Long Hot Summoning by Tanya Huff
Long Hot Summoning (2003) is the third and final book in Tanya Huff’s KEEPER’S CHRONICLES. It’s advisable to read the first two books, Summon the Keeper and The Second Summoning first.
Claire’s sister Diana has just graduated from high school and is off on her first summoning. It leads her to the local indoor shopping mall, where she discovers that evil forces are quietly infiltrating the mall,
August 6th, 2018. Kat Hooper´s rating: 2 | Tanya Huff | Audio | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Planetary: Leaving the 20th Century, Volume 3 by Warren Ellis & John Cassaday
In this third volume of PLANETARY stories we not only get to step back for a moment and have a bit of a look at the adventures of Elijah Snow in his century of existence trying to keep the world strange, but we also get more details on the Four and their intersection with the Planetary organization prior to the current story arc. Ellis is able to play in a lot of cool sandboxes as a result and the genre mashing continues much to my personal glee!
August 9th, 2013. Terry Lago´s rating: 5 | Warren Ellis | Comics | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
The Hidden Coronet by Catherine Fisher
The Hidden Coronet is the third book of Catherine Fisher’s Relic Master series, following The Dark City and The Lost Heiress. While book one was quite strong, the sequel was solid but a bit disappointing, hurt by somewhat weak plotting and worldbuilding. The Hidden Coronet is much stronger and a welcome return to the quality of The Dark City.
It begins with several tense scenes — one involving Galen and Raffi trying to rid a house of an evil presence and the other concerning the attempted rescue of several prisoners,
August 13th, 2011. Bill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Catherine Fisher | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Midnight Over Sanctaphrax by Paul Stewart
Midnight Over Sanctaphrax falls into the middle of the first three books of the series. While Twig’s character is enlarged upon and other interesting ones added, the book falls too easily into the same episodic nature of the first book, where one peril follows closely upon another with none of them ever explored in enough depth so that they truly feel dangerous or suspenseful.
The nature of the basic plot, Twig searching for his lost crew after his skyship explodes and hurls them in different directions,
September 14th, 2008. Bill Capossere´s rating: 3 | Paul Stewart | Children | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Wolf Queen (or Queen of Wolves in some publications) is the third of four books in the Claidi quartet, a series of books that are told in diary-form by the young heroine Claidi and her travels throughout a fantasy land. In the previous installments, Wolf Tower and Wolf Star, she has escaped slavery, destroyed a corrupt system, found her true love, been kept prisoner in a moving castle and escaped once more in a controllable star.
May 28th, 2008. Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 3 | Tanith Lee | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The High King’s Tomb by Kristen Britain
From early on in The High King’s Tomb (2007), alarm bells started going off in my head. It doesn’t take very long, if you’ve read the other two books (and you should have), to realize that a “grab the reader by the throat” event is conspicuously absent from the beginning of the story. There’s one in the first book, there’s one in the second book, but The High King’s Tomb starts out on a noticeably meandering path.
November 21st, 2007. Beth Johnson Sonderby (guest)´s rating: 3.5 | Kristen Britain | SFF Reviews | no comments |
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Thanks for the kind words, Marion! Coming as they are from a professional writer, they are much appreciated!
Wonderful review, Sandy.
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