Housekeeping:
Next week’s column will be single-item, probably a review of a series, and there might be a giveaway attached.
Pictures:
I was able to spend a couple of days at the seaside village of Mendocino, California, and the images used in the column are from that trip.
Books and Writing:
This is two years old but still interesting, as Crime Reads interviews Joe R. Lansale about Hap and Leonard.
Publishers Weekly has an article about bookseller unions.
September 23rd, 2020. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | no comments |
Leigh Bardugo, best known for her GRISHA young adult magical fantasy trilogy, explores a different corner of the Grisha world in her new young adult novel, Six of Crows. In the city of Ketterdam, an analog for Amsterdam, criminal gangs control the waterfront, and the surrounding area is a den of iniquity where everything can be bought and sold, including people. One of the gangs, appropriately called the Dregs, is led by 17 year old Kaz Brekker,
September 23rd, 2020. Tadiana Jones, Rebecca Fisher and Kat Hooper´s rating: 4, 4.5 | Leigh Bardugo | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Do it! One of the best things I've read in recent years.
This reminds me. I want to read Addie LaRue.
We’re in total agreement David!
I felt just the same. The prose and character work was excellent. The larger story was unsatisfying, especially compared to…
Hmmm. I think I'll pass.