Head Rush (2012) is a perfect finale for THE DISILLUSIONISTS TRILOGY. The thing about Head Rush is that readers won’t read it to be surprised. You know how it’s going to end; you just don’t know the details. Carolyn Crane makes those details fun, and keeps Head Rush rather short and sweet, which is perfect for the series as a whole.
In fact, Crane seems to know exactly how long each book should be,
January 18th, 2018. Sarah Chorn´s rating: 4 | Carolyn Crane | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Here are some of the books we can’t wait for in 2018!
Hover over the covers to see what our reviewers said about each book.
Which books are you looking forward to in 2018? One commenter wins a book from our stacks.
January 18th, 2018. FanLit | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 54 comments |
Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher
Seventeen year old Bryony and her sisters, Holly and Iris (I’m sensing a horticultural theme here) were the daughters of a wealthy merchant who lost his fortune through risky investments three years earlier. They moved to the remote village of Lostfarthing, where the now-orphaned sisters are barely scraping by. Bryony, a dedicated and enthusiastic gardener, hears about some particularly hardy rutabaga seeds available in a nearby village, and sets off to get some. Unfortunately, on the way back she’s caught in a spring blizzard. She and her pony are nearly frozen when they come across an impossible road that leads to an equally improbable manor house in the forest.
January 18th, 2018. Tadiana Jones´s rating: 3.5 | T. Kingfisher | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
Markswoman, the 2018 debut from Rati Mehrotra, is mostly a YA fantasy novel with a post-apocalyptic Earth background and sci-fi elements sprinkled in for flair. It’s an ambitious undertaking, and though it doesn’t always succeed, the characters and their world are interesting and Mehrotra’s prose is compelling.
Kyra, an orphan newly initiated as a Markswoman in the Order of Kali, has spent the majority of her life training as an elite warrior and learning to wield her kalishium blade — a short sword which has telepathic abilities.
January 17th, 2018. Jana Nyman´s rating: 3 | Rati Mehrotra | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Star Scroll by Melanie Rawn
The Star Scroll (1989), the second novel in Melanie Rawn’s DRAGON PRINCE trilogy, picks up fourteen years after the end of the first novel, Dragon Prince. You’ll want to read Dragon Prince before starting The Star Scroll. This review will contain spoilers for Dragon Prince.
Life has been pretty easy for Prince Rohan,
January 17th, 2018. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Melanie Rawn | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation by Carolyn Cocca
In Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation, Carolyn Cocca turns a sharp eye on gender (along with race and class) in the world of superheroes, looking through the lens of several female heroes in particular. These are, in order:
January 16th, 2018. Bill Capossere´s rating: 4.5 | Non-fiction | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson
Another 2016 Nebula nominee today, this time for best Novella. A Taste of Honey (2016) is set in the same world as a previous work by Kai Ashante Wilson, The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, which I confess I have not read (it’s not necessary for the understanding of this story, though it may provide some useful background to the setting and its institutions).
At its heart,
January 16th, 2018. Katie Burton and Marion Deeds´s rating: 3, 4.5 | Kai Ashante Wilson | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Our weekly exploration of free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. As the jumping-off point for this week’s SHORTS column, we’re reviewing several of the stories mentioned in BookRiot’s January 4, 2018 column listing good places to read online short science fiction, which Marion Deeds noted in her January 10, 2018 WWWednesday column.
“Red in Tooth and Cog” by Cat Rambo (2016, audio and text free at EscapePod, originally published in Fantasy & Science Fiction)
Renee is eating lunch in the park one day when her smartphone is stolen by a small,
January 15th, 2018. Tadiana Jones | Cat Rambo, N.K. Jemisin | Audio, Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Melanie Rawn’s DRAGON PRINCE trilogy is finally being produced in audio format by Tantor Audio. The series begins with Dragon Prince (1985) and follows the inhabitants of a continent divided into several princedoms and ruled by a nasty and ruthless High Prince who has 17 bratty daughters but no male heir.
At the beginning of Dragon Prince, the prince of the desert region of the continent is killed while dragon-hunting and is succeeded by his son Rohan.
January 15th, 2018. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Melanie Rawn | Audio | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
Hermes: Tales of the Trickster by George O’Connor
Hermes: Tales of the Trickster (2018) is the tenth book in George O’Connor’s stellar illustrated Greek gods series, and really, at this point there’s little to say that every household, especially but not exclusively, those with children, should have these books on the shelf and just automatically add them as O’Connor comes up with them. They’re just that good.
This one opens with a former slave and his dog traveling the countryside until they stop at a cottage where a many-eyed figure is the watchman over a very fine cow tethered outside.
January 13th, 2018. Bill Capossere´s rating: 5 | Children, Comics | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The "body count" bothered me a bit less because being dead seemed more like an inconvenience than anything else... unlike…
Detailed, thoughtful review, Bill. I'm going to read it for two reasons. First, Karen Russell wrote it, and second, it…
this sounds like a fun one
These weird westerns are always interesting and have been popping up more in recent times (it seemed like there was…
Looking forward to reading the review.