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Sorry for the huge post, but this is a wrap-up of the reading I’ve done through our Colorado winter (I can see the plants coming up, yah spring!). Soulless, by Gail Carriger (published by Orbit), is described as "a comedy of manners set in Victorian London," and "a novel of vampires, werewolves, and parasols." One […]
Category Archives: SF/F Books
Just my two cents on science fiction (SF) and fantasy novels/anthologies I’ve read. Sometimes I comment on the state of publishing SF and fantasy.
I like Jeanne Stein’s urban fantasy series, but she writes too fast. I’ve only finished book two and I just put book five on the pile. Richard Morgan’s premise and world in Altered Carbon sucked me in, but I ended up confused regarding the schemes and motivations of the villain. It’s difficult to confuse me […]
I was carried away by Liu’s The Iron Hunt, with engrossing world, characters, and story. An amazing concept, where the heroine’s tatoos are her armor-by-day, her demons-at-arms by night, as well as ageless beings that hold secrets about her role/fate/orders. One of them likes to gnaw on discarded cans; can you get any quirkier? Emissaries […]
Last month I ripped through the Omnibus edition that had the two precursor novels, Valor’s Choice and The Better Part of Valor. This month, I have my own novel #2 due at the end of the month plus the Pikes Peak Writers Conference workshops to finish — but that didn’t stop me from staying up […]
Important: this is an omnibus edition with two novels, Valor’s Choice and The Better Part of Valor. These are previously released novels, re-released in this omnibus edition. Some Amazon reviewers complained that this wasn’t made clear on the Amazon detail pages, so beware. In my case, I hadn’t read about Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr when […]
When I look into a new series and don’t have time to read every book, I usually ensure I read book #1 in addition to the book of interest. I didn’t do that this time, and I think my enjoyment of the story suffered for it. Kris Longknife is both a princess and a naval […]