Welcome to Vampire Apocalypse 2.0, Now With More Boring Road Trip

April 29, 2014 by Erin

The Forever Song (Blood of Eden #3), Julie Kagawa Release date: April 15, 2014 Rating: ★★☆☆☆ (Spoilers ahead for the first two books in the series, The Immortal Rules and The Eternity Cure.) Well, this young adult vampire-filled dystopian trilogy started out with excitement and originality, and ended up rather dull. The story picks up almost right where book two left off – sane vampires Allie, Kanin and Jackal are hunting down crazy vampire Sarren to prevent him from releasing […]

Categories: Book Review • Tags: Julie Kagawa, new books, vampires, YA

Game of Thrones, Season 4, Ep. 4 – Oathkeeper

April 28, 2014 by Erin

Hello everyone! Caitlin is on vacation so I’m filling in for her Game of Thrones weekly episode recap. Come back next week to find out some of Caitlin’s own thoughts on this episode, in which things finally start to progress toward some action! Last week Caitlin predicted that this week would probably have a bit more setup before things with Tyrion’s trial and what happens up at the wall and everything else really start moving, and she was totally right, but […]

Categories: Adaptations • Tags: fantasy, game of thrones, game of thrones episode review, HBO, Song of Ice and Fire

“You are not going out and getting jiggy with some boy. I don’t care how dope his ride is” – Film Fest Friday

April 25, 2014 by Caitlin

Introducing: Film Fest Fridays! Here we’ll bring you a weekly cinematic adaptation of a book and discuss the finer points of “Is the book really better than the movie?”  It’s William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday week, and we thought we’d kick it off with something fun – Shakepearean adaptations. Sure, these are technically re-worked versions of something that is meant to be seen and not read, but Shakes is celebrated as a writer – can’t we appreciate his prose reworked into […]

Categories: Adaptations • Tags: Film Fest Friday, movies, Shakespeare, teenage romance

Recommended Reading: Melina Marchetta

April 23, 2014 by Erin

Melina Marchetta is an Australian young adult author who consistently amazes me with the quality and loveliness of her writing. In a genre crowded with teen narration that underwhelms if not tied to an exciting and overblown plot, Marchetta creates narratives that stand out for their lyrical writing, strongly developed characters and authentic relationships of all kinds. If you are a fan of young adult fiction and you haven’t read Melina Marchetta, you need to check out her backlist. Right […]

Categories: Book Review • Tags: aussies, authors, contemporary YA, melina marchetta, recommended reading, young adult

Game of Thrones, Season 4, Ep. 3 – Breaker of Chains

April 22, 2014 by Caitlin

Sorry everyone, I was on vacation and didn’t get a chance to do my regular Sunday night viewing. Let’s hack away at this one even though it’s two days late, shall we? (Insert standard spoiler warning). First things first (I can’t even go in order here) – this was one of the more upsetting deviations I have seen from the book. This is the second time we have had the show writers throw a rape at us that wasn’t in […]

Categories: Adaptations • Tags: game of thrones, game of thrones episode review, HBO, Song of Ice and Fire, Television

Werewolf Gatorade – Literary Happy Hour

April 17, 2014 by Caitlin

What to read:Pleasure of a Dark Prince, Kresley Cole What to drink: Dewar’s Scotch Whiskey, Stone Ruination IPA “The demons took the opportunity to take a timeout and drink demon brew. The only bad thing about playing with demons – one of the few species in the Lore that could contend with the Lykae in a physical contest – was their continual ‘brew breaks.’ Only seemed fair that Garreth and his kinsman shoot copious amounts of whiskey to mitigate their […]

Categories: Happy Hour • Tags: fantasy, paranormal romance, romance novel, werewolves

Top 5 Upcoming Romance Series Continuations

April 14, 2014 by Erin

Mark your calendars and prepare your bosoms for some serious heaving – we’ve got new romance novels coming our way! Here’s a list of upcoming continued series releases that have my bookish heart all aflutter. The Kraken King (The Iron Seas #4), Meljean Brook Genre: Steampunk Release date: April 15 Why I’m excited: I can’t describe this series any better than Ms. Brook herself does on her website: “The Iron Seas series combines nanotech and pirates with a gritty, gaslit […]

Categories: Best Of • Tags: rogues cads and scoundrels, romance, romance novel, sexy times, steampunk, top 5

Game of Thrones, Season 4, Ep. 2 – “The Lion and the Rose”

April 13, 2014 by Caitlin

WARNING: Super massive spoilers below!! Whelp. THAT’S done. I am a little surprised at the progression of episode two – that was almost anti-climactic, no? We at least get to feel some satisfaction after seasons of torment, and are promised some deliciously thick plot to come. Here’s a recap of this week’s events. The North Reek, Reek, it rhymes with sneak! Finally, we get a taste of what’s in store for Theon Greyjoy (aka, Reek). It’s not all about the […]

Categories: Adaptations • Tags: game of thrones, game of thrones episode review, HBO, Song of Ice and Fire, Television

“Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt” – Bingo Update

April 10, 2014 by Caitlin

Bingo Square: Read something I’ve been putting off Book: Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Embarrassingly, I do not read a lot of literary fiction. If it’s not a graphic novel or an adaptation of a classic fairy tale, my attention span is just pathetic. That does not mean, in my own defense, that I do not appreciate and love the written word. Sure, I’m lazy sometimes, but that doesn’t mean I don’t linger lovingly over a perfect metaphor. Slaughterhouse-Five was put off by […]

Categories: Book Review • Tags: classics, fiction, Kurt Vonnegut, literary bingo, literary fiction