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November 7, 2011
Knight’s Curse, by Karen Duvall
From the back cover: Orphan. Crusader. Angel. Thief. A skilled knife fighter since the age of nine, Chalice knows what it’s like to live life on the edge—precariously balanced between the dark and the light. But the time has come to choose. The evil sorcerer who kidnapped her over a decade ago requires her superhuman [...]
Knight's Curse, by Karen Duvall
From the back cover: Orphan. Crusader. Angel. Thief. A skilled knife fighter since the age of nine, Chalice knows what it's like to live life on the edge—precariously balanced between the dark and the light. But the time has come to choose. The evil sorcerer who kidnapped her over a decade ago requires her superhuman [...]
November 1, 2011
Schism: Part 1 of Triad, by Catherine Asaro 0 (0)
Synopsized From Back Cover: Return to the early years of the Skolian Empire. Strife has riven the Skolian royal family. Sauscony, the eldest Skolian daughter, is ready to seek her fortune as an officer-in-trining in the military. When her father forbids her to undertake such a dangerous path, a wedge is formed as Soz chooses [...]
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Schism: Part 1 of Triad, by Catherine Asaro
Synopsized From Back Cover: Return to the early years of the Skolian Empire. Strife has riven the Skolian royal family. Sauscony, the eldest Skolian daughter, is ready to seek her fortune as an officer-in-trining in the military. When her father forbids her to undertake such a dangerous path, a wedge is formed as Soz chooses [...]
October 24, 2011
A Canticle For Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Every now and then, I try to pick up a classic SF novel. This one was published in the year I was born (hmm—let's not make a big deal about its age, okay?) and I hadn't read it. I picked it because it's obviously memorable; it's always brought up by other SF readers (you've read [...]
October 17, 2011
Bloodlands, by Christine Cody
My husband won this for me in a drawing at the Ace/Roc presentation at Renovation (World SF Convention in Reno). The front tagline: They called it the New Badlands—Until the vampire came… That was interesting, until I turned it over and read the top blurb. "A great, edgy, fresh twist on paranormal romance. Brilliant!" by [...]
October 10, 2011
The Bone Palace, by Amanda Downum
I loved the first book in Downum's Necromancer Chronicles, called The Drowning City, which I covered in this post. This second book was just as impressive, set in a detailed and lush society, with multi-dimensional characters. As with the first book, there are multiple subplots and "games" being played, for very high stakes. All of [...]
October 6, 2011
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
In preparation for Peter Jackson's movie, The Hobbit, I decided to pull out Tolkien's classic children's tale and re-read it. It's been two decades since I last read it, because I don't read this book as frequently as I read Tolkien's Lord of the Rings (LOTR). It was as delightful as I remember and since [...]
October 3, 2011
The Cardinal's Blades, The Alchemist in the Shadows, by Pierre Pevel
Pevel's series will envelope the reader in seventeenth-century Paris, but it's not our Paris, because here be dragons. If you look these books up on Amazon.com, you may see some snotty comments (I don't know how else to describe them) which say, "This is just The Three Musketeers with dragons." No, it isn't. Brush off [...]
August 23, 2011
Embassytown, by China Miéville
I am in awe of China Miéville's world-building talents. His SF presents concepts and ideas that are thought-provoking, engaging, and just plain impressive (in the "I wish I could have come up with this" category). However, I wish he would put as much effort and ingenuity into his story and character motivations. More on that [...]
