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Ashes of Honor by Seanan McGuire
Seanan McGuire has caused me to abandon work and kept me up nights more than any other author I’ve read recently. Her work is so compelling that I absolutely must find out what happens next. Ashes of Honor (2012) was no exception to this rule. It’s the sixth and latest in the OCTOBER DAYE series, and offers up new surprises about the knight and hero of the Court of Shadowed Hills, Toby Daye.
Toby is surprised herself when Etienne,
October 17th, 2012. Terry Weyna and Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 4, 5 | Seanan McGuire | Audio | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson
What if America’s Civil War had been, not a war of unification, but a war to end slavery? What if John Brown had succeeded at Harper’s Ferry?
In his short utopian novel Fire on the Mountain, Terry Bisson contemplates those questions.
Bisson’s story is simple and human, but he uses it to muse on how the Civil War could have gone differently. Yasmin Abraham Martin Odinga is an archeologist recently back from a dig in Olduvai,
October 17th, 2012. Marion Deeds´s rating: 4 | Terry Bisson | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Such Wicked Intent by Kenneth Oppel
Such Wicked Intent is the follow-up to This Dark Endeavour and as such puts us two-thirds of the way through Kenneth Oppel’s YA trilogy detailing the early years of Victor Frankenstein. And as the book ends with a very well known scene from early in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, well, it’s clear we have just about fully plumbed those early years.
Which is too bad, because Oppel has, ahem,
October 16th, 2012. Bill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Kenneth Oppel | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Kat Richardson’s GREYWALKER series perfectly unites the classic private investigator mystery with the paranormal fantasy. The mysteries are rigorous within the rules of the paranormal realm Richardson has invented; her background research is broad and utilized well; and her characters become deeper and more interesting with every new novel. The latest in the series, Seawitch, gives us insight into the character of Detective Rey Solis of the Seattle Police Department, who has been a pain in the side for PI Harper Blaine in the past,
October 16th, 2012. Terry Weyna and Marion Deeds´s rating: 4 | Kat Richardson | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
The Changeling Sea by Patricia A. McKillip
I’m a huge fan of Patricia McKillip’s work, but it’s taken me a while to get my hands on The Changeling Sea, and once read I found that it was a rather unique addition to her body of work. One of her earliest books (published back in 1988), and possibly her only work that was written specifically with a young audience in mind, The Changeling Sea is a slender novel with an extremely simple plot.
October 16th, 2012. Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 4 | Patricia McKillip | Stand-Alone, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | no comments |
That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
Nature is the ladder we have climbed up by. Now we kick her away.
That Hideous Strength is the final volume of C.S. Lewis’s SPACE TRILOGY. This story, which could be categorized as science fiction, dystopian fiction, Arthurian legend, and Christian allegory, is different enough from the previous books, Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, that you don’t need to have read them, but it may help to vaguely familiarize yourself with their plots.
October 12th, 2012. Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | C.S. Lewis | Audio | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
This Case is Gonna Kill Me by Phillipa Bornikova
One of the things I find most interesting in urban fantasy is when real-world problems intersect with fantasy problems in unexpected ways — the legal system being one of them. Thinking back to the early ANITA BLAKE novels, they dealt regularly with the weird legal issues that crop up when supernaturals are involved. Phillipa Bornikova continues in that tradition with This Case is Gonna Kill Me, featuring Linnet Ellery, a freshly minted lawyer who’s just been hired at a firm run by vampires.
October 11th, 2012. Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 4 | Phillipa Bornikova | SFF Reviews | 5 comments |
The Last Hunt by Bruce Coville
The fourth and final book in Bruce Coville’s THE UNICORN CHRONICLES was published nearly twenty years after the first came out, and it appears that Coville sought to make up for this delay by making The Last Hunt more than six times thicker than Into the Land of Unicorns.
It’s impossible to start The Last Hunt without having the first three already read, as the story dives straight into the action with no preamble.
October 11th, 2012. Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 4 | Bruce Coville | Children | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Tarnished Knight by Jack Campbell
As a fan of the LOST FLEET series by Jack Campbell, I was intrigued by a book written from the perspective of the “enemy.” With the Alliance victory over the Syndicate and the series moving on to another conflict, it’s a great time to start looking at what is going on with the Syndicate worlds. Thus, Tarnished Knight is the opening volume of LOST STARS, a spin-off series which runs parallel to events in the LOST FLEET series.
October 9th, 2012. John Hulet´s rating: 4 | Jack Campbell | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Resurrection Man by Sean Stewart
Not knowing who Sean Stewart was prior to reading Resurrection Man, it was more than a pleasant surprise to find such a well written book with poignant themes. Hiding on the margins of literature, Stewart’s novel tells the story of a Hungarian family living in the US and their attempts to come to terms with skeletons in the closet after WII, both personal and familial. But it is not the 1950’s America you know from history; magic in the form of charms and strange,
October 6th, 2012. Jesse Hudson´s rating: 4 | Sean Stewart | 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.