Ever read a book so good that you start writing the review in your head before you even finish the book? For me this was one of those books. I've been hooked on Caitlin R Kiernan ever since I did a search on Amazon for lesbian urban fantasy and her name came up with Silk, Murder of Angels and The Re...
If you pick this up thinking it’s a charming fantasy or even a gothic horror novel you may be disappointed. Like Kiernan’s The Red Tree (which I loved), it has eerie leanings but at its core it’s more an intimate and unflinching look at a person’s struggle with insanity. It revisits several of the s...
I've been putting off posting a review for this book until after my book club meeting - this was one I needed to talk about. It is rare that I'm so conflicted about how I feel about a book, as I am with this one. After some excellent discussion I think I've finally gotten a handle on why I'm so ambi...
I'll admit it: I don't understand this book. I couldn't tell who was speaking sometimes, I don't understand how the Evas fit (or their relationship to Imp), and I don't understand even whether there WAS a narrative arc, let alone whether it was good. The nonlinear structure didn't help in this regar...
Got halfway through. This is a book for literary specialists I suppose. There was barely a plot and it was so overemphasized that the narrator was unreliable that I didn't get hooked by anything that was written. It is definitely not scary, not horror, not creepy, etc.This book received the Tiptree ...
http://bibliosanctum.blogspot.com/2013/07/book-review-drowning-girl-by-caitlin-r.htmlThis novel was our book club's choice for July, the theme of which was "Nominees for the 2012 Nebula Awards". Though this book hadn't been on my to-read list, nor had I a clue what it was going to be about, I'd look...
This is actually the book that made me decide to write this post and create a DNF shelf on Goodreads. A recent Nebula Awards nominee, it won the vote as this month's read for my bookclub. While I like the concept of a haunted schizophrenic girl and the way art and fairy tales play so heavily in her ...
My god, nothing but endless yammering. Too much jibber-jabber, not enough substance. I understand that the narrator is mentally ill. But that's not a good device if it annoys the reader.
The quirkiness of this story grabbed my interest right from the start. About 20% into the book it started to get on my nerves. After about 50% or so, I started to hate it. There may be a bit of genius in here somewhere that I lack the intelligence or creativity to appreciate but in any case I was...
The Drowning Girl is a difficult book to characterize. Baldly, it’s the story of India Morgan Phelps (aka “Imp”), a highly functional schizophrenic whose life is turned upside down by the appearance of Eva Canning, who may or may not be a ghost, a werewolf, a mermaid or a stalker. If you don’t like ...
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