All of that suddenly disappears, through the power of love (can you sense my sarcasm?). George C. is enough to get Van to sleep in his own bed again, Van is enough to make George C. not feel disgusted about wanting to bone Van, and they are both enough to somehow heal each other’s past traumas. Which. Uh. Is not how any of this works. But I guess it can melt the hearts of readers? Except not me because, ultimately, I just felt uncomfortable at the end. It felt like there was just enough trauma to make people feel bad and swoon once the pair got together, but not enough where it would…be too horrible, I guess?
I just did not like how this novel dealt with any of it. Because, in the end, there was no actual discussion about it. Sure, Van and George C. talked about their pasts, but what about talk of therapy or counseling? Talk of trying to unlearn certain thought processes or habits? Or anything that would be healthy for them in the long run? None of that happened, and it made me feel gross in return because it just makes it seem like their traumas were used only to cause drama and character “””development”””. I put development in sarcastic quotes because, well, there was little development for either of them. All they developed was their relationship. And once that was established, poof, their traumas went away at the end. For anyone reading, that’s not how trauma works. Like. At all.
So yeah, was not a fan of this at all. Probably won’t read anything else from this author. Someone may like it if they’re looking for edgy teen/young adult protagonists and a shit-ton of angst. But I was not at all happy with how trauma was dealt with in this novel. (Also, be aware of the trigger/content warnings!)
“His name is Farden. “They whisper that he’s dangerous. “Dangerous is only the half of it.
“A spellbook has gone missing from the libraries of Arfell – a very old and extremely powerful spellbook from the time of dark elves and demons. Five scholars are dead, the magick council is running out of time and options, and the Arka is once again on the brink of war with the Siren dragon-riders.
“It falls to Farden the Written mage to keep the world from falling into chaos. Entangled in a web of lies and politics, Farden must recover the spellbook before an ancient enemy rises, even if it takes journeying halfway across icy Emaneska and back.
“In his fight for answers, Farden will unearth a secret that not only shakes the foundations of his world, but threaten the entire future of Emaneska. Sorcery, death, drugs and the deepest of betrayals await.
“Welcome to Emaneska.”
Trigger/Content warnings for the novel:
character death
blood
gore
violence
drug use
drug addiction
Representation in the novel:
N/A
⭐⭐ 2/5 stars
Before I begin, I want to give thanks to both Ben Galley, the author, and Dave from TheWriteReads, who organized this tour, for giving me the opportunity to read this book (in exchange for an honest review, of course)! If y’all are interested at learning more about Ben’s other books and himself, I’ll have more information after the review. With that being said, let’s get into it.
The Written follows Farden, a mage, when a group of mage scholars end up murdered and a mysterious book goes missing. Farden is sent out to look for said book and try to prevent whatever evil is showing up along the way. That’s about as much as I can say without getting in to too many spoilers.
First, the characters. I…didn’t really like them. While I thought the different races/creatures were a fun touch (vampires and werewolves and dragons and mages? sweet.), the characters themselves were forgettable or, in some cases, frustrating to read about. Take Farden, for example. He is the lovely protagonist that the reader has to be in the head of for the whole story (or, well, most of it since the story likes to randomly change POVs sometimes, but more on that later). He is a complete and utter asshole. The first interaction with another character the reader sees is him yelling at his maid for no good reason.
This is not a one-off thing: Farden is an ass to nearly everyone he comes into contact with, whether it be a merchant trying to sell him something or someone he has known for years. And in the beginning I thought, “Okay, ya know, I can deal with this. An asshole protagonist who learns to like and trust others throughout the novel. I can get behind that.” Except. That’s not what happens. There is little to no character development. He is the same person he was at the beginning of the novel when the reader meets him, except more pissed off. Granted, this is the first book in a series, so maybe he has development later. But I still would have expected something, and nothing really happened. In the latter half of the novel, when something happens, it got to the point where I was somewhat rooting for a character I definitely was not “supposed” to be rooting for.
He also has a drug addiction for some reason, and I want to say that I have never been personally addicted to drugs, or have even used one. I cannot say whether this is a good representation of addiction or not, and I will not try to. However, I do think that it was handled as a mere plot device, looking back after I finished the book. Overall, I thought Farden was a flat character with no redeeming qualities, and I really did not like being in his head for 95% of the novel.
As for the other characters…they were also flat. Most, if not all, of them just seemed to be cut-outs of tropes thrown together: the innocent maid; the mysterious vampire friend; the wise dragon. Which, okay, sometimes I do like trope-y characters. There are certain character traits that I love seeing done. But what I do not like is when those traits are the character’s entire personality, and that is what happened in The Written.
On top of that, here is something else that really grind me gears whilst reading: I can easily name ten characters that are human men (or were the non-human equivalent) that were either main characters or side characters. Ya know how many I can count that were human women (or the non-human equivalent)? Four. And, once again, none of them really had much depth to them. Granted, that was the fate of a lot of characters, but it was especially seen in the way the characters that were women were written, which was all stereotypical and filled with character tropes. I could not stand it.
When it comes to the plot, I was pretty ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about it. Overall, it had potential and seemed intriguing at first, but the characters killed most of my initial excitement for it. On top of that, the writing did not help in this particular case. A lot of things like the setting and Farden’s appearance were described in far too much detail, and for me, that really took away from the story itself. I think it could have also been edited a tad bit better. There are a lot of instances where Farden is described as simply “the mage,” long after the reader knows who he is.
Along with that, from what I could remember, the reader does not find out Fardan’s name until the third chapter or so, even though the story is supposed to be from his perspective. Parts of the story are also told from another character’s perspective, which would have been interesting if it was not simply explained away by a character talking about their evil master plans at the end of it. A lot of it just felt disjointed to me, and I kept being dragged out of the story because of things like that.
The battle/action scenes also seemed disjointed to me, and I feel that, a lot of the time, they were a stand-in for actual plot-/character-related things. This book is steeped in fight scenes, and, me being a much more character-driven reader, I did not like that much, either way.
Like I stated before, there were a few things I enjoyed in the novel (…even if I did skim that last quarter of it). I liked all the different races of creatures. Some people may not like it because it seems to mix genres between supernatural (vampires and werewolves) and fantasy (mages, elves, and dragons), but I thought it was an interesting point of world-building. It did seem lacking in parts, but again, it is the first book in a series, so it has room to be fleshed out. Unrelated, but I really love the cover. Whoever designed it did a wonderful job, and I think it is gorgeous. Those two tidbits were the sole recipients of the two stars.
Overall, I thought the characters were flat and the writing could have been better. As a result, the plot was not as fun as it could have been. However, kudos for world-building and the cover.
Bio: Ben Galley is an author of dark and epic fantasy books who currently hails from Victoria, Canada. Since publishing his debut The Written in 2010, Ben has released a range of award-winning fantasy novels, including the weird western Bloodrush and the epic standalone The Heart of Stone. He is also the author of the brand new Chasing Graves Trilogy.
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Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki; Harlan Ellison; Gabrielle de Cuir
Synopsis (from Goodreads):
“Andrew “Ender” Wiggin thinks he is playing computer-simulated war games at the Battle School; in fact, he is engaged in something far more desperate. Ender is the result of decades of genetic experimentation, Earth’s attempt to make the military genius that the planet needs in its all-out war with an alien enemy. Ender Wiggin is six years old when his training begins. He will grow up fast. Ender’s two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world-if the world survives. This, the author’s definitive edition, also includes an original postscript written and recorded by the author, in which he discusses the origins of the novel.”
Trigger/content warnings for the novel:
anti-Semitism
character death
[There may be more; I DNF’d at 64%]
Representation in the novel:
literally none that I could remember, so that’s cool /s
[There may be some; I DNF’d]
⭐⭐ 2/5 stars
Note: as the title of this review indicates, there may be small spoilers ahead.
Ender’s Game is one of the first sci-fi novels I have ever read, and… I am so disappointed. The beginning showed promise, but as I listened further, I found myself disengaging and being puzzled over, well, everything.
The first book in a saga, Ender’s Game is a science fiction novel about a young boy named Ender who is sent off to this battle school in order to eventually fight off the aliens that are supposedly bent on eradicating the human race. However, Ender is not just a regular boy — he was genetically modified with the hope that he would eventually be whisked away for just this purpose. The first book follows Ender from the tender age of six. And the reader then watches him grow as he lives for years in the battle school, coming up with new strategies in the “games” they continuously play, rising through the ranks, and puzzling the higher-ups. About halfway through the novel, when he is around ten or twelve, Ender’s siblings, Peter and Valentine, also get a spotlight as they become more entrenched in political games back on Earth through the use of pseudonyms.
So…for a book that sounds so interesting, why did I DNF it at 64%? It was not because of the narration: I really enjoyed the full cast, and I thought they all made it entertaining to listen to, before I just could not take the book itself anymore. Yeah, narration? Pretty dang good. One of the issues I had was with the characters. It came to a point where I could not easily identify who was who outside of Ender and his siblings. no one really jumped out at me and, as a result, they all blurred together.
Speaking of characters blurring together, all the major characters, except for one, is a man or boy. There is only one girl, Valentine, and she is Ender’s sister. I suppose there is also Ender’s friend who is a girl, but she is one of those characters where she is basically “one of the boys,” which… nah. I get that this was published back in the 1980s, but still. I can be annoyed that the two characters that are girls are either “just one of the boys” or is supposedly “too caring and emphatic” to be part of the battle school. It is like there are two stereotypes for girls to the extreme, and I am not a fan.
On top of that, most of the other characters were flat and only had one or two qualities to them. However, I will say that I found Ender’s thought process throughout the novel intriguing. I liked seeing that development. Althought I did not get through all of it, like I said, I still felt that there should have been some sort of growth or something outside of Ender’s thoughts that made me care for these characters. But alas, here we are.
Another issue (well, technically two, I suppose) was the plot and the pacing. the book sounds so interesting on paper, but the actual novel pales in comparison. While it was interesting in the beginning as the reader follows Ender through his beginning years at the battle school, it soon became tedious. Sure, he gains friends and a platoon to lead, but those interesting moments were overshadowed by so. many. battle. sequences.
By the third or fourth or fifth time, the reader understands that Ender is smart and good with strategy and that he is the underdog. They understand that, yes, the military is tedious and repetitive. There comes a time where the reader is hit over the head with all of this, repeatedly, and it stinks. It makes the book ungodly slow, and this is coming from someone who usually does not mind slower novels. I was over halfway done with the book, and what do I have to show for it? Close to nothing. And what I did have, I just did not like.
Most of it comes from me not being able to suspend disbelief. I get it, I do. I understand genetic engineering, war, making children part of war, and the combination of the three. I understand these things happen in our world today, and that it should only take a few extra steps to believe in what happens in Ender’s Game. But I cannot make those steps. Children being used for war? Okay. Children being genetically modified for war? Now we are getting into the sci-fi part, cool. Children having the mental capacity of grown-ass adults, making decisions as if they were adults, and essentially being adult characters but aged down to children in order to be shocking because, “oh no, children and war!”?
Nope, sorry, Card does not pull this off. Maybe if they were teenagers, but for most of the book, Ender is younger than 10. I do not buy it. You know what else I do not buy? Valentine and Peter’s side plot. Two young kids trying to, essentially, take over the world through the use of two blogging personas? Card does not try hard enough to make it seem believable for me. It just seems to pop up out of nowhere, right when Ender’s plot becomes unbearably boring. And then, voila, the reader has two extremely boring plots. Lovely. Who knows, maybe that particular sideplot somehow becomes 100x more exciting in the last 35% of the novel, but I slogged through enough.
So…yeah. Tl;dr: while the audiobook narration was wonderful (and the sole recipient of the two stars), I could not get behind every other lackluster part of this novel: the poor characterization, boring and repetitive plot, slow placing, gross lack of diversity, and the inability to allow me to believe most of the actual science fiction elements.
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“What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-viewed TEDx talk of the same name—by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.
“With humor and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century—one rooted in inclusion and awareness. She shines a light not only on blatant discrimination, but also the more insidious, institutional behaviors that marginalize women around the world, in order to help readers of all walks of life better understand the often masked realities of sexual politics. Throughout, she draws extensively on her own experiences—in the U.S., in her native Nigeria, and abroad—offering an artfully nuanced explanation of why the gender divide is harmful for women and men, alike.
“Argued in the same observant, witty and clever prose that has made Adichie a bestselling novelist, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman today—and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.”
Trigger/Content warnings for the novel:
cisnormativity
cissexism
heteronormativity
biological essentialism
Representation in the novel:
A Black woman is the author
⭐⭐ 2/5 stars
This was an impulse read: I saw it on the “Available Now” tab in OverDrive and thought, “Why not?” It was less than an hour, and the weather was crappy one day, and I have been meaning to read Adichi’s work for a while.
Well, everyone, the verdict is in, and uh. I wished I never read it.
If you want an extremely basic (and I really do mean basic) run-down of what feminism, misogyny, and sexism are, it would probably do the trick. Adichi goes into how men and women are treated differently, even from birth, and how it is not right. Good, right? I guess. You see, the only thing that is touched on is gender. Nothing else. That is an issue because feminism encompasses so much more than just gender. There is race, disability, class, religion, sexuality, and more. Obviously, not everyone can focus on absolutely everything, and they should not be expected to. That is burn out waiting to happen. But I would expect more in-depth analysis than simply, “men are treated better than women in society,” especially when this is an essay essentially persuading people to become/call themselves feminists. But yeah, not only is it extremely basic and does not recognize different experiences, but I already know that. What else?
On top of that, even the current analysis is not all that…good, I suppose. It uses cissexist and cisnormative language, talking about women being the only people to have children or become pregnant. It was also heteronormative: queer identities were not even mentioned. Non-binary people? Forget about them, I guess. On top of that, we have our friend, biological essentialism. I already touched on how women were said to be the only people capable of pregnancy, of course. But Adichi also touches on how men and women are inherently different and how that is “okay,” and that women still deserve to be treated better. Which…no. That is not true. Obviously, women should be treated better than they are currently, but men and women are not that different. And they do not inherently gain skills based on gender (and vice versa). That is just not how it works. From what I remember, Adichi brings this up. Multiple times.
I just did not like this essay. It was basic in its analysis, and the cissexism, cisnormativity, and lack of analysis regarding other identities just set me away from this. Do not recommend.
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“When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself.
“Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power. With only an ancient sword and the advice of an old storyteller for guidance, Eragon and the fledgling dragon must navigate the dangerous terrain and dark enemies of an Empire ruled by a king whose evil knows no bounds.
“Can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders? The fate of the Empire may rest in his hands….”
(known) Trigger/Content warnings for the novel:
character death
familial death
blood/injury
(known) Representation in the novel:
N/A
(Since I DNF’d, I don’t really know all of the possible trigger/content warnings or representation)
⭐⭐ 2/5 stars DNF @ 3 hours, 4 minutes out of 16 hours, 23 minutes
““The dead don’t talk. I don’t know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Meet Odd Thomas, the unassuming young hero of Dean Koontz’s dazzling New York Times bestseller, a gallant sentinel at the crossroads of life and death who offers up his heart in these pages and will forever capture yours.
“Sometimes the silent souls who seek Odd out want justice. Occasionally, their otherworldly tips help him prevent a crime. But this time, it’s different. A stranger comes to Pico Mundo, accompanied by a horde of hyena-like shades who herald an imminent catastrophe. Aided by his soulmate, Stormy Llewellyn, and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Odd will race against time to thwart the gathering evil. His account of these shattering hours, in which past and present, fate and destiny converge, is a testament by which to live — an unforgettable fable for our time destined to rank among Dean Koontz’s most enduring works.”
Trigger/Content warnings for the novel:
fat-shaming (throughout the novel)
ableism (particularly in regards to “psychopathy” and mental illness re: serial killers) (throughout the novel)
⭐⭐ 2/5 stars DNF @ 35% / 154 pages out of 446 pages
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