Category Archives: Book reviews
Overboard by Sara Paretsky
Read February 2023 Recommended for fans of PI mysteries ★ ★ ★ ★ f V.I. Warshawski and I have been together for a long time. How long? I’d say that I finally discovered her in the 1990s, when … Continue reading
Dead Country by Max Gladstone
Read February 2023 Recommended for fans of The Craft sequence, fantasy ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Leave it to Gladstone to make a liar out of me. I’ve been saying for a few years now that “I don’t really … Continue reading
The Monks of Appalling Dreadfulness. If by ‘appalling,’ you mean ‘hysterical.’
Read February 2023 Recommended for fans footnotes, The Gates, dry humor ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Appalling amounts of fun. I giggled most of the way through it, and despite the brevity, it would have been five stars if … Continue reading
The Stone in the Skull by Elizabeth Bear
Abandoned February 2023 Recommended for fans of purple prose I like Elizabeth Bear, but I’m discovering that I like her in the same way I like lilies: in small doses and from a distance. She does elaborate things with language … Continue reading
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
Read January 2023 Recommended for fans of stories ★ ★ ★ ★ Once upon a time Nghi Vo wrote a series of novellas about Cleric Chih, who collects stories as part of their life’s work. In this particular … Continue reading
Sargasso of Space by Andrew North–excuse me–Andre Norton
Read February 2023 Recommended for fans of Star Trek OG ★ ★ ★ Cheesy fun, utterly forgettable, and if it wasn’t Andre Norton, I likely would have passed, based on time period and cover alone. Or mocked it. … Continue reading
Magic Mourns by Ilona Andrews. No mourning here.
Read February 2023 Recommended for fans of Kate Daniels ★ ★ ★ ★ The recent release of the novella Magic Tides has me revisiting some of the books in the Kate Daniels world. Not all of them, mind you; though … Continue reading
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Read January 2023 Recommended for fans of Pratchett, MMOG ★ ★ ★ 1/2 It all depends on your definition of ‘cosy,’ I suppose. I’ve been wrapping up George Saunders’ A Swim In a Pond In the Rain, in which … Continue reading
Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews
Read January 2023 Recommended for Andrews fans ★ ★ ★ ★ Checked email at 10 pm, discovered preorder receipt, downloaded book and finished by 1 a.m. Fun; a return to good, old-fashioned Andrews fun. Kate and Curran … Continue reading