Posted by Brad Hawley | May 23, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 0
The B.P.R.D.(Vol. 2): The Soul of Venice and Other Stories by Mike Mignola (writer) & various writers and artists The B.P.R.D.: The Soul of Venice and Other Stories opens with the title story, a tale about the four main B.P.R.D. agents without Hellboy: Abe Sapien, Liz Sherman, Roger, and Johann Kraus, who are overseen by […]
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Posted by Ryan Skardal | May 31, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Death of Kings by Conn Iggulden Julius is a young soldier. He fights in northern Africa, but he is not in command. Still, he is very well trained, is charismatic and trusts his instincts, and he is beginning to learn what it means to command and why he loves everything Rome stands for. He […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Mar 31, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Lost City of Faar by D.J. MacHale Note: The first paragraph of this review contains minor spoilers for The Merchant of Death. The Lost City of Faar is the second novel in D.J. MacHale’s popular 10-book PENDRAGON series for teens. In the first book, The Merchant of Death, 14-year old Bobby Pendragon discovered that […]
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Posted by Ray McKenzie | Jan 6, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 0
Grass for His Pillow by Lian Hearn We saw myth, legend, folklore and tradition of feudal Japan seamlessly woven in Across the Nightingale Floor, and Grass for His Pillow offers equal richness and storytelling depth. In what marks the second book in the trilogy, Lian Hearn returns to the stories of Takeo and Kaede as […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Aug 22, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 2
Fables (Vol. 2): Animal Farm by Bill Willingham (author) and Mark Buckingham (artist) Willingham further develops his world. Animal Farm is the second volume in Fables, a comic book series that presents characters from various “make-believe” lands living the immigrant life in the USA. In Volume One, we met Snow White, the capable vice-mayor of […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Oct 16, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 3
Undead and Unemployed by MaryJanice Davidson “Oh. This sucks. This totally and completely sucks. The vampires all hate me and everyone’s trying to kill me!” ~Queen Betsy Undead and Unemployed is the second book in MaryJanice Davidson’s QUEEN BETSY series. In the previous book, shallow and too fashionably-conscious Betsy died, came back as a vampire, […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Jun 27, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 0
City of Stars by Mary Hoffman The Duke is in a Dangerous Mood… City of Stars is the second in Mary Hoffman‘s Stravaganza series (of which there are currently five installments), following on from City of Masks. The basic premise of the story is based on people known as the Stravagante: a select group of […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | May 10, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 5
Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan Three weeks ago I finished Broken Angels, the second book in Richard K. Morgan’s Takeshi Kovacs trilogy. I’ve been struggling with this review ever since. Broken Angels is good noir science fiction. It is well-written. I just didn’t like it. In some places in the book the timbers of […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Oct 29, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 0
Beauty Sleep by Cameron Dokey The Once Upon a Time books are short but sweet retellings of old fairytales, written with the general plot of the original story in mind, but in such a way that there are a few surprises along the way (often the story is told in a contemporary setting that has […]
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Posted by Stefan Raets (RETIRED) | Jun 14, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Queen of Sinister by Mark Chadbourn The Queen of Sinister, the middle book in Mark Chadbourn‘s DARK AGE trilogy, introduces a different set of characters from book 1, The Devil in Green. This is a bit surprising, because the author’s earlier AGE OF MISRULE trilogy, which describes the events leading up to the start […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Dec 4, 2007 | SFF Reviews | 0
Charlie Bone and the Time Twister by Jenny Nimmo The first Charlie Bone book had lots of basic flaws in it: lack of story or character development, a sense of arbitrariness, an overly familiar feel to it, etc., but the premise was just interesting enough, and the characters’ magical “endowments” just quirky enough that one […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Jul 28, 2007 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Charnel Prince by Greg Keyes The Charnel Prince succeeds in what should be the immediate and least of goals for second books in series — it moves the plot along. The book is well-paced, moving quickly through various storylines and transitioning nicely from one point-of-view to another. The shifts occur smoothly and repeatedly act […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Jul 18, 2007 | SFF Reviews | 0
Reunion by Kara Dalkey In the previous book, the sixteen year old mermyd Niniane (called “Nia” for short), discovered betrayal and conspiracy in her underwater home of Atlantis. With the escape of an evil mermyd named Ma’el and the Farworlder (powerful, intelligent squid-like creatures) that he is telepathically connected to, Atlantis was overthrown and Nia […]
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Posted by Kelly Lasiter | Jul 2, 2007 | SFF Reviews | 0
Gods’ Concubine by Sara Douglass I bought the previous book in this series, Hades’ Daughter, because it was based loosely on Greek and British myth. I shelved it for a long time because I hated the characters. I finally, reluctantly, read it again, because I was still interested in its storyline — and realized that […]
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