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The Waters Rising by Sheri S. Tepper
It pains me to DNF this book. Sheri Tepper is one of my favorite authors. Her novel The Family Tree is one of my all time favorite books. But I can’t make myself continue reading The Waters Rising. I have tried for over a month to read this book, and the same thing happens every time — I find my attention wandering after about five minutes. I think this can be attributed to three different things.
September 2nd, 2010. Ruth Arnell and Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 0.1 | Sheri S. Tepper | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
The Hounds of Avalon by Mark Chadbourn
The Hounds of Avalon is the third book in Mark Chadbourn’s DARK AGE trilogy, which continues the story of England after the Fall described in the author’s earlier AGE OF MISRULE trilogy. A noticeable difference between the two trilogies is that the AGE OF MISRULE follows the same group of five main characters, the Brothers and Sisters of Dragons, throughout all three books. The DARK AGE trilogy introduces one set of characters in book 1,
July 13th, 2010. Stefan Raets´s rating: 0.1 | Mark Chadbourn | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Bullet begins with Anita slipping backstage at a dance recital. Her former friend Monica forgot the hat for her son’s costume, so Anita brings it to her, and the two women have a bit of a spat. Then, in chapter two, Anita sits down to watch the performance with her various boyfriends and —
Wait.
When I was a preteen, I used to read the BABY-SITTERS CLUB series. There’s one cardinal rule for reading BSC books: Skip chapter two.
July 5th, 2010. Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 0.1 | Laurell K. Hamilton | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
Happy Hour of the Damned by Mark Henry
How to review a book that is unquestionably excellent at what it’s trying to do, but which I didn’t finish? Happy Hour of the Damned is, in short, shallow, disgusting, infuriating, and damned good at it.
Happy Hour stars Amanda Feral, a fashion-obsessed zombie. Zombies, in Mark Henry‘s world, can stay well-preserved forever as long as they eat a steady diet of human flesh. There’s only one other thing zombies can consume without getting violently ill: booze.
June 16th, 2010. Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 0.1 | Mark Henry | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll
I know Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll has gotten really good reviews, and is supposed to be the source material for the Sandman graphic novels by Neil Gaiman, but 50 pages in to the story, I didn’t care about any of the characters and the only fantastical thing that had happened was the main character, a self-involved woman named Cullen, started having weird serial dreams about a talking dog and a young boy named Pepsi.
June 14th, 2010. Ruth Arnell´s rating: 0.1 | Jonathan Carroll | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
Merlin’s Harp by Anne Eliot Crompton
Reading Merlin’s Harp, I realized something about novels that portray the interaction between the human world and Faerie. They usually don’t tell the stories of fae folk in their own homeland. There are exceptions, of course, but authors tend to focus on faeries stuck in the human world, or humans encountering Faerie. I think I may know why that is. When writing about faeries living in Faerie, it’s all too easy to have nothing happen.
Anne Eliot Crompton uses beautiful,
June 9th, 2010. Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 0.1 | Anne Eliot Crompton | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Dark Prince by Christine Feehan
Mikhail Dubrinsky is the leader of the Carpathians, a powerful race that is dying out due to lack of females. Raven Whitney, a human, is vacationing in the Carpathian Mountains after using her telepathic skills to help catch a serial killer. Raven senses Mikhail’s distress and the two of them realize they have a connection to each other. Raven may be the life mate that Mikhail thought he’d never find and she represents hope for the Carpathians.
Ugh. I really hated Dark Prince and,
June 8th, 2010. Kat Hooper and Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 0.1, 2 | Christine Feehan | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Finders Keepers by Gayle Greeno
Finders Seekersis the first book in Gayle Greeno’s Ghatti’s Tale series. The Ghattis are large telepathic catlike creatures who lifebond with humans. Together, the two serve as a truthseeker team, sifting through the thoughts of people involved in civil and criminal disputes. When someone starts killing the Ghattis and their human companions, the Ghatti Khar and her bondmate Doyce set out to unlock the secret behind the deaths, and attempt to hold the world of Methuen together.
One of the goals we have at FanLit is to get a review up for every author in our database.
May 31st, 2010. Ruth Arnell´s rating: 0.1 | Gayle Greeno | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Shalador’s Lady by Anne Bishop
Remember how, during my review (above) of The Shadow Queen by Anne Bishop I said that if you haven’t read any of the series before now, you should just skip the review? Well, allow me to reiterate that sentiment for Shalador’s Lady. Because trust me, you will have no clue what’s going on here. THE BLACK JEWELS SERIES can usually be summed up much like anime: it’s complicated.
In The Shadow Queen we met Cassidy,
May 12th, 2010. Beth Johnson Sonderby (guest)´s rating: 0.1 | Anne Bishop | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Choir Boats by Daniel A. Rabuzzi
The Choir Boats is set in an alternate 1812 London in which famous fictional characters exist alongside historical personages. As the novel begins, we meet a small cadre of Londoners who are all dissatisfied with their lives in one way or another, and their interest is piqued when they learn of the fantasy world of Yount, where they may be able to find their hearts’ desires.
A common device in fantasy literature is the misdirection spell. A sorcerer casts this on a person or object,
April 15th, 2010. Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 0.1 | Daniel A. Rabuzzi | 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…