I’m still terribly behind on my reviews, but I did get to interview author Brian McClellan a few weeks ago. I tore through the first two books of Brian’s Powder…
Read moreInterview with author Mur Lafferty + giveaway
I read and loved Mur Lafferty’s Shambling Guides books (The Shambling Guide to New York City and Ghost Train to New Orleans) last month, and I’m very excited to be able…
Read moreInterview with author Marie Brennan + GIVEAWAY
I got to interview Marie Brennan, the author of A Natural History of Dragons and its recently released sequel The Tropic of Serpents, which I consider one of the best…
Read more“A Natural History of Dragons” and “The Tropic of Serpents” by Marie Brennan
When I first saw the cover of A Natural History of Dragons, I knew I was going to love the book. (I know the adage about not judging a book…
Read more“The Black Count” by Tom Reiss
I’m trying to read more diversely this year, and I finally read some non-fiction. I won an ARC of this book way back in 2012 but never got around to…
Read more“Words of Radiance” by Brandon Sanderson
Some context for this review: I’m a huge Brandon Sanderson fan, and I thought The Way of Kings was his best book, so I was really sure I would love this…
Read more“Arrows of the Queen” by Mercedes Lackey
I’ve been wanting to read Mercedes Lackey for a long time, but she’s so prolific that I had no idea where to start! But then I received Arrows of the…
Read more“Expiration Day” by William Campbell Powell
I’ve started avoiding the entire YA genre because pretty much every book I hear about seems to involve an implausible dystopia built around societies of arbitrarily capitalised Nouns and a…
Read more“The Quiet War” by Paul McAuley
The Quiet War is set in the 23rd century in a fully colonised solar system. War is brewing between conservative Earth and the solar system colonists called Outers, who push…
Read more“Consider Phlebas” by Iain M. Banks
I’ve heard a lot about Iain M. Banks’ Culture universe, but hadn’t read any of his books for a long time. I was inspired by the start of the new…
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