Comments for the Little Red Reviewer http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com Book Reviews: Scifi, Fantasy, and the stuff in between Sat, 25 May 2013 07:57:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on time spent on your Labor of Love by Writer Girl http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/time-spent-on-your-labor-of-love/#comment-8099 Sat, 25 May 2013 07:57:58 +0000 http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/?p=4364#comment-8099 On the tailend of a big week… I’d have to say I’d agree with you. Lol.

]]> Comment on War For the Oaks, by Emma Bull by nrlymrtl http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/war-for-the-oaks-by-emma-bull/#comment-8098 Fri, 24 May 2013 23:48:47 +0000 http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/?p=4388#comment-8098 She and Steven Brust played together, perhaps still do, so she is still on my Cool List even if I didn’t enjoy this book so much.

]]> Comment on War For the Oaks, by Emma Bull by Redhead http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/war-for-the-oaks-by-emma-bull/#comment-8097 Fri, 24 May 2013 21:17:05 +0000 http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/?p=4388#comment-8097 you can read the beginning on the bus and see if you like it, the steamy bits don’t show up till way later. ;)

]]> Comment on War For the Oaks, by Emma Bull by Two Dudes in an Attic http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/war-for-the-oaks-by-emma-bull/#comment-8096 Fri, 24 May 2013 17:10:41 +0000 http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/?p=4388#comment-8096 I think I have an e-copy of this that Tor.com randomly gave away some years ago. I tend to look at urban fantasy with a skeptical eye though, so I wonder if I would enjoy this. Your review may have intrigued me enough to check it out when other pressing commitments settle; we’ll have to see.
I may have to skim the steamy bits though, since I always read on a crowded rush-hour bus. :p

]]> Comment on War For the Oaks, by Emma Bull by Redhead http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/war-for-the-oaks-by-emma-bull/#comment-8095 Fri, 24 May 2013 14:59:26 +0000 http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/?p=4388#comment-8095 your secret is safe with me. and I plan on being a near-adult for the next 20 years, at least!

]]> Comment on War For the Oaks, by Emma Bull by Redhead http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/war-for-the-oaks-by-emma-bull/#comment-8094 Fri, 24 May 2013 14:57:36 +0000 http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/?p=4388#comment-8094 that all makes perfect sense. If the book had focused a kind of music I wasn’t familiar with, or say, took place in Florida or Texas or some other area I’m not familiar with, it wouldn’t have pulled me in one bit. As much as I loved Robert Jackson Bennett’s American Elsewhere, it takes place in a rural area, and I was like “what do you mean, there isn’t anything for miles? how can there not be anything?”. I’m used to small cities, or suburban areas.

I didn’t know all of the bands mentioned in the book, maybe half of them, but this is totally my kind of music! I’ve been to Minneapolis a few times (I have family in Minnesota), but I don’t know that city at all, so I had no idea if the places she mentioned were real places or not. but i’ve spent a lot of time in decent sized mid-west cities, so lots of the “city stuff” translated well for me.

]]> Comment on War For the Oaks, by Emma Bull by Redhead http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/war-for-the-oaks-by-emma-bull/#comment-8093 Fri, 24 May 2013 14:47:07 +0000 http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/?p=4388#comment-8093 it’s very different from Dresden Files, as in there’s no focus on solving a mystery, or using magic to learn something. This is more an adventure story, and you should really give it a try! :D

]]> Comment on War For the Oaks, by Emma Bull by Redhead http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/war-for-the-oaks-by-emma-bull/#comment-8092 Fri, 24 May 2013 14:46:22 +0000 http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/?p=4388#comment-8092 Charles DeLint was my introduction to UF, even though his is technically closer to magical realism, maybe? Yarrow, Greenmantle, those were my first novels of his, and I loved them. I think they came out within in a few years of War for the Oaks. Which Windling titles do you recommend? I have some anthologies she edited, but I don’t know that I’ve read any of her novels.

I’m SO happy there was no mention of romance at all on the back cover of War for the Oaks. I don’t mind romance, I don’t mind a few hot sex scenes, but I don’t usually go for stories where romance is the focus. Romance certainly isn’t the focus of War for the Oaks (Eddi don’t got time for that!), and it was very funny to me that OF COURSE the one day I’m reading this in public, I get to the hot sex scene!

]]> Comment on War For the Oaks, by Emma Bull by Redhead http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/war-for-the-oaks-by-emma-bull/#comment-8091 Fri, 24 May 2013 14:42:37 +0000 http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/?p=4388#comment-8091 I was surprised how hard it was to find a copy, I had to get it through interlibrary loan. Charles deLint books from around the same time are available everywhere, how come this one isn’t? Nothing against Charles deLint, he’s awesome, but how come this title is so under the radar?

]]> Comment on War For the Oaks, by Emma Bull by Redhead http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/war-for-the-oaks-by-emma-bull/#comment-8090 Fri, 24 May 2013 14:41:11 +0000 http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/?p=4388#comment-8090 yeah you do. You’d LOVE this one. or at least, I hope you will!

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