Julia
Added to listWhole Earthwith 36 books.
Added to listNon Fictionwith 53 books.
Collective Liberation Book Club pick for May. I liked this! Not as gobsmacking as some of the other things we read (like the powerful punch of Norma Wong earlier this year), but self-reflective, meditative, and grounding. I think my favorite part was a relatively small detail about how the world is also interacting back with us, and climate crises may expand the Overton window very rapidly, and how we might rise to meet those crises/that expansion.
Collective Liberation Book Club pick for May. I liked this! Not as gobsmacking as some of the other things we read (like the powerful punch of Norma Wong earlier this year), but self-reflective, meditative, and grounding. I think my favorite part was a relatively small detail about how the world is also interacting back with us, and climate crises may expand the Overton window very rapidly, and how we might rise to meet those crises/that expansion.
Added to listSci Fi & Fantasywith 25 books.
Added to listPure Unadulterated Trashwith 79 books.
Oh dear. In a "spicy pepper book club" with 3 friends, and none of us loved this. Too much telling, not showing, and the characters were a bit wooden. I liked the concept of the world, though!
Oh dear. In a "spicy pepper book club" with 3 friends, and none of us loved this. Too much telling, not showing, and the characters were a bit wooden. I liked the concept of the world, though!
Added to listPure Unadulterated Trashwith 78 books.
Added to listPart Of A Setwith 65 books.
Added to listNovelswith 180 books.
This series is growing on me? I can't tell if I'm desensitized or it was slightly less gore-y, but that part felt more tolerable. Spicy was also spicier in some fun and creative ways. I still really don't buy the premise that vigilante murders are different than "regular" murders, but overall, I'll finish the series.
This series is growing on me? I can't tell if I'm desensitized or it was slightly less gore-y, but that part felt more tolerable. Spicy was also spicier in some fun and creative ways. I still really don't buy the premise that vigilante murders are different than "regular" murders, but overall, I'll finish the series.
My star rating here is ambivalent, not average. This moved at a really nice clip, was very funny, and I liked the romance! The parts I didn't like were that it really was just shy of too gory for me, and even if they're motivated by vigilante justice, I'm still not on board with serial killers. I'll still finish this series, though, so I wasn't excessively bothered.
My star rating here is ambivalent, not average. This moved at a really nice clip, was very funny, and I liked the romance! The parts I didn't like were that it really was just shy of too gory for me, and even if they're motivated by vigilante justice, I'm still not on board with serial killers. I'll still finish this series, though, so I wasn't excessively bothered.
I basically underlined this whole book, therefore defeating the purpose of underlining. Wong just transmits so much wisdom that hit me at the perfect time. The trick will be being brave enough to keep jumping into the slipstream, as she puts it. What a gift this book is to the world.
I basically underlined this whole book, therefore defeating the purpose of underlining. Wong just transmits so much wisdom that hit me at the perfect time. The trick will be being brave enough to keep jumping into the slipstream, as she puts it. What a gift this book is to the world.
Added to listSci Fi & Fantasywith 24 books.
Added to listPart Of A Setwith 64 books.
Okay, I am stating in writing for perpetuity that I need to focus my energy on COMPLETE D series. It's not that I can't stand a cliffhanger, but it's gotta be a GOOD cliffhanger, and my primary beef with Onyx Storm (other than it's hard to maintain same spice intensity when the protagonists are in a committed long-term relationship hah) is I can't tell if there were lots of loose ends that we're going to get AMAZING plot cohesion on in the next books, or if there are loose ends because the editing should be tighter.
Okay, I am stating in writing for perpetuity that I need to focus my energy on COMPLETE D series. It's not that I can't stand a cliffhanger, but it's gotta be a GOOD cliffhanger, and my primary beef with Onyx Storm (other than it's hard to maintain same spice intensity when the protagonists are in a committed long-term relationship hah) is I can't tell if there were lots of loose ends that we're going to get AMAZING plot cohesion on in the next books, or if there are loose ends because the editing should be tighter.
Oh, interesting. This is by far Hazelwood's kinkiest, and I liked the collegiate/Olympic athletic subplot. It's not as explicitly feminist as her STEMinist ones, but that's just an observation, not a criticism.
Oh, interesting. This is by far Hazelwood's kinkiest, and I liked the collegiate/Olympic athletic subplot. It's not as explicitly feminist as her STEMinist ones, but that's just an observation, not a criticism.
WOW. Read this for book club, and was gobsmacked. Benally's writing is more poetry than prose, and he is idealistic, uncompromising, visionary, and incendiary. This was so powerful and I'll return to it frequently.
WOW. Read this for book club, and was gobsmacked. Benally's writing is more poetry than prose, and he is idealistic, uncompromising, visionary, and incendiary. This was so powerful and I'll return to it frequently.
Good, but not my favorite Tibbert. Should have seen that coming - I'm not a monarchist! Neither is she, but it's obviously central to the plot in a way that irked me more than I anticipated. Still, it's sexy like Tibbert always is, and her most adventurous in terms of dynamics (e.g., power exchange).
Good, but not my favorite Tibbert. Should have seen that coming - I'm not a monarchist! Neither is she, but it's obviously central to the plot in a way that irked me more than I anticipated. Still, it's sexy like Tibbert always is, and her most adventurous in terms of dynamics (e.g., power exchange).