Sanctuary (2005) is the third book in Mercedes Lackey’s DRAGON JOUSTERS quartet. You need to read Joust and Alta first. There will be spoilers for those first two books in this review of the third.
Vetch has come a long way. When we first met him in Joust, he was the servant of a cruel master in his home country of Alta.
May 1st, 2019. Kat Hooper´s rating: 2 | Mercedes Lackey | Audio | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
Supreme Power (Vol. 3): High Command by J. Michael Straczynski
In this volume, the government ups its game against Hyperion, attempting to discredit him in the eyes of the public and attack him where they feel he is weak. They also seem not to have learned anything from the fiasco that has been their involvement in metahuman affairs up to this point, and still think they can play god with inhumanly powerful pawns. Not too bright, but I’m afraid the estimate may not be too off the mark for how governments would respond to the possibility of controlling the ‘easy’ power that superheroes (and villains) present.
December 1st, 2015. Terry Lago´s rating: 3 | J. Michael Straczynski | Comics | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Shannon Hale writes excellent children’s fantasy. River Secrets is the third book in her BAYERN series. It follows The Goose Girl and Enna Burning and focuses on one of readers’ (and the author’s) favorite characters from these books, Razo of the forest.
In the previous books, Razo’s friend Isi, who has wind magic, became queen of Bayern and his friend Enna, who has fire magic, helped Bayern win a battle with Tira.
November 4th, 2014. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Shannon Hale | Audio, Children | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
The Sweet Far Thing is the final book in Libba Bray’s GEMMA DOYLE trilogy about four girls at a boarding school in Victorian England. Gemma has inherited a magic that allows her to cross over to the Realms, the fantasy world that’s the source of her magic. She and her friends Felicity, Pippa, and Ann have been trying to keep the magic safe from people who might use it to unleash horrors upon the real world, yet Gemma has promised to share the magic with the people who have helped her so far.
October 17th, 2014. Kat Hooper´s rating: 1 | Libba Bray | Audio, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
RUNAWAYS: The Good Die Young by Brian K. Vaughan
Note: This review may contain spoilers of the previous volumes.
The Good Die Young, the third collection of Brian K. Vaughan’s Marvel’s RUNAWAYS, brings the original story arc to a successful, if sad, close. Our six young people, who have had to adjust to discovering they are the children of super-villains, come of age and make their own decisions, graduating to full hero status.
The book starts with Alex,
May 2nd, 2014. Marion Deeds´s rating: 3 | Brian K. Vaughan | Comics | SFF Reviews | no comments |
MaddAddam is the concluding volume of Margaret Atwood’s post human-apocalypse trilogy, which began with Oryx and Crake and continued with Year of the Flood. I say “Post-human-apocalypse” rather than post-apocalyptic because more so than most novels in this sub-genre, I’d say Atwood makes it pretty clear that our apocalypse is not the world’s, that in fact, this little blue ball of water and rock will spin on quite nicely without us,
September 3rd, 2013. Bill Capossere´s rating: 4.5 | Margaret Atwood | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Engaging the Enemy by Elizabeth Moon
“I do not intend survival. I intend victory.”
Engaging the Enemy is the third book in Elizabeth Moon’s VATTA’S WAR saga. Young captain Kylara Vatta, her beautiful cousin Stella Vatta, and their elderly Aunt Grace continue their quest for revenge on the people who destroyed the Vatta shipping empire and most of the Vatta family. They are just beginning to realize the extent of the vast conspiracy which brought the Vattas down — it involves space pirates,
March 12th, 2013. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Elizabeth Moon | Audio | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
The Evil Elves by Bruce Coville
Moongobble has successfully (sort of) completed two of his three tasks to prove that he deserves to be a magician. His third task is to retrieve a jewel called The Queen’s Belly Button, which has the power to turn its owner evil, from the elves who stole it. The elves, who used to be peaceful creatures, have been badly influenced by the Belly Button and they do not want to give it back.
Edward et al. once again set out with Moongobble to help him get the jewel.
December 3rd, 2011. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Bruce Coville | Audio, Children | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Theseus by Geraldine McCaughrean
Out of all the heroes in the Greek mythology canon, Theseus always struck me as the most pitiable. Though he started out promisingly enough, a string of bad decisions and unlucky circumstances left him the most broken of all the heroes in Greek mythology. In her retelling of his story, Geraldine McCaughrean pinpoints the reason for all this misery, Theseus’s fatal pride, and maps the trail of ruined lives and broken hearts that Theseus leaves behind him before his sins finally catch up with him.
King Aegeus of Athens is desperate for a son,
November 30th, 2010. Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 4 | Geraldine McCaughrean | Children | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Zero History by William Gibson
It is getting more difficult to classify William Gibson as an SFF writer. Although Gibson’s earliest work stands alongside the best of science fiction and cyberpunk, and The Difference Engine, which he co-wrote with Bruce Sterling, is a well-respected steampunk novel, Gibson’s Bigend trilogy has left cyberpunk, outer space, and human cloning behind.
Instead, Zero History is about jeans.
Gabriel Hounds clothing is unlike any clothing now made by mainstream fashion companies.
November 10th, 2010. Ryan Skardal and Marion Deeds | William Gibson | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
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