Fatale (Vol 3): West of Hell by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips
In West of Hell, Book Three of Fatale, Brubaker adds depth to the character of his femme fatale, Josephine. He also adds more mystery because we meet two women who look like Jo, but do not go by that name. These two women show up in the four interlinked stories that make up West of Hell. The first story is set in the Great Depression,
June 30th, 2018. Brad Hawley´s rating: 5 | Ed Brubaker | Comics | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews
Since Magic Bites was first published in 2007, the husband-and-wife writing team known as Ilona Andrews has developed a devoted fan base in the urban fantasy genre with their KATE DANIELS series. But all good things must come to an end, and when Magic Triumphs, the tenth novel in that series, is published in August 2018, the Andrews team has announced that it will be the end of that series.
June 29th, 2018. Tadiana Jones´s rating: 4 | Ilona Andrews | SFF Reviews | 6 comments |
Stories of the Raksura, Volume 2: The Dead City & The Dark Earth Below by Martha Wells
Note: This review will contain mild spoilers for the RAKSURA novels.
Here is the second volume containing the novellas and short stories written by Martha Wells to accompany her BOOKS OF THE RAKSURA. I really enjoyed the first volume, Stories of the Raksura, Volume 1. I liked the tight and focused nature of the novellas and short stories and thought they were actually,
June 29th, 2018. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Martha Wells | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Magic is well and good, but bullets are often swifter.
Brief Cases (2018) is a collection of a dozen short stories set in the world of Harry Dresden, a private investigator and talented wizard living in Chicago. Harry is the main character in most of the stories, but not all; a few other characters in Jim Butcher’s DRESDEN FILES universe get their chance to relate their adventures in their own voices.
This is the case with one of my favorite stories,
June 28th, 2018. Tadiana Jones´s rating: 4 | Jim Butcher | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Half-Off Ragnarok by Seanan McGuire
Seanan McGuire’s INCRYPTID series is a fun paranormal fantasy with a focus on monsters and romance. The first two books, Discount Armageddon and Midnight Blue-Light Special, starred Verity Price, a ballroom dancer wannabe born into a famous family of monster hunters. The Price family were kicked out of the Covenant a couple generations back when their ancestors decided it was unethical to kill monsters indiscriminately. Now they (unlike the Covenant,
June 28th, 2018. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Seanan McGuire | Audio | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Awards:
Tor.com has a list of Saturday’s Locus Award winners, which include The Collapsing Empire (John Scalzi) for Best Science Fiction Novel, The Stone Sky (N.K. Jemisin) for Best Fantasy Novel; The Changeling (Victor LaValle) for Best Horror Novel. Akata Warrior (Nnedi Okorafor) won Best Young Adult Novel and The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (Theodora Goss) won for best first novel. The John W. Campbell Award went to David Walton for The Genius Plague.
June 27th, 2018. Marion Deeds | Giveaway!, World Wide Wednesday | 10 comments |
Summer in Orcus by T. Kingfisher
Summer is a young girl whose overly protective, clingy mother tries to protect her from every possible danger, although Summer is allowed to read books about magic and shapechanging and such. (“Summer’s mother believed that books were safe things that kept you inside, which only shows how little she knew about it, because books are one of the least safe things in the world.”) But Summer’s mother is no match for Baba Yaga! One spring day Summer is found by Baba Yaga ― actually, she’s found by Baba Yaga’s chicken-footed house,
June 27th, 2018. Tadiana Jones´s rating: 5 | T. Kingfisher | Children, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
Stories of the Raksura, Volume 1: The Falling World & The Tale of Indigo and Cloud by Martha Wells
Martha Wells has written several short stories and novellas set in the world of her BOOKS OF THE RAKSURA. They’ve been collected in two volumes called Stories of the Raksura and I’ve read both of these volumes. Volume 1, which collects the novellas The Falling World and The Tale of Indigo and Cloud as well as the short stories “The Forest Boy” and “Adaptation,” is the best of these and,
June 27th, 2018. Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Martha Wells | Audio | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
The Language of Spells by Garret Weyr
The Language of Spells (2018), by Garret Weyr, has a certain whimsical charm to it at times, and the warm relationship at its core is a definite plus, but it has a good number of issues that mar the reading experience, though probably less so for a younger audience.
The dragon Grisha is born in the Black Forest in a world where magic is on the wane. After a few decades of maturation (though still young in dragon terms),
June 26th, 2018. Bill Capossere´s rating: 3 | Garret Weyr | Children, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Robot Titans of Gotham by Norvell Page
In my recent review of the anthology volume Rivals of Weird Tales, I mentioned that one of my favorite stories therein was the novella-length “But Without Horns,” which was written by Norvell Page and first appeared in the June 1940 issue of Unknown magazine. I also expressed a desire to read some of Page’s many tales dealing with his most famous character, the Spider. Well, I am here to tell you: Mission accomplished!
June 26th, 2018. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 3.5 | Norvell W. Page | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
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