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Necroscope III: The Source by Brian Lumley
Warning: This review will contain spoilers for the previous books, Necroscope. And Necroscope II: Vamphyri!. You’ll want to read those books before picking up this one.
Harry Keogh is back and now he’s got a body again. How that came about is a sad tale that you need to read about in Necroscope II: Vamphyri!. You’d think that all would be well now — Harry could get back with his wife and son and maybe life could somewhat normalize,
October 16th, 2018. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Brian Lumley | Audio, Horror | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
The Bat directed by Crane Wilbur
Although Vincent Price had appeared in a number of scary films before the late 1950s, it wasn’t until 1958 and ’59 that the beloved actor really began to concentrate his efforts in the fright field and thus become one of the true titans in the arena of horror. During those two years, Price starred in The Fly, House on Haunted Hill, The Tingler and The Bat, thus getting the ball rolling for one legendary horror career.
October 15th, 2018. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 3.5 | Film / TV, Horror | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
The Wizard’s Daughter by Jeff Minerd
This YA novel is a steampunk adventure filled with deft airship handling, daring mid-air rescues, and the dauntless search for long-estranged family ties.
The Wizard’s Daughter (2018) is the second book in the SKY RIDERS OF ETHERIUM series, and I haven’t read the first, The Sailweaver’s Son, but nevertheless found this book a perfectly accessible entry point into the series. Our narrative follows Brieze, the adopted/apprenticed daughter of a wizard resident within the west-lying Kingdom of Spire.
October 5th, 2018. Taya Okerlund´s rating: 3.5 | Jeff Minerd | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | 5 comments |
Barren (2018) is a novella-length (just over 130 pages in my ARC version) story that answers some questions left after the conclusion of Peter V. Brett’s DEMON CYCLE series. Specifically, what happened back at Tibbet’s Brook, the small village that was home to Arlen Bales and Renna Tanner, two of the protagonists of the Cycle.
The first point I want to make has more to do with marketing and target audience than the book itself.
September 24th, 2018. Bill Capossere, Jana Nyman and Tadiana Jones´s rating: 3.5 | Peter V. Brett | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds by Brandon Sanderson
If you’ve ever wondered what might happen if Batman’s rogues gallery was made up entirely from creations of his own mind (and only visible to himself) rather than individuals who are, more often than not, created as a result of his actions, then I recommend that you read Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds (2018). Compiled herein are two of Brandon Sanderson’s previously-published novellas, “Legion” (2012) and “Legion: Skin Deep” (2014), along with the concluding and never-before-seen third novella,
September 21st, 2018. Jana Nyman, Tadiana Jones and Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Brandon Sanderson | Audio | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Beyond the Stars: Unimagined Realms edited by Ellen Campbell & Patrice Fitzgerald
Beyond the Stars: Unimagined Realms (2018) is a space opera anthology released by Astral Books. I don’t know whether the realms in question are really unimagined. In some places they are pretty dimly lit.
A Lunar colony’s aroma of baking bread did enter into the narrative in “The Art of Baking Bread on the Moon” by David Bruns. Ah, fresh bread! But again, that’s more nostalgic.
My favorite story by some distance was “Adagio for Tiamat Station,” by Marion Deeds,
September 19th, 2018. Taya Okerlund´s rating: 3.5 | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Arabella the Traitor of Mars by David D. Levine
David D. Levine’s THE ADVENTURES OF ARABELLA ASHBY Regency fantasy trilogy wraps up in Arabella the Traitor of Mars (2018), which, appropriately, returns us to early 1800’s colonial-era Mars, where all the action began in Arabella of Mars. The series is an engaging melding of Jules Verne-style retro science fiction with Horatio Hornblower-type naval battles in the air above Mars,
September 5th, 2018. Tadiana Jones´s rating: 3.5 | David D. Levine | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Dallas Barr is a Stileman — one of the few humans who’ve paid a million pounds and given up all their assets to have their bodies rejuvenated. These folks need the process repeated every decade or so, so they spend that decade earning the money needed for the next treatment. To keep the Stilemen from gaining too much wealth and power, they’re required to give up their assets each time. This leads to the funding of many philanthropic initiatives around the world.
When Dallas and his girlfriend Maria discover a conspiracy affecting the Stileman Process,
August 31st, 2018. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Joe Haldeman | Audio, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Ninth Key is the second book in Meg Cabot’s MEDIATOR series about Suze, a high school student who can interact with restless ghosts. She helps them settle their affairs on Earth so they can move on to wherever they’re supposed to go (she doesn’t know what happens after they leave Earth). In Shadowland, the first MEDIATOR book, Suze and her mom had just moved from New York to northern California so her mom,
August 30th, 2018. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Meg Cabot | Audio, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire
Seanan McGuire’s novella Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day (2017) is a sensitive tale of love, loss, and regret — the kind that haunts people, turns them into ghosts, makes them flee thousands of miles from their homes, makes them linger somewhere long after it’s time for them to leave.
In 1972, Jenna Pace’s older sister Patty committed suicide in New York City, far away from her family home in Mill Hollow,
August 29th, 2018. Jana Nyman, Tadiana Jones and Skye Walker´s rating: 3.5, 5 | Seanan McGuire | Short Fiction, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
Do it! One of the best things I've read in recent years.
This reminds me. I want to read Addie LaRue.
We’re in total agreement David!
I felt just the same. The prose and character work was excellent. The larger story was unsatisfying, especially compared to…
Hmmm. I think I'll pass.