Book Review: The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl, Theodora Goss Fantasy:The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl, Theodora Goss If you have not read the two previous books in this series by Theodora Goss, stop. Find them, read them, and come back. Not because I will give away (too many) spoilers, but because […]
Recipe & Review: The Courtyard of the Others and The World of the Others, Anne Bishop The Courtyard of the Others: The foundation series featuring Meg Corbyn, for the best reading experience start with the first book Written in Red and follow the series order. The World of the Others: Series set in the Others […]
Book Review: Come Tumbling Down, Wayward Children Book 5, Seanan McGuire Fantasy: Come Tumbling Down, Wayward Children Book 5, Seanan McGuire We’ve met Jack and Jill before in the Wayward Children series. Born to parents who tried to mold their daughters into their ideal of the “perfect” child, they escaped by finding a doorway to […]
Book Review: Hollow Kingdom, Kira Jane Buxton Fantasy: Hollow Kingdom, Kira Jane Buxton I am not sure how to begin describing a book one person called a mash-up of The Incredible Journey and Dawn of the Dead. The apocalypse has come. Humanity is done. Over. Finito. Kaput. Good-bye, people. Hello, animals. S.T. is […]
Book Review: Borne, Borne Series, Book 1, Jeff Vandermeer Fantasy: Borne, Borne Series Book 1, Jeff Vandemeer Jeff Vandermeer may be a perfectly delightful and ordinary person, but his writing is as strange as it gets! The Southern Reach trilogy was a fantasy/sci fi amalgam that zigged and zagged in so many directions that […]
Book Review: Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo Fantasy: Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo Galaxy Stern grew up in a single parent household in LA. A troubled teen, she became involved with drugs and gangs until she ended up in the hospital. Police had found her unconscious in an apartment full of dead gangsters, lying beside a dead […]
Book Review: Steel Crow Saga, Paul Krueger Fantasy: Steel Crow Saga, Paul Krueger Steel Crow Saga has been described as Pokemon meets Last Airbender. I doubt I could come up with any description close to matching that. It is a wild fantasy ride through an Asia that shares certain cultural aspects with the continent […]
Book Review: Turning Darkness into Light, Marie Brennan Fantasy: Turning Darkness into Light, Marie Brennan Her grandmother is the renowned naturalist and explorer Lady Trent. Her grandfather, a famous linguist and philologist. Her father an oceanographer, her mother an astronomer. Audrey Camherst has a lot of family history to live up to. Stung by […]
Book Review: Within the Sanctuary of Wings, The Lady Trent Memoirs Book 5, Marie Brennan Fantasy: Within the Sanctuary of Wings, The Lady Trent Memoirs Book 5, Marie Brennan Isabella Camherst, aka Lady Trent, has traveled from the mountains to the desert and across the ocean to study dragons. Her discoveries, along with her colleague and friend Tom […]
