Geoffrey M. Gluckman's Blog, page 2
March 8, 2022
Review of Shadow and Bone
Leigh Bardugo, the author, creates a well-drawn world with complex characters. The main characters, Alina Starkov and Mal Oretsev, are both orphans that grew up together at an estate-run orphanage. Their bond is strong, ...
February 17, 2022
Review of Infernal Devices
In this third book of Hungry City Chronicles by Philip Reeve, the story has advanced sixteen years from the end of Book Two, which left Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw stranded on Anchorage because Nimrod Pennyroyal had s...
February 14, 2022
Review of Chariots of the Gods?
Though this is a re-read for me, it has been many years and no review ever written.
January 20, 2022
Review of The Croquet Player
The great author, H.G. Wells, shares a peculiar story in this novella. The story is allegorical, whereby a croquet player, Georgie Frobisher, narrates his interactions with two unusual men while sipping vermouth on the v...
January 11, 2022
Review of Predator's Gold
In the second book of the Hungry City Chronicles (Mortal Engines Quartet #2) by Philip Reeve, the journey of Tom Natsworthy and Hester continues. They took over Anna Fang's airship, Jenny Haniver, after Anna was killed. ...
November 29, 2021
Review of The Barbary Pirates
The author, William Dietrich, has revolutionized his character, Ethan Gage, in this fourth tale of the series. The preceding books in the series became a bit formulaic, centering around the adventures of Gage, which incl...
October 9, 2021
Review of The Big Over Easy
The author, Jasper Fforde, has done it again--given readers a fun, playful, and sly tale. This time he introduces us to Detective Inspector Jack Spratt of the Nursery Crime Division (NCD) in Reading England.
September 13, 2021
Review of Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla
Mark Seifer, the author, presents a complete biography of the genius, Nikola Tesla. In truth, all of us would not enjoy many of our electronic luxuries today if it were not for Mr. Tesla. (Think of him every time you plu...
August 26, 2021
Review of Gardens of the Moon
This is the first book (of ten) in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson. War is the key focus going on throughout the book with Empress Laseen of the Malazan Empire endeavoring to conquer many lands an...
May 31, 2021
Review of Palace of Treason
The author, Jason Matthews, leaves no doubt as to who are the good guys, and who are the bad guys in Palace of Treason, the sequel to Red Sparrow.
