User Profile

emmadilemma

emmadilemma@ramblingreaders.org

Joined 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Returning here from a jaunt on an apparently down-for-the-third-time instance. Recent reviews were there and possibly lost; see this local list for a rundown of top recent reads: ramblingreaders.org/list/256/s/top-recents what's in it? mostly sapphic·witch·romance (pick two) and climate paranoia

This link opens in a pop-up window

emmadilemma's books

Currently Reading

Abby Denson: Cool Japan guide (2014) 4 stars

Travelling to Japan has never been so much fun-- visit the land of anime, manga, …

Insightful in a graphic-novel way

4 stars

A Japan tourism overview in comic book style, in many instances being more informative than words alone could— like showing you how to use a JR rail pass, what foods you may encounter, and what toilets you may face. As it's from 2014, some particulars may have changed, but overall much more than it may seem from the cover.

Lana Harper: Payback's a Witch (2021, Penguin Publishing Group) 4 stars

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina meets The L Word in this fresh, sizzling rom-com by Lana …

A fine fall romance

4 stars

A fine witchy romance for the season, one in which the main character questions her full identity, having fled her stifling small town to be a (less powerful) City Witch, and faces a powerful attraction to someone from a rival family with darker powers.

In the manner of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, the magic here is parlor tricks and the points don't matter. Serious magic-heads who grumbled when authors just ripped off literal Latin words for spell names will be disappointed here. The whole concept of the town is magic as stage show, and the town competition is magic as Family Feud. The power of the story comes from the dangerous but irresistible attraction of the main couple, from light and dark magic families, and from the sinister magical caste system of the town, which low-caste Emmy had spent her adult life trying to flee.