Lynn Viehl twists a tale mixing paranormal, romance and steampunk in Disenchanted & Co., the first in her new series. Viehl creates a neat alternate reality where America lost the Revolutionary War and despite being past WW1, is still in a Victorian state of development. This setting makes the world […]
Scientific exploration abounds in James Cambias’s A Darkling Sea. With a clash of intricate alien races, Cambias brings wonder and imagination to a scientific expedition. The setting is beautifully foreign as the underwater world is thirty light years from Earth. Cambias gives us a neat tale of curiosity and survival. On […]
Christopher Golden brings us a horror book, which makes a chilly draft ominous in Snowblind. It has been a long time since I read a book which was as gripping and realistic as this. Golden entwines everyday caution with a sinister enemy which plays at everyone’s inner securities. The entire […]
Jaye Wells brings a gritty side to Urban Fantasy in Dirty Magic, the first installment of the new Prospero Wars series. With a down and dirty attitude, Wells brings to life a world of an inner city cop who knows all too well what the other side of the tracks […]
Peter Clines brings us the latest installment of his Ex series in Ex-Purgatory. With a thrilling setting of post apocalypse Los Angeles, Clines brings to life a world full of geek mashups- most notably mixing zombies with The Matrix. Clines delivers an interesting read with a quest that is unexpected. […]
The journey is everything in Jon F. Merz’s The Undead Hordes of Kangul. A starter to the new Shadow Warrior series, there is something classically charming within. Merz creates a world that feels familiar, like a classic warrior or fairy tale. These classic elements such as a damsel in distress […]
Intrigue abounds in A Study in Darkness, the second installment of Emma Jane Holloway’s Baskerville Affair Trilogy. Picking up several months after A Study in Silks , the story plays out like a true sophomore entry. While not as thrilling or as creative as the first, Holloway contrasted the prior society […]
Lynn Kurland brings a new entry into her Nine Kindoms series in River of Dreams. Though this was my first foray into Kurland’s writing, I dived right in. Unfortunately, I was simply left wondering how she became such a popular author. With little to hold my interest, I found River […]
Tony Ballantyne weaves together a fantastical world in Dream London. Once you start reading. you are instantly transported to a land of make believe. Ballantyne creates a world where nothing is quite as it seems and the reader is simply along for the ride. The curiosity which Ballantyne inspires is […]
Ellen Larson tells a science fiction tale with In Retrospect. There is something utterly eerie about Larson’s story and how it unfolds. The backstory truly shines and creates an Earth that is as different from our own as night and day. The society which Larson designs is full of mystery, […]
Copyright © 2024 | WordPress Theme by MH Themes