Skin Deep by Mark Del Franco My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is an intriguing beginning to a series. I’ve played a character with similar abilities in a long-running roleplaying game, so I was particularly interested in this book.…
Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline My rating: 5 of 5 stars Add this book to the shortlist of must-reads for every True Geek, right alongside Snow Crash. It’s a gleeful homage to geekdom and pop culture. Wade explains to…
Book Review: More Holmes for the Holiday edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Jon L. Lellenberg
More Holmes for the Holidays by Martin H. Greenberg My rating: 3 of 5 stars Martin H. Greenberg and company have provided a fine collection of Sherlockian holiday stories that fit in quite well with the traditional set. “The Christmas…
Book Review: Dragon Ship by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Dragon Ship by Sharon Lee My rating: 5 of 5 stars Sharon Lee and Steve Miller continue to please with this latest installment in the Liaden Universe series. Theo Waitley, now First Pilot on the sentient ship Bechimo, is in…
Book Review: Ghost Ship by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Ghost Ship by Sharon Lee My rating: 5 of 5 stars Theo Waitley has met her father’s Clan and been Seen by the Delm of Korval now, at the end of both I Dare and Saltation. She does not, however,…
Book Review: Saltation by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Saltation (Theo Waitley, #2) by Sharon Lee My rating: 5 of 5 stars Saltation (Theo Waitley, #2) is good enough that I finished Fledgling (Theo Waitley, #1), then read it in one sitting. It simply has the sort of momentum…
Review: Fledgling by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Fledgling (Theo Waitley, #1) by Sharon Lee My rating: 4 of 5 stars I half-listened to part of this book as Sam Chupp podcast it, chapter by chapter. For some reason, it just didn’t catch my fancy back then. I…
Book Review: Thirteen by Kelley Armstrong
Thirteen by Kelley Armstrong My rating: 5 of 5 stars Well, Armstrong definitely closed the series with a bang. I enjoyed this volume so much that I’m tempted to go back and re-read the entire series just to have more…
Book Review: Mouse and Dragon by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Mouse and Dragon by Sharon Lee My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m so pleased that Lee and Miller decided to give us the story of Daav and Aelliana after Pilots Choice. (Earlier they had claimed that there was nothing…
Book Review: Enthralled edited by Melissa Marr and Kelley Armstrong
Enthralled by Melissa Marr My rating: 3 of 5 stars Journeys, literal or otherwise, are the theme of this young adult anthology. Appropriately enough, it was conceived as the result of a book tour. “Giovanni’s Farewell” by Claudia Gray is…