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Book Review: Cold Fire by Kate Elliott (four stars)

Book Review: Cold Fire (Spiritwalker #2) by Kate Elliott (four stars) “To give trust is to gain trust. To withhold it until there is no doubt, is not trust.” Continued fun and adventure in a steampunk parallel world with Napoleon, … Continue reading →

Book Review: River of Gold by Anthony Riches (four stars)

Book Review: River of Gold (Empire #11) by Anthony Riches (four stars) ‘I always wondered what a man had to do to get himself immortalised in stone! I’d have been happy never to have found out though.’ Subset of the … Continue reading →

Book Review: The Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell (four stars)

Book Review: The Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell (four stars) “You are tall for a reason. When your head is high, you can see farther than anyone else.”  Well-researched and well-told historical fiction. Russell fictionalizes real … Continue reading →

Book Review: Stranger Suns by George Zebrowski (four stars)

Book Review: Stranger Suns by George Zebrowski (four stars) “I feel like a canoe builder inside an ocean liner.” “If this is an alien ship, then we’re not alone in the galaxy.” As convoluted as a Dostoyevsky novel. Or hungover … Continue reading →

Book Review: Pawn by Timothy Zahn. (three stars)

Book Review: Pawn (Sybil’s War #1) by Timothy Zahn. (three stars) “We’re currently a thousand light-years from Earth. Everything you’ve ever known is far, far behind us. And you’ll never see any of it again.” Zahn tells his story well … Continue reading →

Book Review: The Scorpion’s Strike by Anthony Riches (three stars)

Book Review: The Scorpion’s Strike (Empire #10) by Anthony Riches (three stars) Sometimes you have to forget your own safety in this life and do the one thing that nobody expects. Historical fiction light. Another Roman superhero exploit. Action-packed, if … Continue reading →

Book Review: The Well of Ascension (Mistborn #2) by Brandon Sanderson (four stars)

Book Review: The Well of Ascension (Mistborn #2) by Brandon Sanderson (four stars) Some called her paranoid. She thought herself prepared. 2024 review: Better the second time. Sanderson is a great storyteller. I raised my 2009 rating to four stars. … Continue reading →

Book Review: Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (five stars)

Book Review: Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (five stars) “I was dead. And yet, titanic as was that sense of loss, there existed a keener one …. That our story would perish with us. That no one would ever … Continue reading →

Book Review: The Icarus Plot by Timothy Zahn (four stars)

Book Review: The Icarus Plot (Icarus Saga #1) by Timothy Zahn (four stars) Irritating someone for no reason was always a bad move, especially when that person had already asked permission to shoot you. Even though this novel was written … Continue reading →

Book Review: The Narrow Road between Desires by Patrick Rothfuss, illustrations by Nate Taylor (four stars)

Book Review: The Narrow Road between Desires (Kingkiller Chronicle #2.6) by Patrick Rothfuss, illustrations by Nate Taylor (four stars) His yawn was so languid he wished someone was here to see how seamlessly he managed seeming calm. Like all other … Continue reading →