“Plain Kate” by Erin Bow
Another review I wrote a few months ago but never got around to posting. It’s shorter than usual because it was meant to help me catch up with all the…
Read moreAnother review I wrote a few months ago but never got around to posting. It’s shorter than usual because it was meant to help me catch up with all the…
Read moreA Jewish immigrant to America needs a wife, but he’s never had any luck with women, so he commissions a golem – an immensely strong creature made of clay that…
Read moreI approached The Forever Knight with some trepidation because it was the fourth book in a series that I hadn’t read (The Bronze Knight), and I haven’t read a series…
Read moreThe Daylight War is Book 3 of the Demon Cycle (I reviewed book 1, but I never reviewed book 2, which is too bad since that’s the book that got…
Read moreThe Rise of Ransom City is the sequel to The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman, but also works very well as a stand alone book. It’s one of the best second…
Read moreI was pretty excited for Hunter and Fox, since I enjoyed Ballantine’s Books of the Order series. Hundreds of years ago, the Vaerli ruled the world until the Casiah removed their…
Read moreThe Half-Made World is a Western-inspired fantasy (is the fantasy/Western mashup a new trend now? I’ve read quite a few recently – Brandon Sanderson’s The Alloy of Law, and my last…
Read moreThe Six-Gun Tarot is a pretty mind-blowing book. It incorporates a million different ideas and tropes (for instance, the Christian creation myth, Native American myth, Chinese myth, horror, ghosts, angels,…
Read moreWarning: This review contains full spoilers! I have also written a spoiler-free review, though. I intended to get this review up much sooner, but I think I needed to let the book…
Read moreThere are no major spoilers in this review but you probably shouldn’t read it if you want to go into the book with an absolutely blank slate. For those on…
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