Review:So I guess I may be a Stephenson fanboy. I started out with his more traditional science fiction books and really enjoyed them. However, even with Diamond Age, you could see Stephenson's tendency towards long discourses that may or may not relate entirely to the story at hand.

I found this book to be overly long and full of various discourses that went meandering about, sometimes with only a tenuous connection to the main plot. For all that, I found the story to be incredibly intriguin... Read more

Review:This was a great great book to read. I remember reading another book by Joss and that completely tore away my thinking about how the world is evolving and how close minded we are getting.

And this book was like that too. It tore my thinking down. And that's the best part about his books. The fact that it is written so simply, you think that the book is nothing much to write home about and that it will be light and meaningless, but it has such deep nuggets of wisdom inside.

Yew writ... Read more

Review:I'd love to say this book is a good one but I can't because the illustrations overwrite the text. Whoever formatted this for ebook didn't bother to read their own work. I'll muddle through. Publishers like this are either lazy, uninformed or greedy. Read more

Review:Unfortunately as is always the case with Christie, the detective is privy to a variety of clues unavailable to the reader. Otherwise fun to read. She still holds the record for the best mystery ever written (And Then There Were None) Read more

Review:Tries to engage with real issues, but stops short of actually making a statement. Suitable for teenagers who will enjoy the pretty pictures, not recommended for adults who want to read it to learn something. Read more

Review:I am a fan of the artist and the webcomic. So when this set of comics came to print, I instantly bought it to read to my daughter. The print version (the book) is very hard to read. Many of the comic panels have been shrunk down considerably and both myself, and my daughter have a very difficult time reading the words. The pictures are also graphically shrunk down and shoved into the pages. Read more

Review:I feel as though I am being disloyal to this great author. I have thoroughly enjoyed her previous books but this one just didn't cut it for me. This book had great potential, I felt it did not concentrate enough on the hero and heroine. Too much dialogue with secondary characters. I had to re-read the first sex scene, it was too sudden, it felt disjointed, hurried and totally disappointing. I couldn't finish this book, sorry! Read more

Review:I'll make this short and sweet:

This book has an excellent first half and a horrendous second half.

The longer and unsweet explanation:

The first half introduces the cast of characters, and the dialogue is very clever, smooth, and fun to read. (If you like Eloisa James's style of dialogue. Some people might not.) The setting up of the two main characters (ostensibly the hero and heroine) and the secondary cast is well done: personalities drawn, relationships drawn. There are... Read more

Review:I love Alaric, I like Willa, her best friend Lavinia, his best friend Part, and his brother, North, heir to the Wilde Dukedom. Truly Good story, love the quirky Duke's family! Great Characters, even the pets are unusual! This the wittiest story told by Eloise James! I deducted one star, for the use of the term Giggle, she use it correctly, while describing these girls without a brain, falling for a man falsely portrayed in a play. However, to describe the intelligent, mischievous Willa, it isn't... Read more

Review:Eloisa James has done it again. In this installment of Desperate Duchesses By the Numbers we once again meet an unorthodox woman going against society's dictates to have a career - this time as the owner of a Registry for Governesses. Of course, Mrs Eugenia Snowe could simply sit back and take her place as a member of the ton but she chooses to use her time to help families find just the right governess no matter how difficult the child/children might be.
Theodore (Ward) Reeve might be ille... Read more