Black Rainbow

3.5 stars for me I'll admit it. I loved this book as a teenager and all those nostalgia-laced happy feelings color my reading of the book as an adult. So, even though the plotting and characterizations run somewhat to the WTF side, I lapped this book right up. Set in England in the waning days of the......more

While the author did a great job developing the mood and atmosphere, there wasn't much of a plot. Elements were introduced and never brought up again, leaving the story a bit threadbare and random. It was a struggle to finish.......more

One of her all-time wins! Creepy, unsettling, wild & feminist. One thing she does super effectively is convey how many abusive men feel very sorry for themselves.......more

I liked it because I didn't see where it was going until 2/3s of the way in. It reminded me of Greygallows.......more

Like a lot of reviewers have mentioned, with the exception of Jane (a distinctly pragmatic (read: unromantic) figure), the characters are by turns annoying or mystifying and some pretty important stuff happens off the page. Megan is dumb as rocks and morally ambiguous. Edmund is a total bro who woul......more