In the Moon Coin, Lily discovers that all the childhood tales that her Uncle Ebb told her might just be true. When Uncle Ebb disappears, Lily finds a coin that transports her to a far off realm that is in the midst of a war for their survival. This was… Read more »
A fresh, modern take on Pinocchio, this story follows Pia as she must complete work for an unseen employer while being imprisoned and manipulated by wires attached to her body. I didn’t read the synopsis before starting this book so I had no idea what it was to be about…. Read more »
I’ve never read this series before, but got the audiobook for the third novel about a boy named Flinx and his killer flying mini-dragon Pip. He is first kidnapped by a rather evil businessman who wants to exploit Flinx’s mental powers. He then sets off on a quest to learn… Read more »
In Containment, Arik is one of a new generation of settlers on a base on the planet Venus. With dwindling oxygen supplies, Arik is tasked with coming up with ways to increase the oxygen supply. During his quest to develop plants that can grow in the harsh conditions, he discovers… Read more »
In Dark Space: Revenge, the Sythians have come to dark space to conquer humanity. Meanwhile, Admiral Heston sends a mission to get help from the Avalonians. The book got to a very, very slow start. Ethan and Illara’s wedding and honeymoon were pretty boring, and they didn’t really do anything… Read more »
In this second novel, Nathaniel and Orah travel across the sea in search of the descendents of the Keep, in hope that they will be able to assist their people in recovering from the times of darkness. This was a really great book, perhaps excelling even the first. There is… Read more »
This final book of the Moth saga sees the end to the war between light and day. Overall, it was a decent conclusion to the Moth story line. It had a bit more depth, action, and excitement than the last book. There were a few surprises, some better developed cultures,… Read more »
This is a very interesting book about a post-apocalyptic Earth where Earth-dwellers are dependent on a space station for power, energy, and technology, while the station (the Coronians) are dependent on Earth for raw materials. Having not read the first book, I found it took me a little while to… Read more »
This book is a dark, depressing tale with the psychotic Radian order committing genocide on the Elorians and lots and lots of the same rhetoric about worms and nightcrawlers, etc. Things go from worse to worst to completely utterly worst. There were some really SLOW parts of the book that… Read more »
In The Daughter of Moth, Madori (daughter of Torin and Koyee) goes to an academy to learn healing magic. While there, she must deal with discrimination and hate from the “pure blooded” Timandarians. Meanwhile, a new movement who call themselves Radians slowly take over the light side of Moth and… Read more »
Yet another great book in the Ranger’s Apprentice series. Morgarath works to take over the kingdom, imprisoning the King and also Prince Duncan, as well as disbanding the Ranger Corps. Crowley and Halt work to gather all the rangers and work to save the kingdom. The beauty of this book… Read more »
Schism is a fitting conclusion to the Sparks Saga. Khea confronts the challenges of ruling the islands while preparing for a war that eventually comes to her shores. Ultimately I thought this was a great novel. The darkness and funk around Lark finally lift and his relationship with Khea deepens…. Read more »
For a good 2/3 of the book, this story took the same tact as its predecessor and just piling on the bleakness. Nothing ever goes right for anyone, and things just keep getting more and more depressing. Everything you hope would happen as a reader doesn’t. But then, finally, things… Read more »
Interview With Matthew Kadish Who is your favorite character? That’s like asking me which child of mine is my favorite. I obviously have one, but I would never want to hurt the others’ feelings by acknowledging it. Ain’t that right, Heckubus? Is there a message you want readers to get… Read more »
In this final book in the Brilliant Darkness series, it opens with Fenn and Peree about to get married, and then everything goes wrong. The children of Koolkuna are stolen away by the Fire Sisters, a group of females who live in a mountain fortress. Fenn, Peree, Kai, and others… Read more »
In the Gift, government programmer Sam helps decode an alien program sent by an approaching alien spacecraft. This race send the ship in the hopes it would help the human race survive an attack by an approaching enemy. Contained in the ship are gifts which are intelligences that pair with… Read more »
Interview With Siobhan Davis 1. Did you always know that you wanted to write a Sci-Fi book? No! When I first started writing fiction, in my early thirties, I wrote lots of chicklit/romance, and I secretly harbored an ambition to write crime/thrillers. Mostly because those were the genre’s I was… Read more »
In this second Earthman Jack novel, Jack and friends return to the Imperial Empire homeworld and Anna must resume her princess duties. However, the Deathlords aren’t finished with them yet. I really enjoyed this second novel and it went into such detail about the empire and its workings, as well… Read more »
In this third and final book, the Mardenites finally arrive to wreck havok on Kiel while the developers will stop at nothing to win the war, regardless of the costs. Finally in this third book we learn about Marden, the Mardenites, the history of the war, the makeup of the… Read more »
In this second book, the crew of the Defiant attempt to travel across Sythian space to get to Obsidian Station. There, they hope to get help and resources to be able to get back and take the Valiant. Meanwhile, Brondi decides to go after the other human fleet, and the… Read more »
