Posted by Kat Hooper | Jul 10, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 2
Arrow’s Fall by Mercedes Lackey Arrow’s Fall (1988) is the third and final novel in the first trilogy of Mercedes Lackey’s VALDEMAR saga (THE HERALDS OF VALDEMAR). This trilogy features Talia, a girl who lived in a close-knit conservative rural area who was unexpectedly chosen as the Queen’s Own Herald. In Arrows of the Queen […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Dec 21, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 0
Mistress of the Empire by Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts Mistress of the Empire (1989) is the final book in Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts’ EMPIRE TRILOGY. It’s an exciting, emotional, dramatic, and ultimately satisfying end to the story. Please don’t read it before you read Daughter of the Empire and Servant of […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Nov 30, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 0
Ashling by Isobelle Carmody This is the third book in Isobelle Carmody‘s THE OBERNEWTYN CHRONICLES, marking the point where the series takes on a truly epic quality. Seriously, this instalment is twice the size of the first volume, and the next one is even larger! Elspeth Gordie is one of many so-called Misfits that dwell […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Oct 17, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 3
The Fall of the Kings by Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman Ellen Kushner published Swordspoint in 1987. It gathered a swarm of fans who loved the prose, the magicless world with its glittering veneer and cloak-and-dagger intrigue, and the love story at its center. Readers clamored to know more of steadfast, enigmatic swordsman Richard St.Vier […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Oct 6, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 4
The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner “Whatever the duke means to do with her, it can’t be anything decent.” The Privilege of the Sword is Ellen Kushner’s sequel to her novel Swordspoint which was about the doings of the high and low societies in her fictional town of Riverside. The main characters of […]
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Posted by Brad Hawley | Sep 23, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 0
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders by Hirohiko Araki (An Oxford College Student Review!) In this column, I feature comic book reviews written by my students at Oxford College of Emory University. Oxford College is a small liberal arts school just outside of Atlanta, Georgia. I challenge students to read and interpret comics because I believe sequential […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Mar 29, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 1
Imago by Octavia Butler Imago (1989) is the third book in Octavia Butler’s XENOGENESIS trilogy. It concludes the story begun with the human woman Lilith in Dawn (1987) and continued with her Oankali-human ‘construct’ son Akin in Adulthood Rites (1988). Imago takes the bold but logical next step by shifting the perspective to Jodahs, an […]
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Posted by Ryan Skardal | Mar 6, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 5
Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks Iain M. Banks’s Use of Weapons is the third CULTURE novel. For those not in the know, the Culture is an intergalactic paradise run by its extremely sophisticated machines. Its people are augmented so that they are able to control and enhance every function their body serves. Life […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Nov 2, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 0
Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card Prentice Alvin is the third book in Orson Scott Card’s TALES OF ALVIN MAKER. After the excitement in the last book, Red Prophet, when Alvin and his family experienced the Battle of Tippecanoe, Alvin is finally off to Hatrack River, where he was born, to begin his apprenticeship to […]
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Posted by Kelly Lasiter | Nov 25, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 0
Guinevere: The Legend in Autumn by Persia Woolley Guinevere: The Legend in Autumn is a good book, even though it perpetuates the flaws seen in Persia Woolley’s previous Guinevere Trilogy novels, Child of the Northern Spring and Queen of the Summer Stars. Woolley’s Guinevere still has a habit of distancing herself from the story, briskly […]
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