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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith My rating: 2 of 5 stars An original idea in the mash-up genre of paranormal alternative history from the man who created the category, but I’m not convinced this is a great novel, or even a compelling read. It’s more of a sensationalist fad past its prime and [...]
The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross My rating: 2 of 5 stars It was an interesting premise to be sure, but poorly executed. It had a fast-paced start but it was not enough to keep my interest once I hit the middle. There was little suspense and the mystery was solved too [...]
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin My rating: 3 of 5 stars The bottom line: I enjoyed reading this book, but I had a few issues with it. I got what I expected and was entertained. I opened this book knowing it was a Young Adult Paranormal and that’s what I got. Some [...]
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a nice light paranormal mystery that reads fast and has a reasonable amout of mystery and, yes, romance. I have to admit that at the beginning of this book I did not like it at all, though my opinion changed [...]
The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder My rating: 3 of 5 stars There were things about this book that I loved fantastically, but on the whole it was a slower read than I would like. It seemed to be all that was missing from The Girl in the Steel Corset, however [...]
Numbers by Rachel Ward My rating: 1 of 5 stars I really hated this book. I expected a typical neat and tidy ya paranormal thriller so when the book began and we were reading through the eyes of a gritty street-wise teen with a tragic past who rarely goes to school and has no friends [...]
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman My rating: 3 of 5 stars I find this book hard to rate. It is an inarguably well-written and creative book, full of interesting characters and imaginative mini-adventures. It has a touch of the macabre about it which I enjoy, even in children’s books because it explores an entirely [...]
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess My rating: 2 of 5 stars I can appreciate that this is a cleverly written treatise on the dangers of governmental control and the folly of an organic thing (like a person, or an orange) being programmed like a machine (or a clockwork engine), but I had a hard [...]
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