Previous SFF Author: Carole Johnstone
Emily Kate Johnston is a forensic archaeologist by training, a bookseller by trade, and a grammarian by nature. Someday, she’s sure, she’s going to get the hang of this whole “real world” thing, but in the mean time she’s going to spend as much time in other worlds as she possibly can. When she’s not on tumblr, she dreams of travel and Tolkien. Or writes books. It really depends on the weather.
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A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston
When the dust rises over the desert, the villagers know that Lo-Melkhiin is coming with his guards to choose another wife. He always takes one wife from each village, or each district within a city. And she always dies.
E.K. Johnston’s A Thousand Nights is a young adult fantasy retelling of the Scheherazade framing story for One Thousand and One Nights, the famous collection of Persian, Arabic and Middle Eastern folk tales.
Tadiana Jones and Bill Capossere | E.K. Johnston | Stand-Alone, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | 7 comments |
It struck me on reading this YA novel that there’s a definite hierarchy to the stories that are told within the STAR WARS universe. Obviously the movies are the most important: they are seen by the most people, and encompass the most important events in the overarching space epic. They’re “tent-poles” so to speak.
In second place are the animated television shows such as The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels which build on the canon that’s laid out in the movies,
Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 3 | E.K. Johnston | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Our weekly sampling of free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. Here are some great stories that caught our eyes this week:
“A Kiss With Teeth” by Max Gladstone (2014, free at Tor.com, 99c Kindle Version)
Within the first two paragraphs “A Kiss With Teeth” has outlined an unusual premise: a vampire masquerades as human in order to be an ordinary husband and father. He isn’t blending in to feast on blood or evade capture, but simply to give his wife and especially his son a fighting chance at normalcy.
Previous SFF Author: Carole Johnstone
The black, white and blue is VERY striking, and carries the sense of a night sky and mystery.
Thanks, Kat, great input!
Marion, thanks for the audiobook article! Interestingly, they list All Systems Red by Martha Wells. Here's part of my review…
And, oh...as to that 2.5-star rating: I think I gave Damon Knight's "Beyond the Barrier" a similar halfhearted rating earlier…
And speaking of mixed, that's how the book left me...mixed! As in MIXED UP!