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Category: Review
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Review: Tom
Continuing with my impromptu Young Adults reading week, I offer you Tom, by Dave Freer. While not sold exclusively as young adult, and certainly eminently readable by all ages, Tom is going to be appealing to teen boys (and girls who don’t want a romance as the central plot all the time). I’ve been a…
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Review: Brings the Lightning
One of my favorite authors, and a friend I’m pleased to say, is Peter Grant. Peter’s work is usually space opera, and darn good ones at that. But today is the launch date for his newest book, and it’s something completely different. If you’re thinking that looks like a Louis L’Amour cover, you’re spot on.…
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Review: Gods Defense
Right up front, I’m going to explain why the title isn’t bad grammar. Because for some reason it was throwing me every time I saw it, until I started reading and went ‘oh!’ The Gods Defense is what someone dubbed the excuse a criminal could use when the gods made them commit a crime. Sort…
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Review: Honor from Ashes
I haven’t been able to read – no time! – for about two weeks. I made the time for this book. First, I’d been looking forward to Honor from Ashes, the third book in the Honor and Duty series. Second, I really needed some relaxation time and I knew that this book would be well-enough written…
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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Eyes of a Doll
Written by Sanford Begley I believe I reviewed Rob Howell’s first book A Lake Most Deep earlier. If I didn’t I should have. Howell makes an interesting combination of Noir detectives and Byzantium locations that is funny and straight at the same time. His latest, The Eyes Of A Doll is no exception. I must…
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Review: Twofer
Two reviews in one post! And from two very different books, at that. Elliott Kay’s Poor Man’s Fight is a space opera, with familiar themes that will resonate with many of my readers as they did with me. Tanner Malone, our hero, starts out as a highschool kid taking the Test which will determine the…
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Review: Kraken Mare
I read yesterday (sort of) even though I didn’t really have the time to read. I’d actually started it the night before, when I was having trouble sleeping, which was a mistake and I had to force myself to put it down after about 3 chapters. Really. I was looking for a book to put…
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Review Roundup
Today’s reviews are a diverse selection. No matter what your tastes, there is likely to be a pleaser in here! For a fun, flirty romantic short story, try Inappropriate Behavior. I designed the cover, and reading this wasn’t something I would have done normally, but I’m happy I took the chance. A contemporary romance with more…
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Review: Tears of the Jaguar
I picked this book up on a whim through the Kindle Unlimited program. Tears of the Jaguar by AJ Hartley, an author I don’t know and a story that was readable but not satisfying. It’s ostensibly an archaeology tale, but the archaeology practiced in the book makes me wince, as it is more the hack-and-grab…
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Review: Chicken Feet and the Firebird
Anyone who has read my posts and books will probably have picked up that I have an affection for Russian Fairy Tales. This is due in no small part to the very first book I ever owned. It was given to me at birth, and it’s a collection of beautifully illustrated fairy tales. The Frog…
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Blast from the Past: Redneck Manifesto
This was published three years ago, but I realized yesterday it had gotten lost when I switched blog hosts. Fortunately I have access to archives. He’s written a snarky take on the Glass Ceiling which reminded me that I had read him before. I had to review a book for my Cultural Anthropology class.…
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Restaurant Review: Cincinnati’s Brew House
We had the opportunity recently to get together with a friend in Cincinnati and he recommended we meet up at the Brew House. Since this was more about getting together and the conversation than the food, I wasn’t really thinking about it at first. The Brew House is an inconspicuous, blocky building that had plenty…