Heaven’s River by Dennis E. Taylor
Heaven’s River (2021) is the fourth book in Dennis E. Taylor’s amusing and intelligent BOBIVERSE series. You’ll first want to read the previous three books, We Are Legion (We Are Bob), For We Are Many, and All These Worlds, or you’ll be lost. This review will contain mild spoilers for the previous books.
By this point in the Bobiverse timeline,
November 13th, 2023. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Dennis E. Taylor | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
MONSTRESS 4: The Chosen by Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda
The saga continues with the fourth volume of Marjorie Liu and Sana Takenda‘s epic fantasy MONSTRESS, which at this point is so complex and intricate that it’s difficult to properly summarize it.
Set in an alternate matriarchal 19th century Asia, with a steampunk/art deco/Egyptian aesthetic, this is the story of Maika Halfwolf and the terrible demonic presence that resides within her, one that sporadically bursts forth to cause destruction and mayhem, but occasionally offering her advice and companionship as well.
March 24th, 2021. Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 4 | Marjorie M. Liu | Comics | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Star Wars: Poe Dameron Vol. 4: Legend Found by Charles Soule & Angel Unzueta
The fourth volume in the POE DAMERON series, which details the early conflict between the (still fledging) Resistance and First Order forces, really starts to line things up with the opening act of The Force Awakens in this issue — specifically, the search to find Lor San Tekka, an intergalactic explorer who may have clues to finding the location of Luke Skywalker.
Played by Max von Sydow in the movie, we’re introduced to him here breaking into a high security vault in order to study an ancient Jedi artefact.
June 26th, 2019. Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 4.5 | Charles Soule | Comics | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Deepest Blue by Sarah Beth Durst
Readers who have been anxiously awaiting more tales set within the lands of Renthia (and I am loudly, proudly one of them) are sure to be pleased by The Deepest Blue (2019), the latest from Sarah Beth Durst, which is billed as a stand-alone TALES OF RENTHIA novel and is set after the events of The Queen of Sorrow. The only true indicator of timeline is the appearance of one of my favorite people in all of Renthia,
April 12th, 2019. Jana Nyman´s rating: 4.5 | Sarah Beth Durst | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Demon: Volume 4 by Jason Shiga
So we come to it at last: the fourth and final instalment in Jason Shiga‘s Demon, detailing the misadventures (and catastrophic body-count) of Jimmy Yee, a one-time accountant who discovers he possesses the body of the person standing closest to him whenever he commits suicide.
As befits a final volume, Demon: Volume 4 is absolute, wall-to-wall insanity. There’s death, war, guns, massacres, catapults, baseball bats, kamakaze stunts — in fact,
March 22nd, 2019. Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 4 | Comics | SFF Reviews | no comments |
In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire
I didn’t have a great experience with the first WAYWARD CHILDREN book I read by Seanan McGuire — Every Heart a Doorway — which put me off the next few books in the series. But I decided to give the well-reviewed series another shot with In an Absent Dream (2019), and I’m glad I did as it certainly struck a far more responsive chord and has encouraged me to take a look at the others I’ve missed.
January 22nd, 2019. Bill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Seanan McGuire | Short Fiction, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Paper Girls (Vol 4) by Brian K. Vaughan
This is the fourth volume of Brian K. Vaughan’s Paper Girls, and we are finally given enough glimpses of the larger plot to make sense of what’s happened until this point.
[SPOILER TERRITORY AHEAD – DON’T READ UNLESS YOU’VE READ VOLUMES ONE-THREE]
After being thrown into the distant past and battling cavemen and befriending fierce natives, the girls once again in their future (and our past), namely during Y2K before the millenium.
January 5th, 2019. Stuart Starosta´s rating: 5 | Brian K. Vaughan | Comics | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
The Tengu’s Game of Go by Lian Hearn
At the beginning of THE TALE OF SHIKANOKO, Shikanoko’s father played a game with a tengu. He lost, and what he lost cast an entire kingdom into disaster. Shikanoko, whose birth name was Kazumaru, was tainted by sorcery and as much a victim as a wielder of it. Now, in The Tengu’s Game of Go, the second generation rises to try to set things right.
Lian Hearn’s four-book saga reads convincingly like a Japanese tale cycle,
December 6th, 2016. Marion Deeds´s rating: 4 | Lian Hearn | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
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