A Stroke of Midnight Chapter 16: The magic fuck-cup
Chapter 16 begins with more fucking waiting around. This time they’re waiting for the cops to come back after escorting their bespelled colleague away. Merry is all nervous at the […]
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Betsy Taylor Review #2: Undead and Unemployed–Here we go again!!
PROLOGUE: Police Interview a Witness to Betsy’s Attempts at Ruling. She doesn’t seem especially good at it…shocker! The second book begins with a man giving a police report to Detective […]
A Stroke of Midnight Chapter 15: Don’t ever let anyone tell you you’re not beautiful. Except when no one tells you you’re beautiful. And other terrible Laurell K Hamilton lessons.
Chapter 15 begins with the police being allowed into the sithen. They’re all immediately bespelled by how magical and beautiful the plain boring grey walls of the sithen were. Whoops, […]
Undead and Unwed Chapters 26 & 27, plus the Epilogue: “Sexy” time for Sinclair. Betsy Wetsy. Oh god, I’m so sorry. …and finally, the finale. Hooray!
Before I start, I want to apologize to anyone who was waiting in earnest for my continuation. Some real life issues followed by a day-long WiFi blackout ruined my plans. […]
A Stroke of Midnight Chapter 14: Tattletales and Faerie Tantrums
Chapter 14 starts with Merry FINALLY actually meeting up with the cops. Deja vu? Didn’t I start the previous review with almost the same sentence? And guess what! It starts […]
A Stroke of Midnight Chapter 13: An actual interesting character? Let’s promptly forget she ever exists!
Chapter 13 begins with Merry FINALLY making her way to the cops. Of course she can hear them bickering. Those deep male voices grumbling. Can’t wait to have one or […]
Undead and Unwed Chapter 25: Yeah, let’s just take the easy way out of absolutely everything. Plus MORE CLICHÉS! Omg, SURPRIIISE!
We open with Betsy waking up, thirstier than she’s ever been before! I knew why. Dennis, that traitor schmuck asshole, had hit me so hard if I’d been alive it […]
A Stroke of Midnight Chapter 11-12: Ignore all warnings, ye who enter here
I really wish this chapter started off with Doyle being described as sniffing the air “like a bloodhound”, but alas, he just sniffs the air like a normal fucking idiot. […]
Undead and Unwed Chapters 23-24: One entirely too short chapter followed by one entirely too long chapter. Vampire 101. Betsy and the Bullshit Prophecy Which Robs Her of All Autonomy, Apparently.
Like I said, Chapter 23 is very short. It’s about four solid pages in my paperback copy, including the half-page Chapter page and the half-page end page. Which is what […]
A Stroke of Midnight Chapter 9-10: Don’t make me go full bogart
Chapter 9 begins with Merry and Co having to fight their way into the kitchen/crime scene. Maggie May, the brownie who runs the kitchens, was chucking cast iron pans at […]
Trailer Park of Emotion 