Book Review: Spelunking Through Hell, Seanan McGuire

Book Review: Spelunking Through Hell: A Visitor’s Guide to the Underworld, InCryptid Book 11, Seanan McGuire Fantasy Series: Spelunking Through Hell: A Visitor’s Guide to the Underworld, InCryptid Book 11, Seanan McGuire   Alice Healy lost her husband decades ago. Not to death, nor through divorce or carelessly misplacing him. Thomas Price made a deal with the […]

Book Review: When Sorrows Come, Seanan McGuire

Book Review: When Sorrows Come, October Daye Book 15, Seanan McGuire Fantasy: When Sorrows Come, October Daye Book 15, Seanan McGuire   Happiness can be elusive for some of us. Depending on our level of damage, we may feel guilty about being happy. We don’t deserve happiness. We dread feeling happy because we just know […]

Book Review: Where the Drowned Girls Go, Seanan McGuire

Book Review: Where the Drowned Girls Go, The Wayward Children Series Book 7, Seanan McGuire   Fantasy: Where the Drowned Girls Go, The Wayward Children Series Book 7, Seanan McGuire   Cora belongs with the sirens, living under the sea in her watery world. She is, however, of this earth and came back unexpectedly and unwillingly. Finding […]

Book Review: Across the Green Grass Fields, Seanan McGuire

Book Review: Across the Green Grass Fields, Wayward Children Book 6, Seanan McGuire   Fantasy: Across the Green Grass Fields, Wayward Children Book 6, Seanan McGuire   Regan is a normal little girl. That is what she desperately wants to be. Normal is defined unyieldingly by her friend Lauren. Normal little girls don’t play with snakes — […]

Book Review: Calculated Risks, Seanan McGuire

Book Review: Calculated Risks, InCryptid Book 10, Seanan McGuire   Fantasy: Calculated Risks, InCryptid Book 10, Seanan McGuire   There are a number of obscure and overlooked holidays in America and the rest of the world. Somehow on January 13 I failed to properly observe National Rubber Ducky Day. I am writing this review on Dr. Seuss […]

Book Review: Imaginary Numbers, Seanan McGuire

Book Review: Imaginary Numbers, InCryptid Book 9, Seanan McGuire Fantasy: Imaginary Numbers, Seanan McGuire   It is a testimony to both the volume and quantity of books Seanan McGuire writes that I am only now featuring one from her InCrypted series. Nominated for the Hugo Award for best series, InCryptid tells the stories of a […]

Book Review: Come Tumbling Down, Seanan McGuire

Book Review: Come Tumbling Down, Wayward Children Book 5, Seanan McGuire   Fantasy: Come Tumbling Down, Wayward Children Book 5, Seanan McGuire   We’ve met Jack and Jill before in the Wayward Children series. Born to parents who tried to mold their daughters into their ideal of the “perfect” child, they escaped by finding a doorway to […]

Book Review: In an Absent Dream, Seanan McGuire

Book Review: In an Absent Dream, Wayward Children Book 4, Seanan McGuire Fantasy: In an Absent Dream, Wayward Children Book 4, Seanan McGuire   Katherine Lundy is a quiet child who likes knowing the rules and knowing what is expected from her. That is not to say, though, that the rules and expectations of this […]