Blackout by Connie Willis My rating: 4 of 5 stars Oh, Ms. Willis! I cannot believe you did this to me! A cliffhanger? After 512 many pages? And I hung in there SO long in the beginning when the book…
Book Reviews: A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin My rating: 5 of 5 stars I finally got around to reading A Game of Thrones, even though the series still wasn’t finished when I started, because the television series was starting.
Book Review: The Horns of Elfland edited by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
The Horns of Elfland by Ellen Kushner My rating: 3 of 5 stars It took a while to track down this volume, as it has long been out of print. The interlibrary loan was, once again, my friend. But how…
Review: Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth
Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth My rating: 4 of 5 stars Blood Oath is an interesting and fairly refreshing variation on the vampire riff. Most of the current tales give us a suave, sexy predator who mesmerizes his or her…
Book Review: Changes by Jim Butcher
Changes by Jim Butcher My rating: 5 of 5 stars I do not give out many 5-star ratings, but for this book I couldn’t do anything else. That is despite the fact that Jim Butcher did something I honestly didn’t…
Review: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
American Gods by Neil Gaiman My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m trying to remember whether or not I’ve read any of Gaiman’s other novels before, and I’m fairly certain that I haven’t. I read Good Omens, but that was…
Reviews: Various Short Stories
I just finished reading a bunch of different short stories that have been lurking in various programs on my iTouch. While they are reviewed in separate entries on GoodReads, I’m going to try to put the reviews in one blog…
Book Review: Shift by Rachel Vincent
Shift by Rachel Vincent My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’m left with little to say that won’t be a spoiler other than, “Dangit, why can’t more authors work in some polyamory instead of using the same old jealousy-based plots?”…
Book Review: Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris
Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’d say that wraps it up for this series. No, I won’t tell you why I’m saying that, or it’ll ruin the book for you.
Review: Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb
Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb My rating: 4 of 5 stars Fantasy in Death is an interesting take on the death-by-gaming plot that has previously been done by a couple of fantasy and science fiction authors, most notably in…