Dark Ascension by M.L. Brennan
Dark Ascension is the fourth book in the GENERATION V series, which has quickly become my favorite urban fantasy series. It seems like I spend a good few months every year looking forward to the next book in the series. Brennan has me hooked.
Dark Ascension is far different from any other book in this series. It has a much darker tone, and the humor, while there, is muted. It feels a lot heavier,
January 29th, 2017. Sarah Chorn | M.L. Brennan | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Editor’s note: We thank Sarah Chorn of Bookworm Blues for contributing this review to our site. Kat did not like the first two books, Written in Red and Murder of Crows, but the series is extremely popular, so we are pleased to have Sarah’s opinion of the third book, Vision in Silver.
Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop
Each installment of Anne Bishop’s THE OTHERS series seems to only make me a bigger fan.
June 23rd, 2016. Sarah Chorn | Anne Bishop | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
The Visitant by Kathleen O’Neal Gear & W. Michael Gear
The Visitant brought all sorts of family vacation memories to my mind. It reminded me of all the times I’d hiked through the ruins of Mesa Verde and imagined all the people who had worn those same rocks smooth hundreds of years ago. That’s part of the power of the book. It takes people back in time to revisit portions of their own lives, and back to the time of the Anasazi.
The Visitant is told from two different periods of time.
May 6th, 2016. Sarah Chorn | W. Michael & Kathleen Gear | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Curve of the Earth by Simon Morden
Simon Morden’s The Curve of the Earth is a book that flew below the radar. It’s set in a sort of futuristic Earth. Politics and the whole “the earth is flat” thing have effected how people live, communicate, work and understand each other. The world is a different place. Some areas, like America, are ultra conservative, while others are downtrodden and rather terrifying, ruled by crime bosses. It’s a world where crossing the Atlantic takes a fraction of the time it takes now.
March 31st, 2016. Sarah Chorn | Simon Morden | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Love it or hate it, The Hollow City is a fast, whirlwind read that will completely devour your time.
Having not read any other of Wells’ books, I can’t say if having an untraditional lead character is normal for him, but following a protagonist who has been diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic is not normal for me. This divergence from the norm was incredibly welcome. Michael’s diagnosis brings another level of depth and confusion to the plot and helps push The Hollow City from interesting to fascinating as Wells seamlessly blends fantasy (Michael’s hallucinations) with reality.
March 22nd, 2016. Sarah Chorn | Dan Wells | Horror, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
The Coldest War by Ian Tregillis
I loved Bitter Seeds, the first volume of THE MILKWEED TRIPTYCH. Ian Tregillis is executing a brilliant spin on twentieth-century world history with this series. The Coldest War begins roughly twenty years after the events of Bitter Seeds, and the name is fitting. Not only is this the Cold War, but it’s also a very cold part of the lives of the protagonists. In fact,
February 1st, 2016. Sarah Chorn | Ian Tregillis | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Barsoom Project by Larry Niven & Steven Barnes
I’ve never read anything by Larry Niven or Steven Barnes before, and after reading The Barsoom Project, I’m wondering why. While there were parts that didn’t completely connect with me, the writing was great and the story was interesting enough to hook me almost right away. Though I haven’t read Dream Park, the first book in the DREAM PARK series, I did not feel that my interest and understanding of this,
November 30th, 2015. Sarah Chorn | Larry Niven | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Stone Cold is the second book in a spinoff series by Monk (from her ALLIE BECKSTROM series/world). I have to admit, the first book in this BROKEN MAGIC series, Hell Bent, actually hooked me so hard it made me give the ALLIE BECKSTROM books a try, which I also enjoyed so much I am having a hard time making myself finish the series (which is the best compliment this bookworm can ever give any series).
November 24th, 2015. Sarah Chorn´s rating: 4 | Devon Monk | SFF Reviews | no comments |
This is the first Devon Monk book I’ve ever read. After some digging, I discovered that the main characters in the BROKEN MAGIC series, Shame and Terric, were introduced as backburner characters in another book/series that Monk wrote, the Allie Beckstrom series. Never fear, you obviously don’t have to have read those other books to enjoy Hell Bent. I didn’t have a clue who the author or her characters were, and I still had a lot of fun.
June 16th, 2015. Sarah Chorn | Devon Monk | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Hollow World by Michael J. Sullivan
As soon as I heard about Hollow World I jumped on the bandwagon. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I love it when authors take a left turn and tries something absolutely new and different. Michael J. Sullivan is known for his epic fantasy, so a time travel/futuristic sci-fi is absolutely different than his usual work. He had my attention.
The thing is, despite the fact that this is an absolutely different genre than Sullivan fans will expect,
May 16th, 2015. Sarah Chorn | Michael J. Sullivan | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
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