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Category: Review
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Review: Prime Pantry
It’s been a deliciously lazy Sunday morning here. While I have a gig this afternoon, I finished my math homework last night, and my Physics homework earlier in the week, so I have no due-dates for Monday looming and I could seize the opportunity to spend time with my husband chatting and sipping coffee. We…
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Review: Chicken Feet and Comfort Reading
No, no, I haven’t been cooking with chicken feet. Yes, I know it’s a thing. No, I really don’t plan to try it, although at least I know to take the chicken toenails off before serving. I’m talking about When Chicken Feet Cross the Highway by Alma Boykin. I’m always a sucker for Baba Yaga,…
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An Unusual Review: Solutrean Atlantis
As is my normal custom, I purchased this book with the intention of reading for review. I acquired Solutrean Atlantis: Chapters 1-8: Sample Chapters from Amazon, an estimated 77 pages for the sum of $2.99. I will admit freely that I acquired a copy of the book knowing that there were problems, and it was and…
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Curmudgeon Review: Greek Isles
Written by Sanford Begley I love Greek food and have been searching for a good Greek restaurant locally for a long time. This wasn’t it. I spotted the Greek Isles Restaurant in a strip mall in Liberty Township, Ohio last night as we were leaving a performance. Since we were hungry and heading out to…
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Review: Trial by Fire
I received a copy of this book in an unusual way: Chuck Gannon gave it to my First Reader and I as a wedding gift. He was apologetic about it, saying that he just didn’t have anything else with him to give us. But it is, I want him to know, the perfect symbolic gift…
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Review: Death’s Doors
I’ve enjoyed Lars Walker’s books for years, and this latest is no exception. This isn’t, I should say at the beginning, a light-hearted fun read. It is Human Wave, and it will make you think, and perhaps flinch a little. Biting social satire with a Christian bent, or perhaps Norse – although it is not…
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Review: A Lake Most Deep
As I started to read this, I commented that it is one of the most readable High Fantasy novels I have come across in quite some time. I revised that opinion very shortly thereafter. I’m talking about Rob Howell’s A Lake Most Deep, which suffers from an odd cover, and the mention by another reviewer…
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Curmudgeon Reviews: Cricket Trilogy
Written by Sanford Begley Michael Hooten has a trilogy about a Celtic Bard. The trilogy is named Cricket’s Song. It starts with A Cricket Learns to Sing moves through A Cricket At Court and finishes with The Cricket That Roared. It is a YA but don’t let that stop you. The story follows a destined lad…
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Review: Scent of Metal
This was a case of perfect timing. I didn’t plan it, this just happened in a bit of happy serendipity. On the week that New Voyage flew by Pluto, I am reviewing a book that centers around, and in, Pluto. We begin with the story on Pluto, with a young scientist who is part of…
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Curmudgeon Review: Harvest of Evil
Written by Sanford Begley I hesitated to do this review. I like William Lehman and wanted to do a jump up and down happy review. I can’t quite do that. I can give a positive review and will. We will start with the best part of the book, Harvest of Evil, which in my opinion…
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Review: Bane of the Dead
One of the fun things about conventions is meeting new people. A dapper couple dressed to the nines bought Vulcan’s Kittens and The God’s Wolfling from me at the LibertyCon Author’s Alley. I snapped a picture, as I am wont to do, and the convention swirled on and around me like streams of chaos and…
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Reviews: Sleeping Duty and Minivandians
Yesterday morning I started to feel unwell, and laid down, thinking that I could take some time and cut the con crud off at the knees. I was mistaken. By the time my husband got home from work I was a mess, and had refused to allow myself to actually sleep because I needed to…