Stories of the Raksura, Volume 2: The Dead City & The Dark Earth Below by Martha Wells
Note: This review will contain mild spoilers for the RAKSURA novels.
Here is the second volume containing the novellas and short stories written by Martha Wells to accompany her BOOKS OF THE RAKSURA. I really enjoyed the first volume, Stories of the Raksura, Volume 1. I liked the tight and focused nature of the novellas and short stories and thought they were actually,
June 29th, 2018. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Martha Wells | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
A Ghostly Light by Juliet Blackwell
A Ghostly Light is seventh book in Juliet Blackwell’s HAUNTED HOME RENOVATION MYSTERIES series. Like her WITCHCRAFT MYSTERIES series, each of these novels is a solid cozy paranormal mystery featuring pleasant characters and an enjoyable San Francisco setting. Fans of either series who don’t care that the books follow a formula should be pleased with A Ghostly Light.
This time Mel is renovating a lighthouse on an Island in San Francisco Bay,
July 19th, 2017. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Juliet Blackwell | Audio | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Widow’s Web is book seven in Jennifer Estep’s ELEMENTAL ASSASSIN series. I wasn’t too impressed with book six, By a Thread, but I continue to read the series because I’ve already purchased most of the books at Audible and, even though I recognize the problems with the plot and the writing, the truth is that I like Estep’s setting and characters well enough that I don’t mind reading the books in order to get them reviewed for FanLit.
October 28th, 2014. Kat Hooper´s rating: 2.5 | Jennifer Estep | Audio | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
When Will You Rise: Stories to End the World by Mira Grant
A novella set in the universe of the NEWSFLESH TRILOGY is the first, and the longest, of the two stories that make up Mira Grant’s When Will You Rise: Stories to End the World. Anyone who hasn’t read the NEWFLESH TRILOGY is likely to be a touch lost in “Countdown,” but not entirely: it is the story of the beginning of a plague, one inadvertently engineered by scientists and activists intending to do good,
October 31st, 2012. Terry Weyna´s rating: 4 | Mira Grant | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Pretty challenging book. Cut by half, speed up the cadence. Trying to figure out the plot, the main point of…
Thanks for the kind words, Marion! Coming as they are from a professional writer, they are much appreciated!
Wonderful review, Sandy.
The "body count" bothered me a bit less because being dead seemed more like an inconvenience than anything else... unlike…
Detailed, thoughtful review, Bill. I'm going to read it for two reasons. First, Karen Russell wrote it, and second, it…