Boneyards by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Boneyards (2012) is the third full-length novel in Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s DIVING series. You’ll want to read Diving into the Wreck and City of Ruins first. A couple of companion novellas that you may also want to read first (but it’s not necessary) are Becalmed and The Application of Hope.
Boneyards begins five years after the events of City of Ruins (as well as the two companion novellas mentioned above).
July 10th, 2023. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Ken Scholes brings his PSALMS OF ISAAK series to a close with Hymn (2017), a novel that satisfactorily ends the series, even if the novel is perhaps a bit weaker in comparison to its predecessors.
One of the series’ strengths has always been Scholes’ vibrant imagination, and Hymn retains that quality here, building on earlier concepts and adding new ones, which I won’t detail here so as to avoid spoilers. Another positive quality of the series has been its,
December 11th, 2017. Bill Capossere´s rating: 3.5 | Ken Scholes | SFF Reviews | no comments |
With The Core (2017), Peter V. Brett brings his well-received DEMON CYCLE series to a climactic close, rounding up the slew of characters he’s introduced along the way and given most of them (at least of those who have survived to this point) at least some moments of stage time for a fond farewell. I’ve enjoyed the series ever since its opening with The Warded Man, and while I had some issues with this final book,
October 20th, 2017. Bill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Peter V. Brett | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
The Devil’s Only Friend by Dan Wells
This review contains spoilers for the first JOHN WAYNE CLEAVER trilogy.
John Wayne Cleaver is a seventeen-year-old boy who wants very, very much to kill people. Lots of them, one right after the other, in terrible, bloody ways. Paradoxically, because he longs to do that, he has been taking extraordinary lengths to avoid becoming a serial killer. His struggles were related in a trilogy consisting of I Am Not A Serial Killer (reviewed here),
June 22nd, 2015. Terry Weyna´s rating: 4.5 | Dan Wells | Horror | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Timeless is the fifth and final book in Gail Carriger’s popular PARASOL PROTECTORATE series which takes place in a Victorian London where vampires and werewolves and other immortal paranormal creatures are integrated into society. Alexia Tarabotti, our spunky heroine, is a “preternatural” — she has the rare ability to cancel out the powers of other supernatural creatures when she touches them.
Over the course of the previous books, Alexia met, fell in love with, and married Lord Conal Maccon, an alpha werewolf.
March 30th, 2015. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Gail Carriger | Audio | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Tarnished and Torn by Juliet Blackwell
Tarnished and Torn is the fifth book in Juliet Blackwell’s WITCHCRAFT MYSTERIES series. If you haven’t read any of the books yet, I’d recommend that you start back at book one, Second Hand Spirits. This is a pleasant cozy mystery series that isn’t going to stun you with brilliant ideas or delight you with its literary finesse, but it consistently does what it sets out to do — it entertains. Its strength is the cast of characters who are likeable right from the start and who grow on the reader as,
December 24th, 2013. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Juliet Blackwell | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Kill City Blues by Richard Kadrey
How about a nice haunted house book? You’ve read dozens, you say? Okay, well how about a haunted hotel? Been there, done that… ? Well, have you read about a haunted luxury mall, one with abandoned levels all the way down to a faux Roman bath that holds a shrine to a god from another universe, and contains, somewhere, a God-killing weapon? No? I thought not.
Kill City Blues is the fifth SANDMAN SLIM book from Richard Kadrey.
September 18th, 2013. Marion Deeds´s rating: 4 | Richard Kadrey | SFF Reviews | no comments |
I am a big fan of Kate Griffin’s MATTHEW SWIFT books. I think her love of London; the majestic, the beautiful, the historic, the grungy, the run-down and the shoddy, powers those books, as does a system of magic that grown organically from the city (or, as Swift puts it, “Life is magic.”) With Stray Souls, Griffin introduces another character and what appears to second series set in the same magical universe; the MAGICALS ANONYMOUS series.
August 14th, 2013. Marion Deeds´s rating: 3 | Kate Griffin | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Driving Mr. Dead by Molly Harper
Miranda, daughter of two lawyers who own their own firm, has been a disappointing daughter. She doesn’t want to practice law, doesn’t want to marry her lawyer fiancé, and generally doesn’t want to conform to her family’s expectations. Unfortunately, every time Miranda thinks she’s found the perfect job for her talents and personality, some weird disaster happens and she ends up unemployed again.
She’s got a new job now — one she thinks she’s going to love. She’s a chauffeur for vampires. For her first assignment,
January 8th, 2013. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Molly Harper | Audio, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
The Inexplicables by Cherie Priest
The Inexplicables is the fifth book in Cherie Priest’s CLOCKWORK CENTURY series. This one returns to its roots, the walled, Blight-ridden city of Seattle. It’s 1881, and the American Civil War is still going on. Eighteen years earlier, a powerful mining device tapped into a vein of gas deep into the earth, and the gas spilled out into Seattle, killing most people and turning them into “rotters” or zombies. The source of the outbreak (downtown Seattle) was walled off and abandoned,
November 29th, 2012. Marion Deeds´s rating: 3.5 | Cherie Priest | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
Do it! One of the best things I've read in recent years.
This reminds me. I want to read Addie LaRue.
We’re in total agreement David!
I felt just the same. The prose and character work was excellent. The larger story was unsatisfying, especially compared to…
Hmmm. I think I'll pass.