by Melissa Marr
Chloe walks into a bar and blows five years of sobriety, but when she wakes in the morning she finds herself in an unfamiliar world in a group of people from all different times and places, and none of them really understands how they got there, or if there’s a way home. The Arrivals is basically a ...
I cannot believe this is from the same author who wrote the Wicked Lovely series which I loved so much and have reread countless times.This book lacks what is the skeleton of any story: a plotline. Only at about the midway point of the book do things actually start to happen. Before then the book is...
New features this year: -a return to judging which are the “best” (why not? I’m no more unqualified than anyone else.) -bonus features of Best of 1813 and Best of 2113. -the author’s original title for their book, if I was able to discover it. -I will disclose when my opinions are influenced by nepo...
Fun book, with a comic-book kind of feel.Random people from different time periods have suddenly awakened in an alternate world with an Old West/Post-apocalyptic/Fantasy flavor. Some of these ‘Arrivals’ have banded together against a local honcho who seems rather villainous – and may have something ...
*Genre* Western, Fantasy, Paranormal, Adult*Rating* 3-3.5*First Thoughts*The synopsis of this book is kind of misleading in that it makes it sound as though Chloe is the main character and thus the story teller of The Arrivals. Which, in fact, is not true at all. I would say that Jack and his sister...
Ugggggg.
I really don’t like to sit here and say “How dare an author try to overstep their genres and try to write something different!”; I really don’t. I like it when authors I like do diversify and bring something different, even if it’s just a matter of how old the target audience is. Case in point: Meli...
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