Posted by Kat Hooper | Nov 30, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 1
Night of the Soul Stealer by Joseph Delaney Night of the Soul Stealer, the third book in Joseph Delaney’s LAST APPRENTICE (or WARDSTONE CHRONICLES) series is another intense scary story for children. Fans of the first two books, Revenge of the Witch and Curse of the Bane, which readers should finish first, will be pleased. […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Jan 21, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 6
The Fuller Memorandum by Charles Stross I just can’t get enough of THE LAUNDRY FILES. This series has almost everything I want in an urban SFF adventure — an intelligent hero with a wry sense of humor and a great voice; an eclectic supporting cast; a fast pace with lots of action and plot twists; […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Mar 4, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 3
Cursor’s Fury by Jim Butcher After having dealt with the Vord horde in Academ’s Fury, there are new worries in Cursor’s Fury, the third novel in Jim Butcher’s CODEX ALERA saga. The rebel uprising has gained strength and the aging and heirless First Lord of Alera is in danger of being overthrown. Those who are […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Jun 7, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Empire of Gut and Bone by M.T. Anderson The Empire of Gut and Bone is the third book of the Norumbegan Quartet by M.T. Anderson, coming after The Game of Sunken Places and its sequel The Suburb Beyond the Stars. Unfortunately, it has many of the same problems as those first two books, which […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Jan 7, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 0
Stonewielder by Ian C. Esslemont Stonewielder is Ian C. Esslemont’s third book in the Malazan series co-created with Steven Erikson, and which Erikson has been exploring for years with his own series. If you look over my reviews for Esslemont’s first two Malazan books, Night of Knives and Return of the Crimson Guard, you’ll see […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Nov 29, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 6
Shadowrise by Tad Williams Shadowrise is Tad Williams’ third and thus concluding novel of the Shadowmarch trilogy, begun in Shadowmarch and continued in Shadowplay. So in this final volume… wait, hold on… I’m now being told that Williams, clearly feeling a sense of fantasy author peer pressure, has decided that, yes, while this is the […]
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Posted by John Hulet | Sep 15, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 0
Shadows Past by Lorna Freeman Lorna Freeman’s Borderlands series has seen its ups and downs for me. Shadows Past is cut from the same cloth; I just felt like it took a long time to tell next to no story, and then all the good parts were crammed into the end. The main character, Rabbit, […]
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Posted by Amanda Rutter (guest) | Apr 25, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 0
Every Which Way But Dead by Kim Harrison I sped from The Good, the Bad and the Undead (which I thoroughly enjoyed) straight into Every Which Way But Dead, and was a little disappointed. I genuinely loved the second book in the Hollows series — it had a tight plot, a spicing of sex, plenty […]
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Posted by Robert Thompson (RETIRED) | Oct 13, 2009 | SFF Reviews | 0
ArchEnemy by Frank Beddor PLOT SUMMARY: The power of Imagination has been lost! Now it’s all about the artillery as AD52’s, crystal shooters, spikejack tumblers and orb cannons are unleashed in a war of weapons and brute force. As Alyss searches wildly for the solution to the disaster that has engulfed her Queendom, Arch declares […]
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Posted by John Ottinger (guest) | May 11, 2009 | SFF Reviews | 0
Goblin War by Jim Hines Goblin War is a completely different novel from the first two novels in this series. Those two books were constrained by the small world of the lair and its surrounding caves. The goblins never left the caves under their mountain, for all the adventures that they had. This meant that […]
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Posted by John Ottinger (guest) | Mar 25, 2008 | SFF Reviews | 0
Shadow in the Deep by L.B. Graham The third book by L.B. Graham, a Christian and Covenant Seminary grad, is probably one of the most wonderful books I have ever read. Shadow in the Deep picks up where Bringer of Storms left off after the destruction of Col Marena by Malek’s followers. The prophet Valzaan […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Jan 4, 2008 | SFF Reviews | 0
Powers by Ursula Le Guin Powers is the third and, in my opinion, the best of the Annals of the Western Shore novels. In this book, we meet Gavir, a slave in the City State of Etra. Gavir was born in the marshes but was stolen, along with his sister, by slavers and brought to […]
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