2 days ago · Culture · 0 comments

I have been waiting for this book for what seems *ages*, and I’m delighted to have gotten an ARC. Sleep, who needs sleep. Beware: suicide, classism, sexism; fairly detailed descriptions of a decomposing body; spoilers for previous A Rip Through Time books. An Ordinary Sort of Evil, by Kelley Armstrong By all rights, I should not enjoy the A Rip Through Time series at all: the stories are narrated in first person, present tense–which is extremely difficult to pull off, which is why I generally dislike it; and not only are you in the protagonist’s head for the entire book, everything is happening as you read it! And yet, here we are: I love the series, and the writing draws me deep into the world within a couple of sentences. As always, I recommend new readers start at the beginning, with the book that gives the series its name, so you can meet each character as Mallory does. However, if you prefer to jump right in with this, the fifth book in the series, the author has included a brief…

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