Tag: Creative
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Never Again
A hot mess of a book I deeply regret finishing. Featuring inconsistent characters, an encyclopedia’s worth of forgotten setups, and a positively offensive ending. Read at your peril.
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The Blog is NOT Dead
Some people say the blog is dead. An impassioned argument for why this is not true and what the act of maintaining a blog does for your writing.
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Staying in Your Lane
The variance of this collection, and of Harris’ work, got me thinking about the limitations or boxes authors find themselves getting pushed into.
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The Flying Temeraire
Basically the best dragon-fantasy ever written. Imagine a dragon with a crew of airmen fighting in the Napoleoic wars. And if that doesn’t interest you I don’t know what will.
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Unconditional Love
Oleander by Scarlett Drake This book was such an unexpected pleasure. It was written as a modern retelling of Great Expectations (Charles Dickens). I am afraid I have to admit to having never read GE (or in fact any Dickens novels) so I can’t really tell you how well it did as an adaptation. But…
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Losing the Plot
Trilogy crashes and burns in a mess where the characters have no consistency, the plot goes nowhere, and 50% of the words are internal narration. What a waste.
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Subversions and Systemic Inequality
This book took the magic-school premise, walked it over to the dark side and then dialled it up to 11. Its a book about systemic inequality, racism, and being f*** angry at the world.
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The Wrong Vehicle
An author more interested in forwarding a political agenda than delivering a good story.
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Who’s story is it?
A story with excellent vibes and gut-renching betrayals of trauma, but with no structure it limps to a listless halt.
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Orgasmic Descriptions of Food
This book had so much potential. An engaging misanthrope protagonist, a delightfully anachronistic world, an intriguing premise. And it wasted it all with a plot that went nowhere.