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You’ve got a great idea for a book and you’re raring to go. You’re sure it will become a best-seller. You start to fantasize about the great jacket blurbs you’re going to get, and whom you will thank in your Oscar acceptance speech for Best Adapted Screenplay (you resolve to remember to thank both the [...]
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The Stormcaller: Book One of the Twilight Reign by Tom Lloyd
The story shows you things which seems familiar on first sight but you discover soon that they are different. Gods, immortals, vampires, elves, trolls and human beings are an unusual mix.
But it works fine and none of these beings appear as you are used to [...]
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Nyphron Rising: The Riyria Revelations (Volume 3) by Michael J Sullivan
Nyphron Rising is the third book in Sullivan’s Riyria Revelations following both The Crown Conspiracy and Avempartha. The first novels set the bar rather high and I’m happy to report that Nyphron Rising manages to live up to its predecessors in just about every respect [...]
about 1 month ago - 1 comment
Horns by Joe Hill
This is a super parable supernatural thriller that looks deep at the dark side of humanity in which faith is not enough. Ig is a terrific antihero as he recognizes the devil’s team cannot be the hero regardless since legend means more than good deeds. The support cast, especially the deceased Merrin, [...]
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Iorich (Vlad) by Steven Brust
House Jhereg, Dragaera’s organized crime syndicate, is still hunting Vlad Taltos. There’s a big price on his head on Draegara City. Then he hears disturbing news. Aliera–longtime friend, sometime ally–has been arrested by the Empire on a charge of practicing elder sorcery, a capital crime.
It doesn’t make sense. Everybody knows Aliera’s [...]
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Weird year, but read some great books. Here is a few of them, in no particular order other than the order I remember them in….
Castaways by Brian Keene
A fitting tribute to Richard Laymon. Very enjoyable quick read. Can’t get enough of Brian Keene!
Deadlock (John Hutchinson, Book 2) by Robert Liparulo
Fault Line: A Novel [...]
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Altar of Eden by James Rollins
This is a fast-paced thriller that modernizes Dr. Moreau using recent current events including the Iraq War and genetic breakthroughs; but the key is like HG Wells did, James Rollins makes the bad guys and altered animals especially the one that got away three dimensional and intelligent. The lead couple [...]
about 8 months ago - 1 comment
Afraid by Jack Kilborn
The strength of the novel is its ability to envelope the reader with its pacing, action, and terror. The bad guys are worse than one can imagine, and the good guys are seemingly doomed without hope of redemption or rescue. It is reminiscent of 1980s and 1990s Dean Koontz—it particularly reminded me [...]
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City without End (Entire and the Rose, Book 3) by Kay Kenyon
Lush, captivating and entrancing – City Without End is both a solid novel on its own and a great furthering of the story Kenyon is telling in this saga. There was a strong sense of closure upon the conclusion of the volume, but the [...]
about 8 months ago - 1 comment
Tides From the New Worlds by Tobias Buckell
In Tides from the New Worlds, Tobias Buckell does what the best SF/F writers do: tells stories that touch our minds with wonder and endow our hearts with perception. Reading this collection, for those of us culture-bound West or East, brings science fiction and fantasy to a fresh [...]
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