When Deshi Li’s brother dies unmarried, custom dictates that he must have a wife to keep him company in the afterlife — and it’s Deshi’s responsibility to find an eligible corpse before the funeral. Unfortunately the only girl Deshi can find is very much alive. Lily Chen thinks Deshi is her ticket out of a…
Category: Reading Challenge
Review: Déjà Dead
Dr. Temperance Brennan believes in justice, particularly for those who cannot speak for themselves. As the resident forensic anthropologist at Montreal’s Laboratorie de Médecine Légale, it’s her job to identify skeletal remains, giving them names and causes of death. When a set of neatly dismembered female remains is discovered stashed in plastic bags, Temperance uncovers…
Review: Froggy Style
Jean-Michel La Grenouille is handsome, disgustingly rich, and an actual hand-to-god prince, but he’s got a dirty little secret: he spent the first few years of his life as a frog. It was only a chance meeting with a hungry little girl that released him from his slimy prison. If Jean-Michael wants to keep his…
Announcing 2014 Reading Challenges
2013’s reading challenges went so well I’ve decided to tempt fate by tackling some again this year. I won’t be able to get an early start due to an insane Christmas schedule (moving in the cold is so lame), but I plan to hit the ground running come January 1. Here’s my 2014 challenges. Join…
2013 Reading Challenge Wrap-Up
While I was less than thrilled with my reading challenge attempts in 2011 and 2012, this year I’m writing for a different reason: I finished! 3/3 for the Reading Outside the Box challenge 12/12 for the Mount TBR challenge 1/1 for the Audio Book Challenge (plus several bonus “reads”!) I didn’t really expect to complete…