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 »
In The Brothers, Riley, Doc, and Auntie Bell hit the road to find Clay, but Riley ends up getting stung by a scorpion on the way. To help take her mind off the pain, Auntie Bell tells the backstory of Riley’s mother and how she met Arn. Unlike the other… Read more »
The Gatherer is a short story about a fire sister “gatherer” named Alev who kidnaps Kaiya from her village and takes her back to become a fire sister. Using a special venom, Alev is able to control Kaiya and force her to do what Alev wants. Meanwhile, Kaiya’s father searches… Read more »
In the Moon Dwellers, a society lives underground centuries after a meteor struck the Earth. The two main characters are Adelle, a young girl imprisoned because her parents were working against the tyranical government, and Tristan, prince and son of the dictator president Nalin, and someone who has nothing in… Read more »
In Dark Space, humanity has been driven from its worlds by an enemy called the Slythians. They run to Dark Space, a place accessible only by a special gate, and previously reserved for criminals. Ethan is a smuggler who owes a debt to a crime boss. In order to repay… Read more »
Crashing Heaven is kind of a future sci fi dystopia in which humanity lives solely in a space station after Earth is decimated. The station is ruled over by the Pantheon, AIs who exist in the virtual reality overlay called the Weave. Also out there are other AIs called the Totality. Jack… Read more »
Interview with R.E. Carter, author of The Blood Guard series Can you talk a little about what the book is about? Sure. The Glass Gauntlet continues the story of thirteen-year-old Ronan Truelove, who recently discovered that his mother is a sword-wielding, death-defying, not-to-be-messed-with member of an ancient league called the… Read more »
Interview with Rival Gates Can you talk a little about what the book is about? This is the 3rd book in the Sapphire Chronicles series, the maniacal Lord Mandrean was nearly killed in book 2 by Linvin Grithinshield and he wants his revenge. Destroying Linvin will not only bolster his… Read more »
I got a great deal on the audiobook version of this novel and decided to give it a shot. I found it to be very entertaining. It has the classic Douglas Adams humor, quirky and wacky characters, implausible situations, and some very neurotic Norse gods. It was a ton of… Read more »
