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Category: Review
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Review: Triple Header!
I think I have mentioned before that I do the vast majority of my reading on electronic devices. At the moment, that’s a cell phone, a tablet, and a device that used to be a cell phone and is now my reading-in-bed gadget. The tablet is too heavy for me to comfortably skooch under the…
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Review: Mistress of the Waves
Starships are meant to fly… So yes, I do listen to my daughter’s music from time to time. But that line caught me, and it came back as I finished Mistress of the Waves and started thinking more about the central premise of the story. George Phillies succeeded in doing something that rarely works out…
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Review: Sky Suspended
I have been trying to figure out who to compare this book to – as unfair as it sometimes seems, drawing a parallel between one work and another at least has the benefit of quickly conveying to the reader what to expect – and was considering the latter half of the Harrington series by David…
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Review: Last Flight From Queensland
I wanted to talk to you all, those of you who care to reply, anyway, about what you’d like to see here for reviews? Do you want me to find good stuff, and post happy reviews of things you might enjoy reading: in other words, only the good? Or do you want the randomness that…
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Review: The Black Goats
Last week I reviewed a fantasy full of sex that was, to say the least, less than a success. This week I will make up for it with a whole-hearted recommendation of Pam Uphoff’s Black Goats. Really, this whole series is excellent. Oh, and in keeping with the theme of the week, here are the…
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Review: Sort of
I know, I know, I’m horrible. *covers face with hands* I don’t have a formal review for you to read. I am going to tell you what i have been reading, and say, go get it! Why do I so cavalierly command? Well, it’s a classic, and it’s a dollar. You spend that much on…
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Review: Walls, Wires, Bars and Souls
I chose to read Peter Grant’s memoirs of his life as a prison chaplain even knowing it would be a difficult topic to read. I was right, on one level, and on another it is easier than I had ever expected. His experiences, while set within the most starkly terrifying walls any of us can…
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Free Story, and a Review of a Story Collection
First, this is the last day to get my story “Dwarf’s Dryad” for free. Download, share the link with your friends, and if you enjoy it, don’t forget to tip the author with a review! Also, I plan to put all my short stories on sale, in anticipation of the upcoming release of my new…
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Review: Shadow Hands
Since I had so little time for reading this week, I settled for reviewing a short story. David Pascoe’s tale, Shadow Hands, suffers from an unfortunate cover, but an accurate title. The mysterious hands are everywhere Melody Devereaux goes, reaching out of any shadows and in the darkness they grow bold. She sees them and…
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Review: Riders of the Winds
I was asked to review a novel about the history of aviation, and I agreed because I spent a lot of my younger years in the Civil Air Patrol, and obsessed with planes… As you will see, I think I would only recommend this book if you are very interested in Av history, about which…
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Review Friday
Today I review a story called Snow Angel, by Stryder Dancewolffe, at her behest, to compare and contrast the stories with two very similar titles, themes, and yet very different in content and style. Stryder’s novella is set in a world decimated by plague, where the mentally ill are discarded like broken dolls. One such…
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Review: Sharper Security
I read the short story Hitchhiking Killer for Hire, written by Thomas Sewell, and was rewarded with more than I had expected. Well plotted, with one of the best flashback sequences I have read in a short story, this little tale ties together no fewer than three time streams to form a action-packed story of…