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Melnicer, Sharon: The English assignment (1990’s)
On the Tuesday morning following Labour Day, rather than listening for the 8:50 bell to ring, I will be casually chatting over a steaming cup of sweet, frothy something with a close friend and former...
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Green, Dominic: Saucerers and Gondoliers (Ant & Cleo 1) (2008)
It was the cover that lured me in. Sometimes I am lucky and the cover actually presages the contents. Dominic Green‘s Ant & Cleo series is as well-written and ridiculous as only British humor can...
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Lynn, Elizabeth A.: Watchtower (Chronicles of Tornor I) (1979)
“Tornor Keep was dead and burning. Ryke’s face was soot-stained, and his wrists were skinned raw where he had torn them twisting in his chains. His head ached.” From this moment we are in the company...
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Ford, Jeffrey: The Shadow Year, 2008
The Shadow Year begins and ends with Mr. Softee, the ice-cream man. At the beginning of the story our narrator, and main character, is “listening carefully for that mournful knell, each measured ding...
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Pierce, Tamora: Wild Magic (The Immortals I) (1992)
Wild Magic is the first book in The Immortals four book series. It can be read alone or with the other three. The setting is in Tortall. In the world of Tortall and its neighboring countries, magic is...
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Flynn, Sabrina; A Bitter Draught (Ravenwood Mysteries II) (2015)
I have followed Sabrina Flynn‘s writing since her début novel. It simply does not do her justice to say that her writing has improved immensely. That she happens to throw in important issues as well,...
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Hernandez, Jessica: Capering on Glass Bridges (Hawk of Stone I)
On Fiaru Island, in the Kingdom of Greylandia, on the world Acu lives the Stone family. We first meet them at the Pairing ceremony of the youngest daughter. Meeting your canonipom and bonding with it...
View ArticleDavis, Milton & Ojetade, Balogun (ed); Steamfunk! (2013)
Steamfunk! is my first encounter with the genre. Like all anthologies I have ever read, some of the stories appealed to me while others did not. No wonder really, considering the span of genres....
View ArticleMawson, L.C.: Hunt (Freya Snow 1) (2015)
There was nothing for Amber to fear in this fight; the ghost was already dead. Amber is essential to the story of Freya Snow, a girl who was born right before her mother died. Lily bound Amber to Freya...
View ArticleDennard, Susan; Truthwitch (Witchlands I); London, Tor, 2016
Ultimately all stories (real-life or fiction) seem to be power. Mainly the power to control ones own and/or other people’s lives. Sometimes that includes war between nations on the pretext of one...
View ArticleMy review of West of the Pecos by Zane Grey
As some of you know, I have a blog dedicated to Zane Grey. He published action romance novels in the early 1900’s. West of the Pecos; New York, The American Magazine, 1931 18Feb Illustrated by Frank...
View ArticleLee & Miller; Agent of Change (1988)
Predictions about how future technology might look when one is bound by the limitations of current technology or the imagination of engineers is one of the things that makes reading science fiction...
View ArticleBraden, Jill (2013). The Devil’s Concubine. Wayzgoose Press
With “The Devil’s Concubine” Braden blows a breath of fresh air into fantasy literature that seems swamped with poorly edited stories. I am having a difficult time trying to find fault with it. You...
View ArticleBraden, J. (2013). The Devil Incarnate (The Devil of Ponong II). Wayzgoose...
As I’m sure you noticed, I loved “The Devil’s Concubine“. Braden begins the second installment of “The Devil of Ponong” series with this sentence: The morning QuiTai awoke completely sane, she knew...
View ArticleHarper, T.K. (1990) Wolfwalker, New York: Ballantine.
It was dark, and she could not see. She could not hear for the roaring in her ears, and she could not move. Oh, moons of mercy, moons of light… She tried to spit out the panic but choked on grit and...
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