Impending site updates

Hi all,

Please be advised that as of January 1st, the primary domain for accessing my website is going to be flipped around from angelakorrati.com to angelahighland.com, to start laying the groundwork for my Carina Press release in April!

angelakorrati.com will also continue to work, but it’ll become a redirect to angelahighland.com. In other words, the exact opposite of how these domains work now–right now angelakorrati.com is the canonical URL, and angelahighland.com is the redirect.

On a related note, please also be advised that starting in 2013, quite a bit of content that I normally post to my annathepiper.org blog is going to start showing up here. This is because I’d like to emphasize this site, and demonstrate to visitors that I AM an active poster. If you’re following me via Livejournal or Dreamwidth, there will be no change in those mirror versions of my posts–they’ll still show up on those places the same way they are now. This’ll mostly just affect people who visit my WordPress blogs directly.

Any questions, do please let me know!

Mirrored from angelahighland.com.

Impending site updates

Hi all,

Please be advised that as of January 1st, the primary domain for accessing my website is going to be flipped around from angelakorrati.com to angelahighland.com, to start laying the groundwork for my Carina Press release in April!

angelakorrati.com will also continue to work, but it’ll become a redirect to angelahighland.com. In other words, the exact opposite of how these domains work now–right now angelakorrati.com is the canonical URL, and angelahighland.com is the redirect.

On a related note, please also be advised that starting in 2013, quite a bit of content that I normally post to my annathepiper.org blog is going to start showing up here. This is because I’d like to emphasize this site, and demonstrate to visitors that I AM an active poster. If you’re following me via Livejournal or Dreamwidth, there will be no change in those mirror versions of my posts–they’ll still show up on those places the same way they are now. This’ll mostly just affect people who visit my WordPress blogs directly.

Any questions, do please let me know!

Mirrored from angelahighland.com.

2012 Book Log #15: Cape Storm, by Rachel Caine

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

The second to last Weather Warden novel was one that it took me a bit to get to, on a couple of grounds. One, that one of the plot threads in it sounded like something we’d already seen happen earlier in the series. And two, that I’d started reaching a point of apocalypse fatigue with these books–we’d already had so many instances of the Wardens and the Djinn facing the Imminent! Destruction! Of! The! World! that reading another round of it just seemed like, well, work.

This is not to say that Caine’s writing has suffered, since as always, her pacing is crisp and tight. And once I got into this story, I did actually find it quite readable. But that said, the issue of this story covering several themes that have already appeared earlier in the series did remain–the antagonism between the Wardens and the Djinn, the rage of Mother Earth against humanity, the angst surrounding Jo marrying David, the angst surrounding the unresolved feelings Lewis has for Jo. And to top it off, we also have angst about Oh No! Jo has a Demon Mark and it might turn her EVIL!

All of these things were certainly engagingly and compellingly handled, but the sheer fact that we’ve seen them before takes a bit of the urgency away. Which is a shame, because if you’ve stuck with the series this far, it is still definitely worth continuing so you make it to the final book and get that resolution. But it would have been cooler to not retread ground we’ve been over before. Three stars.

Mirrored from annathepiper.org.