This was a charming, if melancholy read. Set in a sort of steampunk Britain, very Victorian, with odd new countries, like Americanada and Neo-Gaul. Ben Braddock is a young man returned from the Great War and heralded as a hero for doing nothing more than surviving the final battle. He was impoverished before the draft and really has nothing to… Read more
Usually, when you stand in line at the ramen shop, you eventually open the door and you are greeted by the sounds and smells of the restaurant. You sit down at your table and you get your bowl of noodles. But sometimes – only sometimes – a patron opens the door of the ramen shop and instead finds themselves somewhere… Read more
I don’t think I’ve ever read a sequel that made me like the previous book less, but that’s what happened with Holmes is Missing by James Patterson. The first book, Holmes, Marple, and Poe had its flaws, but it was a decent mystery. I found it odd, as I was reading the second book, that its flaws made me see… Read more