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The Lit Bitch has entered the 2012 Dystopian Literature Reading Challenge

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Challenge #3 has been entered, the Dystopian Literature Reading Challenge hosted by one of my fav book bloggers, Bookish Ardour!

Though I am not a HUGE dystopian lit fan, I am dying for an excuse to read The Hunger Games so I know they are more dystopian in nature so I thought this would be a good excuse to read them…..though I am not entirely sure what I will read as my last 2 books but we shall see :).

As noted previously, I will be posting my entries over the next few weeks for various challenges here and I will also have a special page/section devoted to my entries which will have lists of books I plan on reading.

As per usual I’ll post my reviews throughout the year and add the buttons on my sidebars.

So here is the third challenge sign up of 2012: the Dystopian Literature Challenge hosted by Bookish Ardour. For more details about my entry and goals please see my the Dystopian Literature Reading Challenge 2012 page.

If you are interested in signing up or for more details about the challenge it self, please visit the Bookish Ardour blog.

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The Lit Bitch has entered the 2012 Regency & Victorian Reads Challenge

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Reading challenge #2 for 2012 has been entered!

As I mentioned before in my other post, over the next couple of weeks I’ll be posting my entries for various challenges here as I sign up and I will also have a special page/section devoted to my entries which will have lists of books I plan on reading.

As per usual I’ll post my reviews throughout the year and add the buttons on my sidebars.

So here is the second challenge sign up of 2012: the Regency & Victorian Reads Challenge hosted by The Royal Reviews. For more details about my entry and goals please see my the Regency & Victorian Reads Challenge

If you are interested in signing up or for more details about the challenge it self, please visit the Royal Reviews blog.

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The Lit Bitch has entered the 2012 Historic Fiction Reading Challenge

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It’s that time of year again, reading challenge time! I can hardly believe it!

Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be posting my entries for various challenges here as I sign up and I will also have a special page/section devoted to my entries which will have lists of books I plan on reading.

As per usual I’ll post my reviews throughout the year and add the buttons on my sidebars.

So here is the first challenge sign up of 2012: the Historic Fiction Reading Challenge hosted by Historical Tapestry. For more details about my entry and goals please see my the Historic Fiction Reading Challenge 2012 page.

If you are interested in signing up or for more details about the challenge it self, please visit the Historic Tapestry blog.

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Review: Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices #2) by Cassandra Clare

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Lies. Betrayal. Danger. Deception. Anger. Adventure. Passion. Love. All of which await eager readers in Cassandra Clare’s latest installment of The Infernal Devices, Clockwork Prince. Clare flawlessly blends action, sci-fi/fantasy, YA, pararomance, and steampunk together magically.

While romance is a huge part of this latest book, it does not over power the adventure. For me, other YA sagas such as Twilight, the love story overpowered the action and adventure, especially in the second book making it less enjoyable but in this series….there was a delicate balance which made it exceptionally hard to put down!

In the midst of all the YA romance there is a richly satisfying mystery and adventure. Tales or betrayal, lies, deception, and unrequited love all cloak this book in a silky velvet darkness that  fully encompasses all the characters and plot not just a singular aspect of the story.  Add in the clockwork angels, automatons, and steam powered inventions and you have one perfectly constructed Steampunk novel! Continue reading “Review: Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices #2) by Cassandra Clare” →

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Review: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

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What would you do if you had a face that could literally stop time? Or if you could really clone yourself? How about meet and greet your fav literary character? In the world of SpecOps and LiteraTec (Literary Detective division) extrodinaire, Thursday Next, all of these things are possible.

My sister recommended the book, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, to me a few weeks back…and now that she wants to commandeer the book from me, I figured I better get a move on since she will be wanting it by Christmas no doubt.

This speculative fiction book is a hodge-podge mixture of sci-fi, fantasy, time travel, YA, mystery/detective novel, steampunk, and vampire/werewolf fiction all in one…and the best part, it’s all based on classic British Literature. Set in 1985 Great Britain, detective Thursday Next (a Crimean War vet) is living in an alternative universe where time travel (among many things) are all possible.

Next is sent to investigate a puzzling case, someone has taken Charles Dickens’s original manuscript for Martin Chuzzlewit. The LiteraTec task force suspects notorious mass murderer and thief Acheron Hades…except there is one problem, no one knows what he looks like except Next. Continue reading “Review: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde” →