You guys! I’m so sorry. So much for being a frequent updater! I’ve started a new job and it’s been CRAZY!!! Which means that I haven’t done much in the way of reading a physical book but I WAS able to finish an audio book! Woo!

It’s funny. I started this as a hardcover and I was bored. To. Death. So I stopped reading it. Finally went back to Club Lib (AKA the library) and decided to do the audio book version. Lo and behold, it’s being narrated by ROSARIO DAWSON (!!!!!) and so of COURSE I grab it! Let me tell you: SO. MUCH. BETTER!!!!! Rosario NAILS every voice and inflection and does so good with all the different accents. I’m also a HUGE HUGE fan of hers so I was ecstatic to listen to her read this. I would sometimes just sit in the car JUST to listen because she made it that much better!

So. The book. It was really good! I really like The Martian (the movie, I actually didn’t read the book, but I heard it was really close so that was nice) and so I figured I would like this one too. Like I said, in the beginning I was very bored. I couldn’t stand Jazz and the all consuming slowness of the plot. But once everything really got going, man, did it snowball quick.

I have more of this review here and you can check out the book’s synopsis here. I definitely recommend it to those who love sci-fi and bad ass women.

Ok so this book. This book. Where do I even start? I think my favorite thing about this book was my little *gasp* every time a new character was introduced. Mary Jekyll? *gasp!* Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson? *gasp!* Diana Hyde? *gasp!* The list goes on and on and each time I would gasp or giggle in delight. And really, with the time that this was taking place in (Late 19th Century) the premise that the women really held their own was quite fascinating.

As someone who has read many of the classics brought to life by the characters (Frankenstein, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula, to name a few) this was utterly amazing. I think Goss did a great job with tying in the ACTUAL stories into the women’s stories and making them more complete. Listening to the audio book was especially great, the narrator was amazing at giving all the women their own voices and even the men were distinguishable.

To see the rest of my review, check me out here.

Thanks!!!

Oops! I definitely did not mean to go so long between posts! It’s been almost a month! Time sure does fly when you’re…staying busy?? The last month has been pretty crazy but let us get to the nitty gritty, eh?

My book club finished this one and OMG was it one of the best books I’ve read all year! There were, of course, some problems (looking at you, Charlie St. Clair) but for the most part, it was a very engaging read.

The backdrop of both the Great War and the aftermath of WWII make for suspense, high energy and yet somber thought and slow pacing, as we read the story from two ladies lives. We have Eve, a spy in the Alice Network during the Great War. Her story was, by far, the most incredible, edge of your seat action packed adventure, that really made you want to know how she became the embittered old woman that Charlie meets. Then you have Charlie, this American semi-socialite who is being sent overseas because of a Problem (yes, it’s capitalized) that has to be taken care of. Her story, to me, while not very engaging, did sort of have its very own take off and climax with resolution. It just happened to late in the book for me. So I never really was engaged with her or her story at all.

For me, Eve was the real hero. This was, after all, a story based on REAL women, the REAL Alice Network. Those women had balls. They did what had to be done so that the war could be won. They deserve to be honored everyday, I think.

For more of my thoughts on this amazing novel, check out my Goodreads review here.

Now, this is going to be a long blog post if I don’t end it now, but I have been reading a ton more lately and just finished both the series (or where the series has ended so far) Saga, as well as the remainder of the Themis Files triology, Waking Gods and Only Human. All of these have kept me on my toes and deep in the sci-fi and fantasy world, where I needed to go to escape the realness of The Alice Network.

Keep up with me here and on Goodreads and until next time!