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Ariel by Steven R. Boyett
Despite a couple of important plot elements dating the novel, the story itself holds up 25 years later and worked on a very powerful and emotional level for me. Included is an afterword reflecting on the book and some insight to the novel. One thing that is remarkable about the novel [...]
about 8 months ago - 1 comment
Keeper of Light and Dust by Natasha Mostert
How to describe Natasha Mostert’s Keeper of Light and Dust? The concept of chi, though rooted in ancient lore, is clearly fantastical when used to kill others to thus sustain a vampiric eternal youth. But when I think of “fantasy,†no matter the subgenre, I can recall nothing [...]
about 9 months ago - 1 comment
The Garbage Man by Joseph D’Lacey
The story begins in a town called Shreve, on a moonlit midsummer night. Two of Shreve’s residents are meeting secretly to perform a ritual understood by just one of them and resented by the other. There’s Agatha, a young woman who can’t wait to leave Shreve behind for better things. [...]
about 9 months ago - 1 comment
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
When I picked Little Brother back up a few days later, the next 300+ pages were devoured in one sitting. Having established a high level of trust with Marcus and specifically with his ability to bring me along on Marcus’s journey, Doctorow proceeds to craft a thrilling race against the powers [...]
about 11 months ago - 1 comment
Prador Moon: A Novel Of The Polity by Neal Asher
Asher is trying to tell a very big story in such a slim volume but at no point do you feel short changed. It’s pack with titbits that I’m hoping will be pulled and explored at in other stories.
At the heart of Prador Moon is the [...]
about 11 months ago - No comments
Beat the Reaper: A Novel by Josh Bazell
Stunning debuts like Beat the Reaper do one thing—leave you wanting more. Like a kid stomping his foot, impatiently. More Pietro Brwna, more streetwise dialogue, more intense, heart-stopping action. More Josh Bazell. After this gem, people will be eagerly anticipating Bazell’s next novel. I know—I’m one of them. [...]
about 11 months ago - No comments
Killer Tease by Danny Hogan
Killer Tease is real pulp fiction, a penny dreadful with a weird menace heart. It’s a sledgehammer to the guts, bludgeoning your squishy insides until you submit to its charms. Eloise’s brutal and ugly temperament drives the narrative. She’s a caveman in the modern world. A malicious weed in a rotten [...]
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
‘Real life’ is certainly a term that can be applied to the events of ‘The Mystic Arts’. Shit happens and it often happens in a completely random way that no-one could have possibly foreseen. It’s like a comedy of errors but with the comedy [...]
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card
Yes, Card does have his heart in his Ender stories to a degree beyond anything else he’s written, save perhaps for the early Alvin Maker novels. I’m not sure that Ender in Exile is a story that desperately needed to be told. But now that it has, I can [...]
about 1 year ago - No comments
Delia’s Heart (The Delia Series) by V.C. Andrews
After living in the United States for a few years (see DELIA’S CROSSING), poor Mexican girl Delia Yebarra still feels like a stranger in a strange land. She returned to her homeland briefly with Ignacio Davila after his role on the death of the person who raped Delia [...]
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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
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