Book Reviews
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WILD SEED by Octavia E. Butler (BOOK REVIEW)
“She shook her head. She knew now how the slaves had felt as they lay chained on the bench, the slaver’s hot iron burning into their ... -
A TERRIBLE FALL OF ANGELS by Laurell K. Hamilton (BOOK REVIEW)
A new series by Laurell K Hamilton, featuring a male protagonist. Enter, Zaniel Havelock (Havoc), a police Detective, veteran, and former student at the cult – ... -
THE WINTER DUKE by Claire Eliza Bartlett (BOOK REVIEW)
When sixteen-year-old Ekata wakes up to find that her entire backstabbing royal family has been cursed into unconsciousness, she’s forced into the role of Grand Duke ... -
THE BLOOD OF ANGELS by Johanna Sinisalo: 2011, translated by Lola Rogers 2014 (BOOK REVIEW)
“Bees can sense electrical charges in the air and feel magnetic fields. It’s pretty obvious that if there are such things as portals, doors, thin places ... -
THE LAST GRADUATE by Naomi Novik (BOOK REVIEW)
This book is the sequel to A Deadly Education, which was flat-out amazing if you like slightly dark and broody sarcastic protagonists and unique world building. ... -
LORD OF SECRETS by Breanna Teintze (BOOK REVIEW)
Lord of Secrets manages to pull off a great adventure, some awesome worldbuilding, and some brilliant character work, all in a lighthearted romp that is exciting ... -
IMAGO by Octavia E. Butler (BOOK REVIEW)
“I wasn’t surprised this time. My body wanted him. My body sought to please him. What would happen to me when I had two or more ... -
TWENTY FIVE TO LIFE by R.W.W.Greene – THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
This is an (increasingly) occasional series of posts drawing on my excursion into the academic side of creative writing doing a PhD project at Queen’s University ... -
BRIGHTFALL by Jaime Lee Moyer (BOOK REVIEW)
When I first heard that there was going to be a magical Robin Hood story that picked up years after the heyday of the Merry Men, ... -
ADULTHOOD RITES by Octavia E. Butler (BOOK REVIEW)
“Human beings fear difference,” Lilith had told him once. “Oankali crave difference. Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and ...
