{"id":269,"date":"2012-01-28T17:13:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T01:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harperkingsley.wordpress.com\/?page_id=269"},"modified":"2012-01-28T17:13:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T01:13:26","slug":"reviews-books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/reviews\/reviews-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews: Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love to read and I&#8217;ve read a lot over the years. I don&#8217;t exactly feel comfortable reviewing books I haven&#8217;t read in a long time, but if you ask me about a book, I could probably give you a &#8220;Hated it&#8221; or a &#8220;Loved it&#8221; and a good reason why.<\/p>\n<p>I will attempt to write more reviews in the future. Why? Because it&#8217;s the thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/the-missing-butterfly-by-megan-derr\/\">The Missing Butterfly, by Megan Derr<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Title: The Missing Butterfly\nAuthor: Megan Derr\nGenre: mm rockstar\nNotes: 143 ebook pages\nWebsite: Less Than Three Press\nSummary: Cassidy Monarch had dreams\u2014to sing, to be famous, to tour the world at the head of his own rock band. Then his parents were killed in a tragic accident, leaving him to raise his two siblings. Determined to hold on ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/book-review-white-dragon-manga-action-adventure\/\">White Dragon [manga, action-adventure]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">White Dragon\nAuthor: Wada Shinji\nArtist: Kinutani Yu\nSummary borrowed from OurManga: Pursued by the mob, a young child seeks the protection of White Dragon, an assassin with the ability to morph into male or female, and kills by using&#8230; water&#8230;\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-\nThe sad thing is that I never got to finish this, but I did read some of the ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/book-review-alone-in-my-kings-harem-by-lily-hoshino-japanese-manga-shounen-ai-mm\/\">Alone In My King&#8217;s Harem, by Lily Hoshino [Japanese manga, shounen-ai, m\/m]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Alone In My King&#8217;s Harem\nAuthor: Lily Hoshino\nReleased by: Digital Manga\nSummary borrowed from Wikipedia: Alone in My King&#8217;s Harem (\u30cf\u30ec\u30e0\u3067\u3072\u3068\u308a Haremu de Hitori) is a 2004 manga by Hoshino Lily. One of the first titles released by Digital Manga Publishing. Alone in My King&#8217;s Harem is composed of six stories, with only the last two stories ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/just-read-an-awful-book\/\">Just read an awful book<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">I&#8217;m not going to name any names, but I just read the most boring and lackluster romance story I have ever had the displeasure of coming across. Not because it was badly written or anything, but because it had so much potential. There was all this build up, then nothing happened. Then there was the ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/book-review-merchanters-luck-by-c-j-cherryh\/\">Merchanter&#8217;s Luck, by C.J. Cherryh<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Title: Merchanter&#8217;s Luck (Company Wars, #2) Author:&nbsp;C.J. Cherryh Genre:&nbsp;sci-fi Summary: The fateful meeting between the owner of a tramp star-freighter that flies the Union planets under false papers and fake names and a proud but junior member of a powerful starship-owning family leads to a record-breaking race to Downbelow Station&#8211;and a terrifying showdown at a ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/book-review-exquisite-corpse-by-poppy-z-brite-horror\/\">Exquisite Corpse, by Poppy Z Brite [horror]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Title: Exquisite Corpse\nAuthor: Poppy Z. Brite\nGenre: horror, serial killer\nSummary: After escaping prison, serial killer Andrew Compton heads for New Orleans to pursue the art of what he calls &#8220;the art of killing boys.&#8221; He joins up with a dissolute playboy who has pushed his art to limits even Compton hadn&#8217;t imagined. Together they set their ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/review-mpd-psycho\/\">MPD Psycho, by Eiji Otsuka [manga, serial killer]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Title: MPD Psycho\nAuthor: Eiji Otsuka\nGenre: manga, horror, serial killers\nSummary: In MPD-Psycho Volume 1, police detective Kobayashi Yousuke&#8217;s life is changed forever after a serial killer notices something &#8220;special&#8221; about him. That same killer mutilates Kobayashi&#8217;s wife and kick-starts a &#8220;multiple personality battle&#8221; within Kobayashi that pushes him into a complex tempest of interconnected deviants and ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/goodreads-harper-kingsley-the-united-statess-review-of-plastic-jesus\/\">Plastic Jesus, by Poppy Z. Brite<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Title: Plastic Jesus\nAuthor: Poppy Z. Brite\nGenre: faux-biofic, mm romance\nSummary: The 1960&#8217;s brought Seth and Payton all they&#8217;d fantasized about&#8211;perfect friendships, a successful four-man band, and most importantly, each other. Together they embarked on a tour that brought them stimulating highs and shattering lows, and they prospered and suffered in one another&#8217;s arms. The two men ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/book-review-dressing-up-by-todd-young\/\">Dressing Up, by Todd Young<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Title: Dressing Up\nAuthor: Todd Young (I keep wanting to call him &#8220;Adam Young&#8221;)\nGenre: m\/m romance\/light erotica\nSummary: Skipper has just arrived at college on a football scholarship. The year kicks off with a costume party. Skipper ends up going as Tarzan, in an all too brief costume. At the party he meets Lake, but can Lake ...<\/div><\/li><\/ul><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/category\/reviews\/book-reviews\/\">Archive of book reviews<\/a>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>If you are an author and would like me to review your book, please contact me at HarperKingsley0.0 (at) gmail (dot) com. All I can promise is that I will write an <em>honest<\/em> review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love to read and I&#8217;ve read a lot over the years. I don&#8217;t exactly feel comfortable reviewing books I haven&#8217;t read in a long time, but if you ask me about a book, I could probably give you a &#8220;Hated it&#8221; or a &#8220;Loved it&#8221; and a good reason why. I will attempt to&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/reviews\/reviews-books\/\" title=\"Reviews: Books\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reviews: Books<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1002,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-nosidebar.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-269","page","type-page","status-publish"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2pPoL-4l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1002,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/reviews\/","url_meta":{"origin":269,"position":0},"title":"Reviews","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"June 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Movie and Television Reviews Book Reviews","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/reviews\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":265,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/reviews\/movie-reviews\/","url_meta":{"origin":269,"position":1},"title":"Reviews: TV and Movies","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"January 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"On occasion I go a bit crazy about writing TV\/movie reviews, so as they occur I thought I might share the links to my reviews. I'll try to keep everything up to date, but don't kill me if I fall behind. What I watch: action, adventure, biopics, comedy, fantasy, historical,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":18,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/biophage\/about\/","url_meta":{"origin":269,"position":2},"title":"About","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"May 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Contact-- twitter: @harperkingsley0 facebook: HarperKingsley goodreads: HarperKingsley public email: SolCrafter @ gmail (dot) com Micro-biography: Born in Washington State, I've lived in Nevada and Oklahoma, and am currently living in Washington again. I live with my Labrador retriever\/husky, Kahluah. 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