Author: Kristen
What Do I Read Next?

As usual, I’m indecisive so help me decide what to read next by voting on the poll to the right. I’ll read whichever book wins when I’m done with The Gaslight Dogs and leave the poll up until I’m finished with it. And I just might run another poll when I need to choose one of the books I bought to read after that because I’m really torn about whether to read the new Carol Berg, the new Robin Hobb, […]

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms Review of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is a debut novel by N. K. Jemisin, who was recently nominated for the Nebula Award for her short story “Non-Zero Probabilities.” Even though it’s the first book in The Inheritance Trilogy, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is a complete story with a satisfying conclusion. The next two books in the series each focus on a different main character than the first one. According to Jemisin’s website, the second book The Broken Kingdoms will be released in […]

The Leaning Pile of Books

It was actually leaning this week since I received 7 review copies and stacked them with the need-to-review pile as they came in (which is now at 5 since I read both The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner and Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews this week – I have started on The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms review and am hoping to finish it soon). These were all unexpected review copies but there are some I will definitely be reading because they […]

February Reading

February was a decent reading month since I read some really good books and brought the yearly total up to 10. Unfortunately I got sick this week and haven’t been able to think straight (ugh – and it’s only worse today) so I didn’t get to finish getting caught up on reviews after I started to… There’s always this weekend. The books of February were: 6. Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold7. Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs8. The Hundred Thousand […]