A Side of Panache

Hello, and welcome back to our irregularly scheduled nonsense! Last time, Ren threw the biggest hissy fit I've ever seen from a romantic lead because Kelsey told him that she wanted to date Kishan instead. That's pretty much all that happened, but Ren as a character is deeply troubling because he acts like an entitled brat. Before I move onto this chapter, I want to play a fun game! Houck keeps throwing random useless characters at me, so I'm going to make use of them even if she doesn't. When Kelsey was going to class at WOU, she went on a date with Artie, who was awful. He "[stands] very close" to her, corners her after class, and simply tells her that they're going on a date. When they're on their date, which Kelsey doesn't want to be on, Artie flaunts the fact that he "date[s] lots of girls," trying to demonstrate his value to Kelsey by making her jealous (I think? Artie is not a very well-realized character).   He talks about only hi...

Hello, and welcome back to our irregularly scheduled nonsense! Last time, Kelsey and Kishan finally made out, but then Ren crashed their date and threw their stuff overboard, because Ren is a childish asshole. That's literally all that happened (other than some whining from Kelsey about her hurt leg). This time, the Drama comes to a new height because Ren...has gotten over his mysterious amnesia! Which wasn't all that mysterious, because we literally watched it happen in real time in the last book. That doesn't stop Kelsey from being confused about it here, though. Chapter Eighteen: Making Up Is Hard to Do This sounds like the title to a really bad love ballad from like the 80s. There's synth harp in the background. Kelsey and Kishan look around for the mysterious voice  Ren's voice, and they see him standing on the roof of the deck. Ominously. He growls at them (because of course he does) and jumps down to their level. He descended from above dressed ...

Hello, and welcome back to our irregularly scheduled nonsense! Very irregularly scheduled in this case. Sorry about that. Last time, Kelsey & Co. battled a kraken who'd somehow gotten displaced into Chinese mythology and passed the blue dragon's test (which, granted was actually a test in this book, so points for that). This time, Houck apparently gets bored of the amnesia subplot she's been milking for the first two-thirds of the book. So look forward to some more Relationship Drama for the foreseeable future. Chapter Seventeen: Remembering So, uh, spoilers in that chapter title, I guess. We open up right where we left off, with Ren and Kishan heading back downstairs in the dragon's tower. Kelsey's leg is injured from the kraken fight, so Kishan insists on carrying her downstairs like an infant over her protests. If Kishan's refusal to listen to Kelsey surprises you, you really haven't been paying attention. Kelsey isn't happy about gett...

Hello!  *Looks at calender* Uh, sorry for the long delay in posting. I now emerge from my finals cocoon, ready to completely forget everything I just spent all semester learning. And what better way to do that than read some more of my new favorite book,  Moon People ? In the last installment of  Moon People , we started our dive into author Dale M. Courtney's incoherent ramblings and inability to understand what a paragraph is.  He also seems to think that an introduction is supposed to explain the entire plot, which makes no sense. Well, one of the things we didn't get to touch on last time is that sweet, sweet dialogue.  Now I've made fun of Houck's dialogue in the  Tiger's Curse  series, and I'm not exactly the best at writing dialogue myself, but at least Houck and I know how quotation marks work. Before I get started with the book itself, I did some sleuthing about who the hell Dale M. Courtney is, and I stumbled across his Facebook page. O...