Posted by Marion Deeds | Jun 21, 2022 | SFF Reviews | 0
Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper In 2021’s effervescent Payback’s a Witch, the stakes are low, hearts are worn on people’s sleeves, and love is the answer. (Note: No hearts are literally outside the body in this book.) Lana Harper, who writes YA fantasy as Lana Popovic, enters the world of adult paranormal romantic comedy […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Jan 28, 2022 | SFF Reviews | 0
You Sexy Thing by Cat Rambo You Sexy Thing (2021) is space opera, with no FTL chase scenes or space battles. Check the list of ingredients: a sentient bioship, space pirates, old feuds, at least one interstellar-conquest scheme, interesting non-human characters, a newcomer with secrets, and lots of cooking. It’s a foolproof recipe for entertainment. […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Nov 3, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 0
Grave Reservations by Cherie Priest Leda Foley is trying to keep her single-person travel agency afloat. Grady Merritt is a Seattle PD detective away at a conference. When Leda changes his return flight plans without notice or explanation, she saves his life — and outs herself as a psychic. Back home in Seattle, Grady hires […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Oct 18, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 0
No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull No Gods, No Monsters (2021) is one of the books that had me admiring it more than enjoying it. Strongly crafted on a sentence level, built on a structure both complex and deftly handled, and dealing with some seriously weighty themes, the book still left me, despite all […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Sep 3, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Desert Prince by Peter V. Brett The Desert Prince is the newest installment in Peter V. Brett’s fantasy universe where humans have been battling demons for ages. The prior series (THE DEMON CYCLE) ended mostly in seeming victory for the good guys (the humans), but as is often the case in these sorts of […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Jul 30, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Empire’s Ruin by Brian Staveley The Empire’s Ruin (2021) kicks off a new series in Brian Staveley’s universe first introduced in his CHRONICLES OF THE UNHEWN THRONE trilogy and then expanded upon via the standalone novel, Skullsworn. The new series, ASHES OF THE UNHEWN THRONE, is a direct sequel to the earlier trilogy, and […]
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Posted by Jana Nyman | Jul 15, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 2
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers Becky Chambers’ first novella in the MONK AND ROBOT series, A Psalm for the Wild-Built (2021), is a lovely and optimistic tale of a tea monk who, while seeking an answer to the question of “What am I looking for?” meets a robot looking for an answer […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Jun 30, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 0
For the Good of the Realm by Nancy Jane Moore 2021’s For the Good of the Realm is a gender-swapped swashbuckler heavily inspired by Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers. Author Nancy Jane Moore creates a world of nation-states much like France and its neighbors of the Musketeers. Against this backdrop, Anna D’Gart, a swordswoman in […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Jun 8, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman The Blacktongue Thief (2021), by Christopher Buehlman, is a book that more than most will either win you over or not by virtue of its voice. More specifically, the bawdy, vulgar, romantic, scatological, jaded, at times lyrical (sometimes literally) voice of its thief narrator Kinch Na Shannack. For me, […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | May 12, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 2
Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders 2021’s Victories Greater That Death is the first book in Charlie Jane Anders’s new Young Adult space opera series, UNSTOPPABLE. The book is filled with smart, heroic young people, extraterrestrials, space adventures, horrifying villains, bad food and plenty of relationships, as six Terran humans get pulled up […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | May 7, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 0
Oddity by Eli Brown 2021’s Oddity is a wonderful middle-grade adventure, with a valiant and compassionate young heroine, a beguiling take on alternate early-USA history, and a plethora of action and magic. Adults who read it with younger readers might discover it sparks a serious conversation about loyalty, values, and how we decide what’s right […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Mar 25, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 1
A Hole in the Sky by Peter F. Hamilton Hazel, who’s 16, lives on a huge starship called Daedalus. It left Earth around 900 years ago with plans to terraform a new habitable planet. But when they arrived, they found a nearly sentient species that they didn’t want to disturb, so they decided to try […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Mar 18, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 0
Weaver’s Folly by Sarah Madsen Warm weather’s coming, and pandemic restrictions are easing as vaccines become readily available, at least in the USA. It’s almost the time of year for a beach book, a park book, a camping book or even just a sitting-on-the-front-porch-sipping-iced-tea book, and Sarah Madsen’s Weaver’s Folly (2021) is an excellent candidate. […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Mar 11, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Councillor by E.J. Beaton E.J. Beaton’s The Councillor (2020) is a political fantasy whose smooth prose carries one smartly if slowly through the well-worn grooves of the genre. And therein one can see both the novel’s strengths and its weaknesses, which together result in a solid if somewhat overly long and overly familiar story. […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Mar 1, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 4
The Conductors by Nicole Glover The Conductors (2021), by Nicole Glover, has lots of elements I’d normally eat up like a buffet: a historical setting (late 1800s Philadelphia), a focus on social injustice, a murder mystery, magic systems. Unfortunately, the elements never cohered into a story that held my attention, making the novel a real […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Feb 10, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 2
Reposting to include Tadiana’s new review. A History of What Comes Next by Sylvain Neuvel Sylvain Neuvel’s A History of What Comes Next (2021) has both an intriguing premise and a potentially tense conflict at its core, but due to some issues with structure and style, the execution didn’t allow the book to achieve its […]
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Posted by Tadiana Jones | Jan 8, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 2
Blood Heir by Ilona Andrews This review is part of the Blood Heir blog tour (#BloodHeirKD). Julie is returning home to Atlanta after a long eight-year absence. Kate Daniels’ adopted daughter is now twenty-six, and she’s been busy the past eight years: fighting with the Canaanite god Moloch, the Child Eater, stealing one of his […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Dec 16, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Mask of Mirrors by M.A. Carrick As a reader, it’s rare for me to find a book that has nearly every trope I love. The Mask of Mirrors (2021), Book One of M.A. Carrick’s ROOK AND ROSE series, manages just that. Reading the Advance Reader Copy of this book was like nibbling my way […]
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