Chelsey’s Blog
A Court of Mist and Fury: Ramblings
Me on the inside reading ACOMAF For the entire book. Tamlin to Tool (spoilers below) First of all: fucking Tamlin. I love looking at the story from Tamlin’s unreliable perspective. In TamlinR...
I Hate YA Romance (But I’m Also a Liar)
Eww. Gross. Yucky. I hate romance in YA and have since I was old enough to recognise that cliches were the buns around every YA burger. I was probably 14. Now, I’m not talking about pure romance...
BEA & BookCon 2016: A Review
Once again BEA was awesome. So many books and so many amazing authors I really don’t know how to contain my internal shrieking with joy. I got enough of book utopia that I can now hold out until...
BEA: A Brief Survival Guide
Looking at the schedule for BEA every year, it’s very easy to get overwhelmed. There are people everywhere – industry professionals, authors, bloggers, marketers, publicists, book buyers, ...
Chelsey talks The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever
The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever (TGZME) is a story about three friends who decide that they want to make... can you guess... the greatest zombie movie ever. I bet you could never have called that on...
The Joint Evolution of Mass Effect and Dragon Age
As a giant fan of the Dragon Age franchise, and a fantasy buff, I looked at Mass Effect with a bit of suspicion. I like sci-fi and all, but if you gave me the option of hunting down Darkspawn in the D...
A Few Thoughts on Sharkarian
Goddamit I didn’t think I’d end up writing this. I don’t usually obsess over couples in fiction. I am not a practised shipper, but SHAKARIAN. I can’t, my heart might actually explode. I did a bad, bad...
Life and Death
Confession time. I haven’t managed to make myself read the last 25% of Life and Death. I fully intend to one day when I am bored as hell and trapped on a subway with nothing else loaded on my iP...
Top Reads of 2015
2016 is fast approaching, so that means it’s time to celebrate all the amazing that 2015 gave us! Here is a list of the top 10 books we read this year! Happy New Year! Check out some of our reviews of...
5 Kickin’ Literary Podcast Episodes
Confession Time: podcasts are my new media lord and master. I started listening to them when I realized how slow an office job could be and I have been slowly expanding my list of shows ever since. Ni...
Princess Diaries XI: Royal Wedding
Shit. When did I get old? Or at least, that is the overwhelming thought that overtakes me as I start Royal Wedding aka the bazillionth 11th book in the Princess Diaries series. God, it brings me back....
The BEA Awards
I know what heaven looks like. We did it. We came back from BEA/Book Con alive and untrampled by hoards of reading superfans. We had to make the long journey from Toronto to New York, NY but we surviv...
2015 Teen Fiction Movies
Less than last year, but it looks like they are going to be top notch teen fiction movies! (Wot wot) It looks like they finally figured out how to adapt the pseudo-genre right! Teen fiction adaptation...
TIBF: Book Fair Comes to Toronto
Finally, some luck of all of us Canadians. A few months ago it was announced that a new book convention, in the form of the Toronto International Book Fair (TIBF), will be arriving this year. For all ...
Mortality in Pages
I came to the startling realisation the other day: I can never read every book in the world. It’s the definition of impossible. I can never even read every book I’ve ever wanted to read. I could quit...