Posted by Brad Hawley | Dec 29, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 2
Criminal (Vol. 4): Bad Night Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips Jacob Kurtz is the focus of Bad Night, the fourth volume of Ed Brubaker’s wonderfully disturbing noir series Criminal. His job is writing the newspaper comic strip that shows up in Criminal (vol. 1): Coward. The comic, based on Dick Tracy, is entitled Frank Kafka, […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | May 13, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Sunless Countries by Karl Schroeder The Sunless Countries is the fourth book in Karl Schroeder’s VIRGA series. This book introduces a new town (inside Virga) and a new protagonist. There are explanations of what’s gone on before, so you don’t have to read the first three VIRGA books (Sun of Suns, Queen of Candesce, […]
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Posted by John Hulet | Feb 25, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 0
Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs In Bone Crossed, the fourth installment in the Mercedes Thompson series, Mercy is learning to cope with her new role as the mate of the local werewolf pack while still suffering the effects of a horrific assault that occurred at the climax of Iron Kissed. Complications from inter-species conflicts remain […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Sep 9, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
23 Years on Fire by Joel Shepherd 23 Years on Fire is the fourth book in Joel Shepherd’s CASSANDRA KRESNOV series, a set of military SF books set several hundred years in future, in a distant galaxy. Cassandra Kresnov, who goes by Sandy, is the commander of the galactic Federal Security Agency, or FSA’s, special operations […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Jun 5, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
Valiant by Jack Campbell Black Jack Geary, the crew of the flagship Dauntless, and the other ships of the Alliance fleet are still wandering around in enemy territory, trying to get home (and reminding me a bit of that stupid show I loved when I was a kid: Lost in Space). They’re worried about their […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Nov 8, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 22
The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson I loved Brandon Sanderson’s MISTBORN series, so I was excited to learn that he was publishing another novel set in the MISTBORN world. The Alloy of Law (2012) takes place a few hundred years after the events in the original trilogy. By this time, society is in the […]
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Posted by Kelly Lasiter | Feb 18, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 0
Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning At the end of Faefever, Mac was brought low, her free will stolen by the schemes of the Lord Master and the powers of several Fae. In the early chapters of Dreamfever, Karen Marie Moning makes the unusual decision of switching to another point of view, that of Mac’s teenage […]
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Posted by Terry Weyna | Jan 29, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 0
Vanished by Kat Richardson The fourth book in Kat Richardson’s Greywalker series, Vanished, is the best in the series so far. Harper Blaine, Richardson’s private investigator protagonist, gets a telephone call from an old boyfriend — not necessarily an unusual event, except that, in this case, the boyfriend happens to be long dead. He hints […]
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Posted by Justin Blazier | Dec 24, 2009 | SFF Reviews | 15
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie Joe Abercrombie is the new master of dark, gritty, realistic fantasy, and Best Served Cold might well be the masterpiece that represents that subgenre. Monza Murcatto is a renowned and very successful mercenary … or was until she was stabbed, beaten, and thrown from a mountainside by her employer. […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Dec 24, 2009 | SFF Reviews | 1
Jailbait Zombie by Mario Acevedo I confess I sometimes wonder about writing bad reviews (not reviews that are bad, but reviews of bad books). With so much out there, is it better to point people to the good stuff or warn them of the not-so-good? The feeling is exacerbated when the book is one by […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Jul 21, 2009 | SFF Reviews | 4
The Price of Spring by Daniel Abraham I’ve been a big fan of Daniel Abraham’s Long Price Quartet and The Price of Spring, its concluding volume, confirms my view that it is one of the more original and best-written fantasy epics in recent years. If you haven’t read the third volume, An Autumn War, stop […]
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Posted by John Hulet | Dec 20, 2008 | SFF Reviews | 0
Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik When last we left our characters, they were trapped with the Prussian Army running for their lives in the face of Napoleon’s Army. Returning home they are confronted by a disaster of cataclysmic proportions as an illness is rapidly decimating the dragon populace of England. Harrowing stuff… Empire of […]
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Posted by Robert Thompson (RETIRED) | Oct 14, 2008 | SFF Reviews | 0
Thicker Than Water by Mike Carey The fourth Felix Castor novel starts out with a bang: the liberation of Rafi from the Charles Stanger Care Facility under the nose of Jenna-Jane Mulbridge, told in a clever departure from Felix’s usual first-person narrative. From there, Thicker Than Water follows the same formula as the other Castor […]
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