The Game of Sunken Places by M.T. Anderson The Game of Sunken Places has at its core several relatively humdrum concepts: a board game that plays for real, a hidden kingdom, two friends (one timid, one outgoing), a race to save the (or a) world. This isn’t so bad since so much fantasy works with […]
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The Suburb Beyond the Stars by M.T. Anderson As a reader, I find M.T. Anderson a bit all over the map. I tend to see his strongest work as aimed at the older crowd, while his children’s novels tend to leave me a bit cold. That was the case with The Game of Sunken Places, […]
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The Empire of Gut and Bone by M.T. Anderson The Empire of Gut and Bone is the third book of the Norumbegan Quartet by M.T. Anderson, coming after The Game of Sunken Places and its sequel The Suburb Beyond the Stars. Unfortunately, it has many of the same problems as those first two books, which […]
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The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson “I do not believe they ever meant unkindness.” So Octavian says of those to whom he was an experiment, to those who claimed he was chattel, to those who weighed his excrement daily and compared it to his intake. It is perhaps this book’s most frightening truth that he […]
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Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories by Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (eds.) Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories is a new young adult collection edited by veteran anthologists Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant. Featuring twelve conventional short stories and two graphic entries, Steampunk! showcases a wide variety […]
Read MoreKelly Lasiter´s rating: 4 | Cassandra Clare, Cory Doctorow, Delia Sherman, Garth Nix, Holly Black, Kelly Link, Libba Bray, M.T. Anderson, Ysabeau S. Wilce | Short Fiction, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Pals in Peril (Thrilling Tales) — (2005-2011) Ages 9-12. Publisher: What sort of madman would unleash an army of stilt-walking, laser-beaming, thoroughly angry whales upon the world? Who cares! All that matters is that his dastardly plan be foiled. Lucky for Lily Gefelty, her two best friends are the intrepid stars of their own middle-grade […]
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