Worth it for chapter four.
(See previous reviews of the series for caveats.)
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Katherine’s parents met singing opera and started taking her to choir practice when she was six weeks old. She attended four elementary schools and four high schools before getting master’s degrees in art and library science. So naturally she works in IT, abusing SQL Server for fun and profit. When she’s not working or writing, she’s probably playing the Sims or spoiling cats. Her greatest ambition is to rule the world.
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Katherine Villyard rated Masquerade in Lodi: 4 stars
Katherine Villyard rated The Physicians of Vilnoc: 5 stars
Katherine Villyard rated The Gilda Stories: 5 stars
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
A very unusual vampire story. A young Black woman escapes being enslaved and ends up becoming a vampire. Takes place …
Katherine Villyard rated Get Your Book Selling Wide: 4 stars
Review of 'Get Your Book Selling with Cross-Promotion' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Katherine Villyard reviewed Blood and Gold (Anne Rice) by Anne Rice (Vampire Chronicles (7))
The latest mesmerising and exotic Vampire Chronicle from the mistress of the genre - a …
Review of 'Blood and Gold (Anne Rice)' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I………
Three and a half stars for enjoying it, but I feel like Anne abandoned plot in favor of the novel-length character sketch after book four. It feels a lot like a pantsed novel—no shade, I myself am a Pantser. The plot feels weak to me and then peters out.
Also, I quite liked Marius in The Vampire Lestat and The Vampire Armand, but this guy is prone to melodramatic snitfits. I didn’t like him as much in this one; I feel like he never gets over being a Roman Patrician who wants everyone to obey him. Also, after several novels where I felt Marius was the adult supervision of the vampire world, I felt let down by his childish arguments with the women in his life. In previous novels I had him pegged as a dom, but this guy? No way he should engage in SSC/RACK. In short, he …
I………
Three and a half stars for enjoying it, but I feel like Anne abandoned plot in favor of the novel-length character sketch after book four. It feels a lot like a pantsed novel—no shade, I myself am a Pantser. The plot feels weak to me and then peters out.
Also, I quite liked Marius in The Vampire Lestat and The Vampire Armand, but this guy is prone to melodramatic snitfits. I didn’t like him as much in this one; I feel like he never gets over being a Roman Patrician who wants everyone to obey him. Also, after several novels where I felt Marius was the adult supervision of the vampire world, I felt let down by his childish arguments with the women in his life. In previous novels I had him pegged as a dom, but this guy? No way he should engage in SSC/RACK. In short, he didn’t feel consistent with the guy we saw in previous novels.
But somehow I still enjoyed this book.
Katherine Villyard rated Get Your Book Selling Wide - Large Print: 4 stars
Katherine Villyard rated Get Your Book Selling on Amazon - Large Print: 4 stars
Katherine Villyard rated Bad Bitch Coloring Book: 5 stars
Katherine Villyard rated Translation State: 5 stars
Translation State by Ann Leckie
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across …
The Vampire Armand (Rice, Anne, Vampire Chronicles.) by Anne Rice (Vampire Chronicles (6))
The previous volume of the Vampire Chronicles, Memnoch the Devil, was called 'a modern Paradise Lost' by the Washington Post. …
Katherine Villyard reviewed Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.
Sure, there …
Review of 'Starter Villain' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
It’s funny. It has typing cats and swearing dolphins. What’s not to like?
Katherine Villyard rated Court of Wanderers: 4 stars
Katherine Villyard reviewed Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker
Review of 'Hidden Palace' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I mean, I continue to love magical creatures in historical New York.
I just… the first book was very hopeful, and this one feels pessimistic… to the point where I considered googling whether Wecker had divorced in the intervening years. Perhaps it’s the fear of writing a happy couple together; the conventional wisdom that the only conflict in a love story can be “will they or won’t they?”, and once you answer that the story can only be over.
I liked seeing Sophia Winston explore the Middle East. I liked seeing Chava and Ahmad face shadow versions of themselves. I just wish they had stayed together, and that the ending was less unhappy.