I have a soft spot for antiheros. I will, inevitably, read any book I hear of that has an antihero in it. I may not end up loving the book once it is read, but chances are, you say “antihero,” I will jump to read what it is you are talking about. One of the…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book I once knew this girl who thought she was God. She didn’t give sight to the blind or raise the dead. She didn’t even teach anything, not really, and she never told me anything I probably didn’t already know. On the other hand, she didn’t expect to be worshipped, nor did she…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book The gods, makers of worlds, seek to create balance—between matter and energy; and between mortals who strive toward the transcendent, and the natural perils they must tame or overcome. But one of the gods fashions a world filled with hellish creatures far too powerful to allow balance; he is condemned to live…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, she’s forced to take on her least favourite kind of job – missing persons. Being hired by…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book Dream of legends, and soar across the world of Ave… For Janus and the other exiles from a modern world, finding themselves in the fantastical lands of Ave was just the beginning. The assault upon the Kingdom of Saxany and the tribes of the Five Realms ignites, as the eyes of The…
Continue ReadingI’m back from my vacation in San Diego. I scheduled some reviews to be posted (and a discussion) while I was gone, so I’m hoping no one noticed I was missing other than my whole not pimping my reviews on twitter like I usually do. It hasn’t seemed to matter. For whatever reason, my blog…
Continue ReadingYou’ve probably noticed from the bar toward the top of my page that I tend to collect quotes. I’ve mentioned in a review or two that I once took a creative writing class. In this class one of our semester-long projects was to fill a notebook full of interesting quotes, words and descriptions we found…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book In a contemporary town in the American midwest where he has no connections, Bax, an educated man recently released from prison, is staying in a motel. He writes letters to his brother and to others, including a friend still in jail, to whom he progressively reveals the intriguing pieces of a strange…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book After an upbringing of proper behavior and oppressive expectations, Aralorn fled her noble birthright for a life of adventure as a mercenary spy. Her latest mission involves spying on the increasingly powerful sorcerer Geoffrey ae’Magi. But in a war against an enemy armed with the powers of illusion, how do you know…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book Friedman’s ( In Conquest Born ) exceptionally imaginative, compelling science fiction novel leaps ahead to the 24th century. For hundreds of years, Earth has suffered under the yoke of alien conquerors: the dreaded Tyr, a reptilian race in which all individuality is submerged into a single, overarching consciousness. Determined to keep humanity…
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