Science fiction and fantasy books of all sorts – from the Lord of the Rings to Kate Daniels and everything in between
The highly entertaining romp continues… At the end of the first book in Beth Revis’ Chaotic Orbits series, Full Speed to a Crash Landing, we find out that protagonist Ada Lamarr is a galaxy-level expert in misdirection and dissimulation. And Ada’s somewhat illicit skills continue to get a mad – and highly entertaining – workout […]
A review of How to Steal a Galaxy by Beth Revis – just published Read More »
A fun full-length space opera with a few serious moments… Only Cold Depths is the fourth in Jennifer Estep’s Galactic Bonds series, and it follows close on the heels of the previous novella, Only Hard Problems – both in “real time” (only a few months separate their publication dates) and in “book time”. And Cold
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One of my absolute favorite books of the year… As you can tell from the title of my blog, I mostly read mysteries. But I do dabble a bit in other genres, and when the publisher offered me a review copy of Ann Liang’s A Song to Drown Rivers, it looked intriguing. So I grabbed
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Over the Woodward Wall is the first in the Up-and-Under series by by A. Deborah Baker, which is a pen name for Seanan McGuire, whose October Daye series I’ve read and really liked. And it’s free right now in the US. Free (for now) at Kindle US | Kobo US And the second book in
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I’m still in love with Murderbot… I started the Murderbot Diaries series with Fugitive Telemetry, which was, back then, the latest book in the series. But I fell in love with Murderbot anyway, even though starting at the end can be problematic. However, having started with Fugitive Telemetry, which really WAS a murder mystery set
A review of System Collapse by Martha Wells Read More »
Make sure you read the footnotes at the end… It feels a bit odd to be saying “make sure you read the footnotes” when talking about a space opera, since I, at least, tend to think of footnotes as dull comments, usually in print that is too small to read, found at the end of
Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis is coming August 6 – a review Read More »
Just buy it and read it – you’ll love it… Sanctuary opens humorously, with mysteriously missing Christmas cookies and eggnog. Although the protagonist, Roman, explains to us in detail why Santa can’t exist, perhaps he really does, and has made an unexpected visit? (Sadly for St. Nick fans, the explanation is more prosaic…) Things escalate
A review of Sanctuary by Ilona Andrews – coming soon Read More »
A wild and enjoyable trip… I loved Elizabeth Hunter’s Cambio Springs series, and have now started reading and enjoying some of her Elemental Universe books. So when I got a chance to skip to the most recent Elemental book, via a review copy of Tin God, I jumped on it. Tin God is described as
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Lots of fun, but the ending is way too abrupt… Only Hard Problems is the third “book” in Jennifer Estep’s Galactic Bonds series, written from the point of view of one of the previous apparent villains, Zane Zimmer. And it is a lot of fun to get into Zane’s head, and find out he’s much
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Over the past year or so, Jessie Mihalik made her readers happy by offering a couple of short fantasy/romance stories for free on her website: Books & Broadswords in early 2023, and then later, in early 2024, Rocks & Rapiers. These were web-serials, both set in the same world, but not really linked other than
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