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Category: Review
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Review: Escape
I was given a copy of Escape: Rough Hewn Book II by Nadia Kilrick for review. I really have to stop volunteering for these sorts of things. Well, ok, last week’s book wasn’t too bad, and a few weeks ago the Muses of Roma was amazingly unexpectedly good. And there have been books I read,…
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Review: Escape from the Village
Reading this book moved me to contemplate what it is that makes YA work for young people, but not as well for the grown-ups. It’s not just me, and I also know that a lot of adults enjoy the current wave of YA dystopian speculative fiction. So what is it? I think, as I was…
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Review: Cannibal Gold
I don’t know if I have mentioned it before, but growing up I read a lot of my father’s books. To be honest, I read everything in sight, but… this is relevant to today’s review. I don’t remember the first Clive Cussler I read, and it didn’t take me long to know they were all…
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Review: Muses of Roma
So sometime last week or maybe the week before? *mumbles under breath* time keeps dilating on me… Anyway, this is your sleep-deprived book review. I got an email saying “I see you review books on the blog, would you mind terribly taking a look at mine?” Or words to that effect, and my first reaction…
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Review: A Few Good Men
The other day I announced in a group of friends that I wasn’t feeling up to snuff, I was going to catch up on reading, so I was taking A Few Good Men to bed with me. Hilarity ensued. Most of them have read this book, as the group in question is formed of fans…
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Review: Nocturnal Origins
I read Amanda S. Green’s Nocturnal Origins quite a while ago. And then Nocturnal Haunts, the novella bridge, and Nocturnal Serenade, the sequel novel. Why am I doing a long form review now? Well, because after much impatient waiting, Nocturnal Interlude is coming out! The third book in the series will be available for purchase…
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2013 In Review
Cross-posted at Amazing Stories Magazine While I have taken the time to look back at my reviews over the course of the year, this post is more about reviewing than it is the year. At some point in 2013 I decided that the only way to keep myself reading was to commit to reading books…
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Pixie Noir Reviewed
‘Pixie Noir’ author possesses talent Posted: Sunday, December 29, 2013 12:00 am (link is behind a paywall) By MARK LARDAS (snipped) What follows is a rollicking fantasy adventure. If you have ever wondered what literary cocktail would result from a mix of Mercedes Lackey’s Bardic Voices novels, Larry Corriea’s Monster Hunter tales, the detective novels of Dashiell…
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Review: Mostly Murder
This was a great find. One of the pulp paperbacks I picked up as part of a bundle at the Peddlar’s Market a while back, Frederic Brown’s collection of crime short stories, Mostly Murder, has some real zingers in it. They aren’t all terribly mysterious, but his obsession with carnivals and circuses, tough guys and…
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Review: Wild Food!
Vegetarian Wild Game Cookbook by Rick Black My rating: 4 of 5 stars What’s not to like? If you hunt, this will be an invaluable companion for tasty meals from your kill, and plenty of chuckles as you read the introduction. I knocked a star off because it includes raccoon recipes, and we all know…
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Revew: Strange tales, Weird West
A while back I offered to review Strange Trails, an anthology edited by James Palmer, for Amazing Stories Magazine. I’m not sure what to call this genre, other than, of course, strange. It’s a Wild West, all right, with robots, ghosts, bound spirits, Pinkerton Men, and a large dollop of Lovecraftian Horror. I grew up…
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A Lovely Review
And not one I wrote, but rather written on Vulcan’s Kittens by Margot St. Aubin, who gave a fascinating perspective to my work that I hadn’t even fully acknowledged while writing it. I’m not Catholic, but my background is deeply religious, and I’m certain that C.S. Lewis’s Narnia lent a lot to my writing, especially…