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the book is a comic or graphic novel. unlike most i have read it truly was a novel. it had chapters and the hardback book is the shape and size of a regular novel. it was kinda like a memoir. i really could sympathize with the child and her difficult elementary years wearing a phonic ear and going deaf. the worries and social aspects of that age brought back memories and related to me even as an adult.

i liked it and wish it was a series. it's silly alien fun in the time of the USA's expansion west.

i also read The Hedge Knight and The Sworn Sword: The Graphic Novel. i first read George R.R. Martin in the anthology Legends. i love Dunk & Egg. i also love fantasy anthologies. i would never normally read the fantasy series by these authors because they are more than 10 volumes or just feel like it because the books are so very long. anthologies give me a chance to read their work.

anyway, i did enjoy the graphic version of the stories.
i plan on reading all of the Song of fire and ice series this way. but my goodness those GN's are taking forever to make.

i also read The Hedge Knight and The Sworn Sword: The Graphic Novel. i first read George R.R. Martin in the anthology Legends. i love Dunk & Egg. i also love fantasy anthologies. i would never normally read the fantasy series by these authors because they are more than 10 volumes or just feel like it because the books are so very long. anthologies give me a chance to read their work.

anyway, i did enjoy the graphic version of the stories.
i plan on reading all of the Song of fire and ice series this way. but my goodness those GN's are taking forever to make.

so i think this, my last foodie mystery that i read for the month, is the best one yet. lots of recipes, a good mystery, adult characters that are not too silly or annoying and a bit of romance. i did tend to skip over the very detailed pages describing what she was cooking but if you are a good enough cook/baker those alone would have been enough for you to figure out how to make the dishes she cooked on the tv show and for her cooking school. i did figure out who the killer was but there was a bit of a twist. hope the next one int he series is just as good.

it's is great. i love it. i will read the other volumes. the first chapter was "meh," but i don't give up until chapter 3. i am glad i was hooked by the end of ch 3. i really love the fact she writes a food column in the newspaper and they put the article in the book. the article is a cute, funny story about something that happened to her and why she choose the recipe. she also includes a cocktail recipe with each article. and it's present day which is great.

really 2/12 stars i did not like all the details; they bored me. i dd not like China; she too bored me. i figured out all of the twists and murders (except 1) well before they were revealed. no really a foodie mystery. talks a A LOT about food, the prepping of a meal, but no recipes for any of the delicious dishes consumed.

it was a free ebook. no new info but i like it. it explained clean eating simply and cited sources. then it has a bunch of recipes to help get you started. each recipe is labeled to let you know if it fits special diets like gluten free or vegan. each recipe also has notes that tell you what benefits the ingredients have like ginger helps inflammation.

I have read Ringo's stuff in anthologies so i figured it'd be sc-fi dragons. umm there were no dragons well ok, 1. and we didn't even get to talk with her. so the title is a big fat lie and the cover is also a big fat lie this is not a fantasy book.it's a sci-fi book with medieval tendencies.

I read the other reviews of the book and was very surprised by the claims of this book being hateful towards women.

There are a ton of books where women are not the main characters and are just stereotypes, the same can be said of men in chick-lit, children in adult books, adults in YA books, etc. This doesn't make the book hateful towards that group.

One person mentioned rape fantasies as being a reason..um have you read a romance novel...ever? i have read more than one historical and contemporary romance and erotica novels that had rape in it and the women still fell for the men. i actually stopped reading a very famous romance author (coulter) because of this. i thought the fact these women in Ringo's novel bounced back from the rapes so fast a bit unrealistic since they came from a society that had never heard of such things.

I think someone also disliked the little girl fantasies and the bondage fantasy which was such a small part of the book that i wonder at these folks for focusing so much on it. anyway, again they must be very sheltered if they have not heard of these fetishes /fantasies before reading this book.

a couple other people complained about the women and their periods. i thought it was a bit unrealistic that the women were not freaking out more. i hate, HATE, hate getting my period. i think it's disgusting and oh so uncomfortable and inconvenient. i don't see the misogyny there.


somebody else said it was misogynistic because the women were complaining about giving natural births instead of using uterine replicators. really? REALLY? all the women in my family have had difficult pregnancies and labors. the women on my mom's side have a hard time even getting pregnant. a uterine replicator would solve both problems. i am not saying it would be better but it's certainly not being hateful.

The book was ok.it was great but i will not be reading the sequels because it sounds like a long war and the main characters are cool but i prefer my military sci-fi to have women protagonists (Like Tanya Huff's Valor series and Weber's Harrington series).

i gotta say i don't get the negative reviews were misogyny was the main reason. the other negative reviews were users' personal taste and that's understandable.

A.C. Gaughen- Author's note in Scarlet:
To me, true love is about finding someone who not only sees and accepts your demons but also is willing to step up and fight them when you stumble.

SPOILERS* SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS* The book was good but umm.


first part of the story Saba is going through some serous post traumatic stress as is her rescued brother Lugh. Lugh displays his PTSD as anger. Saba is seeing dead people, not sleeping, sleepwalking, and blacking out. So they come upon a settlement on their journey out to the big water. Emmi convinces them to stop to get help for Saba. a medicine woman/shaman/star reader girl is there who helps Saba. Saba leaves to find Jack when Maev comes to the camp with awful news. Saba leaves before she is finished being healed. so i am like okay wait. you are seeing dead people and all out of sorts but you are gonna go tearing off to help Jack before you are completely recovered. really??? smh. you are going to try and leave your family and friends behind, yeah really. so i am not liking Saba so far but i excuse it cuz of the PTSD.



she is set (obsessed) on finding Jack just like she was set on finding Lugh in the first book. Saba is almost back to her bad ass self but not quite. She is not as strong; she's still broken, confused. then she doubts Jack. so you go all this way not doubting and you are smart enough to figure out Jack's message BUT you can't figure out that Jack needed to shut Emmi up before she talked and revealed that he was not really Tonton and that the rest of you guys might be nearby??? REALLY???!! ok. her brain is not working right, PTSD. i get that but then you sleep with DEMALO?? ok. you and Demalo have some weird Pyschic connection; mad at Jack =want to hurt him, and a little drunk. i get it but your first time?? REALLY???!!!

then you go back and help the rebels and have a chance to kill Demalo and you don't. umm i might excuse it cuz of the heartstone. then you lie to Tommo. then just like that you are not mad at jack and believe and lay with him as well. SIGH. I. AM. DONE. i feel like Tommo at the end of the book. oh Saba. Oh Moria.

i liked it it. the ending did disappoint a little but i still liked it.

TODD MCCAFFREY IS RUINING PERN!

please stop him. dragonheart was not a very good book.

okay so he is telling the story of the dragon riders that went back in time during the dragon plague. fine...poor storytelling. i mean his books are getting worse instead of better. there were so many thing i did not like.

the dialogue was a major issue. the ages of fiona and terin was another one, a lil gross and kinda unbelievable. the needless detail about how they were going to get the weyr up and running. i mean yeah it is nice to know but really so many pages of dialogue were spent on it i got bored. oh and how about the not keeping of the secrets from the future i mean they were blabbing to everyone stuff they should not.

i am sorry it was just so ick. it was supposed to be more of a character story not a lot of action going on, the characters were great ideas but not very realistic or fully formed. i was sooo very disappointed.

i think i should start a petition and send it to todd and anne mccaffrey. i think there are writers out there that would do a much better job at continuing the story of the dragonriders of pern than todd.