Wandfasted by Laurie Forest. Wandfasted is a prequel to The Black Witch. It is due out on July1, 2017. Hopefully it gets a cover soon! You can pre-order the Kindle version here.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Waiting on Wednesday: The Problematic Edition.
This week I'm waiting on:
Wandfasted by Laurie Forest. Wandfasted is a prequel to The Black Witch. It is due out on July1, 2017. Hopefully it gets a cover soon! You can pre-order the Kindle version here.
Wandfasted by Laurie Forest. Wandfasted is a prequel to The Black Witch. It is due out on July1, 2017. Hopefully it gets a cover soon! You can pre-order the Kindle version here.
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Problematic Review: Sad Perfect by Stephanie Elliot.
Another rant/review this time for Sad Perfect by Stephanie Elliot. This author has been the victim of a rather vicious attack on Twitter. Please show her some support: https://twitter.com/stephanieelliot
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Problematic Reviews: The Black Witch
I decided to film my first book blogger video on Youtube today. I decided to keep it simple. So many other book bloggers already stand in front on bookshelves n stuff. I decided to film where I actually spend most of my time reading, in bed!
I also decided to do a little written review since I ranted a lot in this video.
Review of The Black Witch by Laurie Forest:
The Black Witch was a pretty damn cool book! It was both fun and thought provoking. I had a gran ole time reading about Ellroeen and her adventures at Verpax University. She starts off the book as this very ignorant young lady who is raised by her uncle with her brothers. Elloreen basically grows up in the middle of nowhere. She is not exposed to different cultures and ideas until she goes away to school. The Black Witch does an excellent job of exploring what makes (some) people prejudice. All of the races are kind are pretty much segregated so, they have no real knowledge of each other. Elloreen goes to Verpax and learns that much of what she grew believing was a lie. It was fun to watch he grow up and learn about how her world really works.
There was a shit ton of characters in The Black Witch. We are introduced to some truly evil villains like Fallon and her family. There are also two sort of love interests, but no love triangle (yet). I would have to say I'm absolutely #teamlukas. I feel like her will eventually come around. There was also a lot of cool fantasy creatures. Even dragons! We also meet some good guys along the way. I'm anxious to see what happens in the upcoming books! We are left with a lot of questions that need to be answered!
The Black Witch is honestly one of the most progressive young adult books I have ever read. I'm absolutely stumped as to why it has received so much hate. I mean just look:
1. Elloreen arrives at school as a conservative with little knowledge of world history.
2. Elloreen learns to become more open-minded thanks to her liberal professors.
3. There is a bad guy who comes into power overnight and wants to basically close the borders.
4. There are a very diverse group of characters.
5. They speak out against sexist stuff like the forced marriage of 13 year old girls
6. There are giant kick-ass feminist women
.
I could honestly go on all day.
Anyhoodles... The Black Witch has a pre-quel coming out in July called Wantfasted! You can pre-order it here.
I also decided to do a little written review since I ranted a lot in this video.
Review of The Black Witch by Laurie Forest:
The Black Witch was a pretty damn cool book! It was both fun and thought provoking. I had a gran ole time reading about Ellroeen and her adventures at Verpax University. She starts off the book as this very ignorant young lady who is raised by her uncle with her brothers. Elloreen basically grows up in the middle of nowhere. She is not exposed to different cultures and ideas until she goes away to school. The Black Witch does an excellent job of exploring what makes (some) people prejudice. All of the races are kind are pretty much segregated so, they have no real knowledge of each other. Elloreen goes to Verpax and learns that much of what she grew believing was a lie. It was fun to watch he grow up and learn about how her world really works.
There was a shit ton of characters in The Black Witch. We are introduced to some truly evil villains like Fallon and her family. There are also two sort of love interests, but no love triangle (yet). I would have to say I'm absolutely #teamlukas. I feel like her will eventually come around. There was also a lot of cool fantasy creatures. Even dragons! We also meet some good guys along the way. I'm anxious to see what happens in the upcoming books! We are left with a lot of questions that need to be answered!
The Black Witch is honestly one of the most progressive young adult books I have ever read. I'm absolutely stumped as to why it has received so much hate. I mean just look:
1. Elloreen arrives at school as a conservative with little knowledge of world history.
2. Elloreen learns to become more open-minded thanks to her liberal professors.
3. There is a bad guy who comes into power overnight and wants to basically close the borders.
4. There are a very diverse group of characters.
5. They speak out against sexist stuff like the forced marriage of 13 year old girls
6. There are giant kick-ass feminist women
.
I could honestly go on all day.
Anyhoodles... The Black Witch has a pre-quel coming out in July called Wantfasted! You can pre-order it here.
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Problematic Book Releases:May 2017
I've decided to start a new monthly feature called: Problematic Book Releases. I will list and briefly discuss all of the "problematic" books being released during the given month,
May is a busy month for the whiny special snowflakes. We have quite a few "problematic" book releases.
Week of May 1st:
The Black Witch by Laurie Forest. This book caused quite a stir among sjws after the Blogger Who Shall Not Be Named wrote an extremely misleading 8.7k word review. All the other sjw blogger (sheep) jumped on the anti-tbw bandwagon, and suddenly The Black Witch had a 1 rating on Goodreads. All because of ONE REVIEW. Seriously, look at all those 1 star reviews. 95% of them link to her original review.
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J Maas. Apparently this book is ace-phobic. The accusation is just too stupid to discuss. Seriously folks, it hurts my brain.
The One Memory of Flora Banks by Emily Barr. The main character memory issues. This book romanticizes them or something. Yet another issue too stupid to discuss. MY POOR BRAIN. I'm losing brain cells here folks. JUST STOP IT!
The Wishing Heart by J.C. Welker. A "white-washed Aladdin." Thanks for that one Elle. The one person on Twitter who is far too cute to be so evil.
Week of May 8th:
The Traitor's Kiss by Erin Beaty. An old sjw favorite, "cultural appropriation." SIGH
Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy. Twitter sjws freaked the fuck out when the summary was released.
The Girl Who Wouldn't Die by Randall Platt. This book offended some snowflake author on Twitter. A book about a Jewish girl in 1939 Poland has anti-Semitic stuff in it. SHOCKING! This same snowflake went on to call a Nazi Liker and a piece of shit. It must be nice to have the kind of privilege that lets you get away with behavior like that. Imagine the outcry if any author on this list went on Twitter and called readers pieces of shit. YEAH. It would be a shit storm.
The Girl Who Wouldn't Die by Randall Platt. This book offended some snowflake author on Twitter. A book about a Jewish girl in 1939 Poland has anti-Semitic stuff in it. SHOCKING! This same snowflake went on to call a Nazi Liker and a piece of shit. It must be nice to have the kind of privilege that lets you get away with behavior like that. Imagine the outcry if any author on this list went on Twitter and called readers pieces of shit. YEAH. It would be a shit storm.
The rest of May: Nothing! They haven't had enough time to find any late May releases yet. Give it time. I'll probably be updating this list soon enough.
Edit: Not even 24 hours since I posted this, and I have a new book for the list. All books added since the original post will their titles in bold.
Edit: Not even 24 hours since I posted this, and I have a new book for the list. All books added since the original post will their titles in bold.
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