So, someone on TikTok says that we need lesbian werewolves. Yes, please?
I have a book for you!
Menopausal werewolves, along with a sweet bi awakening/the first flush of sapphic romance. ❤️
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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 Business for Authors: 4 stars
Katherine Villyard reviewed Silver Moon by Catherine Lundoff (Wolves of Wolf's Point, #1)
Becca Thornton, divorced, middle-aged and trying to embrace a quiet life, discovers that there are …
Review of 'Silver Moon' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Katherine Villyard rated Dictate Your Book: 4 stars
Monica Leonelle: Dictate Your Book (2015, Spaulding House Publishing)
Dictate Your Book by Monica Leonelle (Growth Hacking For Storytellers Book 3)
Katherine Villyard reviewed Pomegranate Gate by Ariel Kaplan
Ariel Kaplan’s The Pomegranate Gate is the lyrical first installment of the Mirror Realm Cycle, …
Review of 'Pomegranate Gate' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
4.5 stars.
I loved everything about it except WHAT A CLIFFHANGER at the end! I’ll look for and buy the sequel, but…
Katherine Villyard reviewed Sales Copy Unleashed by Robert Ryan
Review of 'Sales Copy Unleashed' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I like the actual information in the book, but found it hard to wade through all the “ONLY I CAN TELL YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW!!!!!!!” hyperbole. Ugh.
Maybe he shouldn’t have written THE ACTUAL BOOK in sales copy.
Katherine Villyard reviewed Blood Herring by Tim Marquitz
Review of 'Blood Herring' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
3.5 stars. Nothing really wrong with it, but gritty police procedurals aren’t my jam. I also really disliked the male lead—he was too angry for me. It’s probably just not to my personal taste.
Katherine Villyard rated Vampire Weekend: 5 stars
Review of 'The Oldest Living Vampire Tells All: Revised and Expanded (The Oldest Living Vampire Saga Book 1)' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
This is generally a quick and fun read. Marked as three stars for two reasons:
1. The plot is kind of… squishy? The inciting incident feels like it comes quite late, and generally it feels more like a character study than a plot. This isn’t necessarily bad! But… it slowed the story down.
2. Lines like:
“But it is much circumscribed now by your phallus-mutilating, Hell-condemning desert god.”
“I think our sexual practices would probably scandalize you modern people, with your tyrannical, pleasure-hating desert god and your unnatural embarrassment of your genitals.”
“Jews worship an angry Sky God while Christians worship a God who is Love and Kindness!” is an antisemitic trope, so these lines made me uncomfortable as a Jewish woman.
That said, I did appreciate that the author’s Cro Magnon society was egalitarian and sexually liberated. I feel like the retrogressive gender politics cave people trope is kind …
This is generally a quick and fun read. Marked as three stars for two reasons:
1. The plot is kind of… squishy? The inciting incident feels like it comes quite late, and generally it feels more like a character study than a plot. This isn’t necessarily bad! But… it slowed the story down.
2. Lines like:
“But it is much circumscribed now by your phallus-mutilating, Hell-condemning desert god.”
“I think our sexual practices would probably scandalize you modern people, with your tyrannical, pleasure-hating desert god and your unnatural embarrassment of your genitals.”
“Jews worship an angry Sky God while Christians worship a God who is Love and Kindness!” is an antisemitic trope, so these lines made me uncomfortable as a Jewish woman.
That said, I did appreciate that the author’s Cro Magnon society was egalitarian and sexually liberated. I feel like the retrogressive gender politics cave people trope is kind of a sexist fantasy about Why Women Need Men (ugh). I mean, I have no problems with a bi poly utopia, bring it!
So… mostly fun, but not perfect.
Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work …
Review of 'How High We Go in the Dark' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Is it a novel? Is it a short story collection? Does it matter?
It’s a book about a pandemic, and grief, and love. It’s really hard to read in places because the author is unflinching and makes you look, too. But the things people do for love in this…
I don’t know what what to say. It’s morbid and tender and harsh, and there’s a lot of death in it.
Katherine Villyard rated On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft: 5 stars
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
"Long live the King," hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Part memoir, part masterclass by …
Katherine Villyard rated System Collapse: 5 stars
System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back.
Following the events …
Katherine Villyard reviewed The Tale of the Body Thief (Rice, Anne, Vampire Chronicles, Bk. 4.) by Anne Rice (Vampire Chronicles (4))
Returning to Lestat as the main character, the fourth in the Vampire Chronicles series finds …
Review of 'The Tale of the Body Thief (Rice, Anne, Vampire Chronicles, Bk. 4.)' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
So… this is very Ricean. Our hero Lestat has the chance to be human again. He takes it, of course, despite believing that no one could refuse the dark gift. He thinks it would be temporary, but this is clearly wishful thinking in the face of his unreliable body thief. He’s also haunted by dreams of Claudia.
Trapped in this mortal body, Lestat is horrified by peeing and pooping and illness and immediately asks Louis to turn him back.
Louis refuses, of course, because he is Louis and would only agree to the bargain if it were for keeps. ;) He would never take Lestat’s new humanity away and curse him to the dark.
Much pondering of vampire nature. Much pondering of God, or lack of same. An affair with a nun, who has lost her faith but not her desire to serve goodness. Much Rice, thematically.
And Lestat finally …
So… this is very Ricean. Our hero Lestat has the chance to be human again. He takes it, of course, despite believing that no one could refuse the dark gift. He thinks it would be temporary, but this is clearly wishful thinking in the face of his unreliable body thief. He’s also haunted by dreams of Claudia.
Trapped in this mortal body, Lestat is horrified by peeing and pooping and illness and immediately asks Louis to turn him back.
Louis refuses, of course, because he is Louis and would only agree to the bargain if it were for keeps. ;) He would never take Lestat’s new humanity away and curse him to the dark.
Much pondering of vampire nature. Much pondering of God, or lack of same. An affair with a nun, who has lost her faith but not her desire to serve goodness. Much Rice, thematically.
And Lestat finally gets to choose.
If you like meandering meditations on good and evil, you’ll like this. And if you don’t, why are you reading Anne Rice? ;)
Katherine Villyard reviewed Sun and the Void by Gabriela Romero Lacruz
Review of 'Sun and the Void' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I had mixed feelings about this one. On the one hand, I loved the South American vibes and the Precolumbian mythology vibes and the sapphic elements!
On the other hand, I’m not sure I can get past all the infants.
I’m not asking for NobleBright uplifting HappyPunk here, but there’s morally gray and there’s “I’m not sure I can forgive you and enjoy your happy ending.”
Katherine Villyard reviewed Compulsory by Martha Wells
While trying to watch episode 44 of The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon, Murderbot …
Review of 'Compulsory' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I liked it, but also it’s so short that I don’t know what to say about it. What’s the shortest possible Murderbot story?