I am going to gloat because this is really REALLY awesome for me. FanLit is one of the very first book review websites I started reading when I was contemplating the whole book reviewing thing. I’ve always admired the quality of reviews they post. I was absolutely floored when Stefan contacted me and asked me to…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book It is 1861, and Albertian Britain is in the grip of conflicting forces. Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier and dirtier technological wonders; Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labour; Libertines oppose restrictive and unjust laws and flood the country with propaganda demanding a society based on beauty and…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is hoping the Commander makes her pregnant, because she is only…
Continue ReadingInstead of posting a review today (I’m having another bad energy day so I just don’t have it in me) I’m going to ask a question of my dear readers about what YOUR gateway drugs of speculative fiction are. Continue reading to see what I’m talking about. I was online talking to a fellow speculative…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book From the acclaimed author of The Shape-Changer’s Wife comes a stunningly beautiful novel of a distant future–where the fate of the world rests in the voice of an angel. An age of corruption has come to the planet of Samaria, threatening that peace and placing the Samaritans in grave danger. Their only…
Continue ReadingNo fewer than five people must have recommended this book to me so of course I had to read it. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a hundred times; if I read a book in a day I either absolutely loved it or absolutely hated it. There is no middle ground on that…
Continue ReadingI don’t really know where to start with this book. I read it, and had to put it aside for a few days to fully process it before I could even contemplate reviewing it. The book is…different. In some respects subtle might be a good word for it. Among Others is written as a sort…
Continue ReadingThe Prestige is a book that I probably would have never read if it wasn’t on my tell me what to read list. There really isn’t any specific reasoning behind that. I just wasn’t really compelled by the storyline. However, after I mentioned I picked it up at the library several people on my Goodreads…
Continue ReadingSo, Amanda over on Floor to Ceiling Books is doing a Passion series to kind of familiarize her readers with who she is as a person. I thought this was an interesting idea and since I’m not reviewing a book today I figured I’d kind of do my own take on her idea. I found this…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book The ageless water witch Arahab has been scheming for aeons, gathering the means to awaken the great Leviathan. She aims to bring him and the old gods back to their former glory, caring little that their ascendance would also mean an end to the human race. However, awakening the Leviathan is no…
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