Posted by Stuart Starosta | Oct 11, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 3
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds I’ve been planning to read this series for many years, because Alastair Reynolds, Peter F. Hamilton, Stephen Baxter, Ken MacLeod, Charles Stross and Iain M. Banks are regularly mentioned at the forefront of the British Hard SF movement. Sure, there are many non-British well-known hard SF and space opera practitioners […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Aug 2, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 14
Storm Front by Jim Butcher It is hard to believe that Storm Front, the first book of the Dresden Files, came out more than a decade ago. Jim Butcher introduces his scrappy wizard-detective in this inaugural adventure. That was a more innocent time, and Harry was a more innocent character back then. Harry is a […]
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Posted by Skye Walker | Mar 19, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 2
Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley Note: if you’ve never stumbled your way into a Spiderman/Spider-Man movie, or even past the poster, there will be spoilers in this review. If you’re somewhat familiar with the Spider-Man story and/or the Marvel universe (particularly in New York) then nothing in here should […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Mar 10, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 7
1632 by Eric Flint There’s something to be said for sheer audacity. 1632, the first book in Eric Flint’s RING OF FIRE series, published in February, 2000, has got audacity in container-ship-sized loads. In the year 2000, a section of West Virginia disappears from our world during an event called the Ring of Fire. It […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Aug 20, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
Shadowland by Meg Cabot Suze is a mediator — she can see the ghosts of people whose souls have not been able to move on. She helps them resolve their earthly issues so they can go wherever they’re supposed to go. She doesn’t know what happens to them after they go — just that it’s […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Apr 30, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 5
Dark Sleeper by Jeffrey E. Barlough Dark Sleeper is a delightful, debonair and decidedly Dickensian departure from dime-a-dozen fantasy. Jeffrey E. Barlough, who published the book in 2000, attempts and mostly succeeds in writing an entire fantasy novel in the style and form of Charles Dickens, with a dash of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle thrown […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Apr 5, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 1
The Seer and the Sword by Victoria Hanley It’s hard to muster up any particularly strong feelings for The Seer and the Sword. It is your standard medieval-adventure-fantasy, with every plot development and character arc foreseeable far in advance, told in sparse and simple prose. It’s hard to be too enthusiastic about it, yet at […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Nov 24, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 0
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz You’re never too young to die… After a friend recommended the Alex Rider books, and the movie adaptation pricked my interest, I settled down with Stormbreaker, the first of what is (currently) a nine-book series. Alex is a fourteen year old English schoolboy who wakes early one morning to find that […]
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Posted by Ryan Skardal | Sep 9, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 3
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station is the first of three novels set in the Miéville’s Bas-Lag universe. First released in 2000, Perdido Street Station and its sequels have made China Miéville one of the most acclaimed fantasy writers of the 21st century. Perdido Street Station is an outstanding urban […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Feb 21, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Shamer’s Daughter by Lene Kaaberbol The Shamer’s Daughter is in itself a pleasant little story that moves along well and has at its core an extremely intriguing concept that here is unfortunately not fully explored, but the good news is that while The Shamer’s Daughter is an ok read, its sequel, The Shamer’s Signet, […]
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Posted by Rob Rhodes | Feb 21, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Sword by Deborah Chester The Sword is the first of a high-fantasy trilogy and is little more than a prologue for whatever follows. What I mean by that is this: in terms of actual plot development, very little happens here. Each paperback in this trilogy is about 400 pages long (1200 total), so this […]
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Posted by Guest | Dec 19, 2009 | SFF Reviews | 3
Well of Darkness by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman I bought Well of Darkness in hardcover years ago in the bargain bin. I should have left it there. I have tried starting it three or four times, and I, for the life of me, cannot get past the second chapter. It is totally boring and un-engaging, […]
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Posted by Kelly Lasiter | Apr 11, 2009 | SFF Reviews | 0
A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton Laurell K. Hamilton promises a story of modern-day faeries and their complex court intrigue, which in theory is right up my alley, but I didn’t really get into A Kiss of Shadows. By about page 100, my significant other was laughing because I kept yelling aloud, “Is […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Jun 2, 2008 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Wind Singer by William Nicholson The Wind Singer is a children’s novel and so comes with all the pluses and minuses of that genre. The pace is quick with little room or time for digression or a lot of descriptive detail. The upside is that the book never once bogs down and keeps pulling […]
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Posted by Kelly Lasiter | May 31, 2008 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Meeting of the Waters by Caiseal Mor With its gorgeous knotwork cover art and the back-cover blurb about “brave, copper-haired Aoife,” the publishers evidently mean to recommend Caiseal Mor‘s The Meeting of the Waters to readers who’ve read and loved Marillier’s Sevenwaters series, the popular trilogy of Celtic epics featuring strong female protagonists. That’s […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Dec 9, 2007 | SFF Reviews | 0
Magic Steps by Tamora Pierce Magic Steps is the first book of the Tamora Pierce quartet entitled The Circle Opens. Featuring the characters of The Circle of Magic quartet, this new series continues their story by exploring how each of the four main characters — just coming to grips with their powers in the previous […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Nov 2, 2007 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Nameless Day by Sara Douglass The Nameless Day is a difficult book to review as there was so much I didn’t like about it. To begin with, the main character is extremely unlikeable, which isn’t an automatic mark against a book, but when the character stays so consistently unlikeable for such a long time, […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Oct 20, 2007 | SFF Reviews | 0
Medalon by Jennifer Fallon Jennifer Fallon’s Medalon is the first book in The Demon Child Trilogy, which makes up the larger Hythrun Chronicles. The Sisterhood of Medalon has made it illegal to practice religion (the worship of pagan gods), persecutes all believers of the gods, and has forced the Harshini, a race of long-lived beings […]
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Posted by Kelly Lasiter | Aug 29, 2007 | SFF Reviews | 0
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier In Daughter of the Forest, Juliet Marillier deftly sets the fairy tale “The Six Swans” in dark-ages Ireland; think of the general time period of The Mists of Avalon, when Christian and Pagan, Gael and Briton and Saxon, were fighting and feuding and even sometimes getting along. The […]
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