Tome Thursday: City of the Beasts

 

Hello everyone!

 

Welcome back to the book side of this blog, where we pick and choose books that either suit a niche to a T, or we strike out into the wild and try to figure out what kind of chaos we just walked into.

 

Tonight's choice is an OLD one.

 

Like, at least twenty years old.

 

I first read these books when I was about the age of the protagonists within them, so I suppose I definitely felt a certain way about the story as a whole, but now that I'm older, I wanted to sit down and have another go at them to see just what, if anything, I might see differently.

 

... Also, I just wanted to go back into some awesome writing.

 

Without further ado, let's just hop straight into it, shall we?

 

Make sure you've got your passport and you've gotten all your shots, because we're headed down the Amazon river and meeting some very, very indigenous peoples.

 

Then we're swerving right into City of the Beasts.

 

Tome Thursday: Walk the Plank

 

Hello everyone!

 

So just as I prepare to head to the seaside for vacation, I always make sure that the books I have on my reading list get cleared off before I do so, seeing as I don't feel like dragging all of them with me when I don't have to.

 

This is one of them!

 

It's the third in the batch of books I nabbed off BookSirens that one time, and I have to say that it was incredibly enjoyable, just as the first two.

 

But then I mean, pirates, right?

 

Nothing beats pirates in the middle of summer!

 

Especially when paired up with vampires for some reason or another ... that kind of thing sounds completely absurd when you think about it, but when you actually want to read it, you find it works out, somehow.

 

I don't know how, but it does. Marilyn Barr's Walk the Plank is up next, and hopefully you enjoy it.

 

Tome Thursday: The Devil's Cut

Hello everyone!

It's book review time again this week, but seriously, I need to take two seconds to focus after seeing the Shadowhunters summer finale trailer.

Like, OMG.

I mean I've read the first trilogy, obviously - I'm working on the second one - but that doesn't mean that what I see Freeform putting out isn't amazing. They've taken a step beyond what Cassandra Clare's written and made it their own, and the actors look like they might have pushed all the boundaries, ever.

I can't wait for next Monday!

But, ahem.

It's time for the actual review to begin, and considering it's August, suffice to say there is no other book to talk about but J. R. Ward's Devil's Cut, the conclusion of her Bourbon Kings trilogy.