A Side of Panache

Welcome back to our irregularly scheduled nonsense! Last time, Kelsey got a house and a car and a full ride scholarship to her dream school and a full bank account so that she never has to worry about living expenses ever again. But we're supposed to feel bad for her because she broke up with Ren, and she's so sad :( That's pretty much all that happened. This chapter, Kelsey starts college. And meets some additional love interests. Yes, that was plural. Chapter Two: Wushu A couple of days later, the fall terms starts, which I guess gives us a better idea of the timeline of the first book. And also has the side effect of making Kelsey's secret college admissions just that much more sketch. She doesn't seem too worried about most of her classes, because she can just write about what she learned in India while curse-breaking over the summer. We don't get to hear about what she does in class, though! She just says that she studies hard and sees Sarah a...

Hello! Welcome back to nonsense. What happened last time? Not a whole lot. Kelsey exposited about why she's upset (I explained before that I didn't have a problem with that because that's how sequels usually work). Basically, she "broke up" with Ren--despite never actually officially dating him--because she thinks she's not good enough for him, and then left him in India to start college in Oregon. On the one hand, it's kind of nice seeing a protagonist of a YA novel who isn't a high school student. On the other hand, I absolutely despise every single thing that happens while she's in college. So. Let's go! Chapter One: WOU The chapter starts when the plane lands. Which only makes me question why the prologue wasn't just a first chapter, since chapter one starts immediately after the ending of the prologue. The first book had a prologue and epilogue from the antagonist's point of view, so I expected the same thing to hap...

Hi, everyone who made it through book one of the Tiger's Curse saga! I hope you're all still in one piece after the disaster that was the first book. Things only go more off the rails in this one. Seriously, if you haven't seen my mental breakdown documented on my Tumblr , there is literally no way to predict the weird route this book takes. Let's get this thing started! The Cover Oooh, this one's a black tiger! Is this symbolic of a darker turn in the story? Or is it just a picture of Kishan because there's a love triangle in this one? You decide! The Back Cover Faith. Love. Desire. How far would you go to free the one you love? The melodrama is back! Joy. Kelsey Hayes's eighteenth summer was crazy . What, are we measuring time in Redwall units now? Kelsey is eighteen seasons old.... Aside from battling immortal sea monkeys and trekking through the jungles of India, she fell in love with Ren, a 300-year-old prince...