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Darkness Calls By Marjorie M Liu
Darkness Calls is a good second book in a very promising series. It was not quite as good as Iron Hunt, but definitely still very good. I am impressed with this series so far. A little something different with the addition of an alien-esque quality (different creatures from different worlds [...]
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The Hob’s Bargain by Patricia Briggs
What I liked:
Usually fantasy novels are long and extremely detailed. This was a quick (281 pages), self contained story that I enjoyed very much. Aren is a strong woman in her own right. She doesn’t give up like many would when faced with such a tragedy. The creatures in this [...]
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Plague of Spells: Abolethic Sovereignty, Book I by Bruce R. Cordell
Plague of Spells is not a work without flaws and, for me at least, oscillated between frustrating and genuinely enthralling. The novel opens with the monk Raidon Kane as he returns home to his adopted daughter. The reader gets a brief introduction to the character, [...]
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Monster by A. Lee Martinez
And you’ve fallen down the rabbit hole—It’s a venture you won’t want to leave anytime soon. It’s got shades of Douglas Adams only it makes more sense. There are known monsters, there are unknown creations—there are fears, both real and imagined. There’s revenge, there’s the universe spinning on its axis. It’s [...]
about 11 months ago - 1 comment
The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett
The worldbuilding and the plot are perfectly blended together. I tend to think of demons as either spiritual beings, as rendered in the Bible, or as the red-skinned, horned creatures of the Doom games. Mr. Brett takes the latter approach, with a dash of the former. Demons–or corlings–rise up [...]
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Without Warning by John Birmingham
What we are left with is a somewhat trashy, although still enjoyable, techno-thriller with a batty premise. It’s all fun, but a bit on the forgettable side. This is a shame as the author’s previous work, the alternate-history Axis of Time trilogy, was much more successful in exploring its premise (if [...]
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
At the Mountains of Madness: The Definitive Edition by H.P. Lovecraft
Q: With regard to At the Mountains of Madness, I’d love to see you tackle H.P. Lovecraft in a way that hasn’t been done.
Del Toro: Me too. Me too. … Part of the arrangement with Universal–in being essentially [...]
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Castaways by Brian Keene
From award-winning author Brian Keene comes his long-awaited tribute to the master of horror, Richard Laymon.
They came to the deserted island to compete on a popular reality television show. Each one of them hoped to be the last to leave. Now, they’re just hoping to stay alive, because one of them isn’t [...]
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
The Living Dead edited by John Joseph Adams
What is surprising is how the contributing authors each spin their zombie stories and wind up with such a wide range of flavors. Pass along a single idea to 20 authors and you will get close to 20 non-overlapping takes on the theme. Not all of the stories [...]
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Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky
Narrated by Silvio, a man in his twilight years who feels “rejected by life, as if washed ashore by the tide”, the story that gradually unfolds pits the resignation of old age against youth’s “insatiable” heart, with its need “to love, to despair, to burn with any kind of [...]
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