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Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
The novel is in many ways a familiar YA construction: a hidden Prince, a disguised girl, both people who need to grow up and are being forced to do so in a dangerous situation. The book delights in part because both protagonists are nicely depicted and fun to follow and root for. [...]
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Burn Me Deadly: An Eddie LaCrosse Novel by Alex Bledsoe
“Burn Me Deadly” is the second book in a new series by Alex Bledsoe that features private investigator Eddie LaCrosse. Bledsoe takes my two favorite genres, fantasy and detective fiction, and mixes them up with highly entertaining results. In my review of The Sword Edged Blonde, [...]
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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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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 [...]
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Sleepless: A Novel by Charlie Huston
So Sleepless is an apocalyptic crime story plus many other pieces that all add up to literary fiction. Yes, this is a book that is both genre and literary (in spite of having a plot). It is very much a discussion on the human condition – it’s just that most [...]
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Hawkmoon: The Jewel in the Skull by Michael Moorcock
This is a fast-paced, action-packed reprint of a 1960s sword and sorcery thriller that holds up nicely though contains little insight into life under the Black Jewel sorcery rule as the plot is linear. The hero makes the story line work as he believes his ultimate abjection [...]
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Wings of Creation (The Silver Ship) by Brenda Cooper
Cooper explores what it means to be human by exploring what isn’t and in doing so does more to illuminate the human condition than any bit of “realistic” fiction ever could. However, I felt the story was overlong, dragging in the parts when Cooper pauses to have [...]
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Veracity by Laura Bynum
I think many of the problems I had with the novel were personal because I’m such a stickler for plausibility. Everyone has their own plausibility tolerance level. Obviously the author found it plausible and so did the many people it takes to get a book published these days, and so might you. [...]
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Sons of Dorn (Warhammer 40,000 Novels: Imperial Fists) by Chris Roberson
All in all, this is not a novel I can recommend with any sincerity. It starts well enough, though Roberson’s particular brand of prose doesn’t grab me personally, and then really seems to lose the plot with lackluster action scenes and poorly conceived attempts at [...]
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Kell’s Legend by Andy Remic
“Kell’s Legend” is a worthy praise offered to its source of inspiration, fully packed with action and fighting scenes and flavored with an amount of violence and gore that will put even some of the horror novels to shame. The pages fly past the reader, because Andy Remic sets a very [...]
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by Tom Rob Smith
about 8 months ago
Reading this right now, just around 300 pages into it and thus far I’m enjoying it. It’s not as strong as Child 44, but its still very enjoyable.