Reseña: My Sweet Folly

My Sweet Folly 

by  

Laura Kinsale

 400 pages

(first published 1997)

ISBN: 0425209792 (ISBN13: 9780425209790)

Edition Language: English

Literary Awards RITA Award by Romance Writers of America Nominee for Long Historical Romance (1998)

 BLURB: After years of innocent correspondence with her husband's cousin, Folie Hamilton had him pictured in her mind as a heroic soldier. But when he returns to London after her husband's death, Folie meets a man on the edge of madness-who both frightens and fascinates her.

My rating: 3.8

She could hardly remember the unhappy girl she must have been, to develop such a passion for a man who was no more than ink upon paper.

Lo que comienza como un intercambio postal entre Folie Hamilton y Robert Cambourne, primo de su esposo, mientras este esta en la India en 1800s se convierte en una amistad con los años y luego en algo más. Sin embargo, al quedar ella viuda siete años después, él corta abruptamente la correspondencia. Años más tarde, Folie tiene 30 años , su hijastra esta en edad de presentarse en sociedad para buscar marido, y Robert es ahora su tutor legal.

La correspondencia entre ambos es una delicia.

El encuentro cara a cara entre ambos protagonistas pasa a convertir la trama en una de esas historias donde uno no esta seguro si el personaje esta loco, lo quieren volver loco, y se queda elaborando teorias descabelladas entre paranoia y sinsentidos que nos dejan en confusión.

Reseña: Just One of the Boys

Just One of the Boys 

by 

Leah Rooper

Kate Rooper 

241 pages

Published October 2nd 2017 by Entangled Teen

ISBN:1640633421 (ISBN13: 9781640633421)

Edition Language:English

BLURB: Alice Bell has one goal: to play for the elite junior hockey team the Chicago Falcons. But when she’s passed over at tryouts for being a girl, she’ll do anything to make her dream a reality…even disguising herself as her twin brother. With her amazing skills on the ice, Alice is sure she’ll fit in easily. That is, until she starts falling for one of her teammates…  Hayden Tremblay, star of the Falcons, can’t keep himself out of the penalty box. Constantly living in the shadow of his older brother, Hayden’s losing his passion for hockey. But when he gets shown up on the ice by the Falcons’ new rookie, Hayden’s determined to teach the kid a thing or two. Little does he guess that “Al’s” surprises on the ice are just the beginning...

Disclaimer: This Entangled Teen Crush title proves that wonderful things can happen when you’re brave enough to go after your dream. Dream hockey player, that is! Warning--a few locker room scenes are included...

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

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fwi - there is drunkards and mention of sex (not explicit)

muchas cosas tontas, si la chica adora tanto el hockey, ¿por que no lucho porque el coach reconociera que fue ella quien gano el puesto y no el hermano?

sigue perpetuando la idea de no pensar como niña por hablar de sentimientos o siquiera el tener sentimientos.

Reseña: Where Would You Be Now? (The Coast Road 0.5)

Where Would You Be Now? (The Coast Road 0.5)

by 

Carrie Vaughn

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

¡Donde estarias ahora? Se preguntan entre si los sobrevivientes en una clinica donde el hambre es el dia a dia, y se plantean seriamente el controlar la poblaación. ¿en la universidad? de vacaciones? ¿con tu novio, tu perro, tus padres, comiendo helado o bailando en una disco? ... ¿Esto pasará o solamente va a empeorar?

Short dystopian piece about life in America after a post-disaster, day-a-day reality with problems with famine and worry about armed gangs, like many other tons of dystopia show. Still... I'd like to know more, is too short.

A clinic still working with doctors and nurses trying to help and survive, worried about fed their members and colaborators. Still uncertain about the world or if this it.

This keep remind me of another story, and yes is similar to Amaryllis ---Amaryllis and Other Stories

This is a prequel to Bannerless. Could be read online here. 

https://www.tor.com/2018/02/07/where-would-you-be-now-carrie-vaughn/

Reseña: White Sand Vol. 2

White Sand Vol. 2 

by  

Brandon Sanderson

 160 pages

Published February 21st 2018 by Dynamite

ASIN: B0759PD6ZW

Edition Language: English

BLURB: Following the loss of most of his colleagues in a violent ambush, Kenton has become Lord Mastrell of the few remaining Sand Masters, magicians who can manipulate sand to do their bidding. With the ruling council poised against him, the hot-headed Kenton must become a diplomat to have any hope of preventing the eradication of his people forever. However, there’s another complication: assassins are coming for him from all directions, and Kenton’s only true ally is Khriss, a visitor from the other side of the planet who has an agenda of her own to pursue.

White Sand Volume 2 continues the New York Times bestselling series of graphic novels, bringing a crucial chapter of Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere to life exclusively in a visual format.

My rating: 3.5

I got problems once again with my e-arc pdf copy , the images were not clear and a number of missing letters do a very frustrasting reading of an otherwise engaging story, more complex this time.

Kenton, now as Lord Mastrell of the remaining sand masters require the votes of the Lords to keep The Diem . But everywhere he turns for help or alliances found old grudges against the sand masters, religious prejudice and asassins attacks.

Maybe is time that some things change. The old ways of the sand masters produced a lot of enemies. Khriss is willing to help with diplomacy ... for some information.

Reseña: Bint: The Night Masquerade (Binti 3)

The Night Masquerade  (Binti #3)

by  

Nnedi Okorafor

 208 pages

Published January 16th 2018 by Tor.com

ISBN:0765393131 (ISBN13: 9780765393135)

Edition Language:English

 BLURB: The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fiction trilogy that began with Nnedi Okorafor's Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning BINTI.
Binti has returned to her home planet, believing that the violence of the Meduse has been left behind. Unfortunately, although her people are peaceful on the whole, the same cannot be said for the Khoush, who fan the flames of their ancient rivalry with the Meduse.
Far from her village when the conflicts start, Binti hurries home, but anger and resentment has already claimed the lives of many close to her.
Once again it is up to Binti, and her intriguing new friend Mwinyi, to intervene--though the elders of her people do not entirely trust her motives--and try to prevent a war that could wipe out her people, once and for all.

Don't miss this essential concluding volume in the Binti trilogy.

My rating: 3.7

Previously: While Binti was at her father's people , the desert people, barely grasping the new knowledge delivered to her , she feel something very bad happening at the Rook , the family home.

So we deal with a overwhelmed girl, between bouts of flashbacks from the original travel to the Uni and the deaths, anxious for getting home with her family, and assaulted for all a new kind of ...language? ...mental perception? A bad trip among desert storms combating PSTD and her worst nightmares.

Reseña: Nice Dragons Finish Last (Heartstrikers, #1)

Nice Dragons Finish Last (Heartstrikers, #1)

by 

Rachel Aaron

283 pages

Published July 11th 2014 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

ISBN:1500506338 (ISBN13: 9781500506339)

Edition Language:English

Series:Heartstrikers #1

Literary Awards:Audie Award for Fantasy (2016)

My rating: 4.5

My bookshelves; magical-practitioners, fantasia-urbana, alternate-reality, shifters_dragons,  magia, mage, not-sure-but-not-human, hic-sunt-dracones, dystopia, psychic-clairvoyant-seer-prophet

For some, there is no more harsh judge than family. Imagine a family of power hungry and ruthless dragons where you are the fail, the shame, the runt and worst ... NICE. Julius Heartstriker is one of the youngest of Bethesda, he is pacifist and accepted that as the runt he better keep out of the way of big predators hiding in his room, being a slacker, playing games and studying online. Well, mommy dearest take the 'swim or die' approach and kick him out of home with no clothes or money, and sealed from his true form to the worst place for a dragon: Detroit Free Zone, governed by Algonquin the spirit of the Lakes (whom hates dragons).

Reseña: Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Dog Men

  +Digital copy gently provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review+

Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Dog Men 

by

 Jim Butcher

 146 pages

Expected publication: February 13th 2018 by Dynamite Entertainment

ISBN:1524105449 (ISBN13: 9781524105440)

Edition Language:English

Series

The Dresden Files Graphic Novels #7,  

Dresden Files: Dog Men #1-6

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: adventure-and-action, fantasia-urbana, ghouls, graphic-novel, magia, netgalley-arcs, werewolf-hombrelobo-lycans, wizardry

*the problem: I don't know what happened with the edition, but there is a lot of missing letters so it looks like bad spelling ... as I see anothers reviewers complaining about the same I guess it's not just my copy.

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Harry Dresden is passing a bad time , consumed by regrets and nightmares, afraid mostly for his friends' future. This is after Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Wild Card . Mouse is trying to get some sense in him when an old -literally- member of the White Council appears.

Reseña: Thorn and Fangs (Thorn and Fangs #1)

 +Digital copy gently provided by editors via Netgalley. My thoughts are all mine+

Thorns and Fangs 

by 

Gillian St. Kevern

 372 pages

Published January 18th 2016 by NineStar Press

ISBN13:9781911153184

Edition Language:English

URL:http://ninestarpress.com/product/thorns-and-fangs/

My rating: 3.5 not exactly garden variety stars

bookshelves:  adult-mature, insta-lust-or-luv, m-m, magia, mxm-romance-paranormal, mystery-thriller, necromancy, netgalley-arcs, not-sure-but-not-human, tstl-protagonist, vampiros, w_male-prostitute

first idea: get better after the start.

Nathan works as escort at a club in New Camden. No sad stories, or urgent pression to be prostitute btw. Country boy, still is fascinated by the supernatural life of the city; likes the dance , the thrill of be wanted. When Hunter hired Nate for a private party as a'shared gift'(in case you're wondering it was m-m-m-m), he accepts despite his inner warnings and the feel that something is not right when he is not able to follow his second thoughts or even can't leave when realise that is a house of vampires ... That really made me struggle to keep reading the book at the start because vampiric compulsion rises here it ugly head (not pun intended), and that is NOT sexy. It's evident when the manager accepts regardless of it's against the politics of the club.

Anyway, Nate now keep thinking in Ben , the honoured, a younger vampire. There is even a joke of Aki, his best friend, about Twilight (and yeah broody tortured dead vampire and young obsessed uh escort. Totally ;P).

BUT then this story take a curve into THRILLER territory. 

Reseña: Valancy Stirling o El castillo azul

Valancy Stirling   

o   El castillo azul

by

L.M. Montgomery

 304 pages

Published May 2015 by dÉpoca (first published 1926)

Original Title:The Blue Castle

ISBN13:9788494363429

Edition Language:Spanish

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Valancy Stirling is introverted love.

«El miedo es el pecado original —dijo de pronto una voz suave y apacible que provenía de lo más profundo de la conciencia de Valancy—. Porque casi todo el mal que hay en el mundo tiene su origen en el hecho de que alguien tiene miedo de algo».

Valancy Stirling vive en Derwood, cerca de Muskoka (Canada´) , ella sigue soltera a los 29 años, odia su vida, su rutina, el seguir los dictados de su madre y tías, odia las burlas de sus tios. Pero nunca alza la voz , al contrario como hija obediente agacha la cabeza y permite que ellos controlen su vida , desde cómo vestirse y peinarse, a qué comer y qué leer. El único consuelo de esta reprimida solterona es soñar con castillos en el aire, con su Castillo Azul, un castillo de ensueño con cuatro torreones y donde puede estar a gusto con un compañero cuyo fisico varia con la edad de esta soñador. Eso es hasta que un día se escapa para ver al médico que no es al que va siempre la familia, y se entera que le queda un año de vida...

¿Qué harían ustedes? Probablemente lo mismo que ella ;)
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Reseña: I'm Not Your Sweet Babboo!

 *Digital copy gently provided by the editors via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review+

I'm Not Your Sweet Babboo! 

by  

Charles M. Schulz

 

  176 pages

Expected publication: March 13th 2018 by Andrews McMeel Publishing

ISBN:1449485405 (ISBN13: 9781449485405)

Edition Language:English

 

BLURB: Pick up a glass of milk, curl up with your security blanket, and enjoy the timeless brilliance of Peanuts in this new collection of comic strips!
Everyone’s favorite classic characters are back: Peppermint Patty enrolls in a private school to end her academic troubles—only to discover she’s just graduated from obedience school. Linus finds himself entangled in a love triangle (and stuck on top of a snow-covered roof). And Charlie Brown runs away from the law and becomes a vagrant baseball coach.

The Peanuts crew is lovable, popular, and charming, but please whatever you do, don’t call Linus “My Sweet Babboo!”

 

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Peanuts is a cartoon ageless that still keep entertaining the readers. Charley Brown the boy whom keep trying against the odds. The superimaginative Snoopy and his adventures, and the way that he is able to manipulate the humans is funny and many times incomprensible to the spectator . Like the way Charlie follow through his wishes, and Peppermint Paty believes he is a lawyer. But overall how he thinks so high of himself and diverge from the tradition - like sleeping over the roof.