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First Review of the Year at Strange Horizons
2026 is here, and I’ve got a review up at Strange Horizons magazine. Please, go check it out, and while you’re there, look at all the other wonderful stuff that Strange Horizons offers. It’s an excellent genre magazine worth anyone’s time. They feature original fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and reviews. I’ve reviewed for Strange Horizons before, and I hope to continue to do so in the future. It’s…
Review: Twelve Months
The Dresden Files is one of my favorite series of books. For twenty years, I’ve enjoyed the exploits of Chicago’s only advertising wizard. This is one of the series that’s on my “buy on release day” list. It’s a series that is entertaining, problematic, and fun. The cast of characters have grown on me, and reading a Dresden Files novel is a bit of comfort in a chaotic world. When Peace Talks and…
Review: The Last Vigilant by Mark Latham from Orbit Books #Fantasy #GrimDark #Magic
Review: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman #DCC #Donut #DungeonCrawlerCarl #MattDinniman
Review: Melinda West and the Gremlin Queen by K.C. Grifant #WeirdWest #Monsters
Review: Splinter Effect by Andrew Ludington from Minotaur Books #SplinterEffect #AndrewLudington #TimeTravel #Constantinople #ScienceFiction
Review: A Drop of Corruption
Review: A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett from Del Rey #fantasy #mystery #ADropofCorruption #ShadowoftheLeviathan
One of my favorite books of 2024 was the wonderful The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. It had everything I enjoy in a fantasy novel: beautiful world building, intriguing characters, and mysteries that build upon themselves. Well, Jackson is back with A Drop of Corruption, the second in the Shadow of the Leviathan series. I loved the first book; so, how will the second hold up? Does A Drop…
Review: In the Shadow of the Fall
Review: In the Shadow of the Fall by Tobi Ogundiran from Tor.com #IntheShadowoftheFall #Fantasy
Fantasy is a field that possesses endless possibilities. We read it to escape, but we also read it to escape to a world where good can overcome evil. Where the little one can defeat the big bad. And where we can be so much more than ourselves. Ashâke, the main character of In the Shadow of the Fall by Tobi Ogundiran, understands this. She sees others passing her by, making more of themselves and…
Review: The Quiet Damage
Review: The Quiet Damage by Jesselyn Cook from Crown Publishing #Politics #Family #Nonfiction #TheQuietDamage
Prior to Covid, a Facebook friend starting posting nonsense about 5G and cancer. It was a lot of non-scientific fear-mongering for people who weren’t science literate. Soon, this person started posting Qanon stuff, and I was exposed to the insanity that is Qanon, Pizzagate, and Adrenochrome. Frankly, I was incredulous and curious. How could reasonable people believe such ridiculous things? When I…
Review: The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
Review: The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark from Tor.com #fantasy #assassins #worldbuilding #TheDeadCatTailAssassins
When I was in college and didn’t have much money, I used to select fantasy novels based on their page count. I figured that I got more for my money with more pages. But more pages doesn’t mean better quality. The science fiction and fantasy (SFF) genre has generated some large books of late, but Tor.com has also begun bringing back the novella and the novellette. These shorter works may have…
My Review at Strange Horizons
My Review of "The Life Impossible" at Strange Horizons #reviews #TheLifeImpossible
Hey everyone, my review of The Life Impossible by Matt Haig is up at Strange Horizons. Check it out. And check out the book here at Left Bank Books in St. Louis, MO.
2024 Blog Updates
Well, it’s been a slow year on the blog for me. I haven’t been writing as much as normal, and it’s been tough for me. A combination of changing roles at work, normal growth of parental duties, and some family developments has preempted my writing here on the blog. It’s been frustrating for me because I love reviewing books, but this blog isn’t in the top five priorities of my life at the moment.…
Review: Ghost Station
Review: Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes from Tor Nightfire #Horror #ScienceFiction #Space #Station
My sister, a doctor, told me that people go into healthcare to heal themselves or heal someone they love. I have to think that’s even more true when it comes to mental healthcare. But as with any person, therapists can’t escape their pasts, especially if they choose to run from it. One way we run from our past is the secrets we keep from others and the secrets that we refuse to confront in…
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Review: The Silverblood Promise
Review: The Silverblood Promise by James Logan from Tor Books #Fantasy #Series #Debut #Reconciling
Death always comes too soon. We don’t think about it as a survival mechanism, but it’s out there waiting for all of us. Yet, we delay things because we believe tomorrow will come. Whether optimism or naivete, we put off doing things that are difficult, that are painful. We put off reconciling. Sometimes, we put it off too long and can never reconnect. Lukan Gardova in The Silverblood Promise by…
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Review: What Feasts at Night
Review: What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher from Tor Nightfire #horror #AlexEaston #mushrooms
Humans are, by nature, a social animal. We need contact with others to stay emotionally and mentally healthy. It’s also why readers and movie goers attach to characters. We want to find ourselves in characters, but we also want to find our friends and family in characters as well. In character driven fiction, different experiences are available to us. But, in all of these experiences, we can live…
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Review: The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
Review: The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older from Tordotcom #Jupiter #cozy #mystery #romance #tea #sciencefiction
Jupiter is my favorite planet. I find the storms and the atmosphere beautiful. The idea of living amongst those swirling gases and turbulent storms is exciting and daunting. It’s also beyond the scope of technology that we have and could possibly foresee. So when Malka Older set her series of cozy mysteries on Jupiter, I was intrigued and pleased. After all, that’s what science fiction is for,…
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Review: Hit 'Em Where It Hurts
Review: Hit 'Em Where It Hurts by Rachel Bitecofer from Crown Publishing #politics #democrats #progressives #winning
I love politics. I hate my political party. I’m a registered Democrat because I hate the GOP worse. The GOP’s moral cowardice towards Trump and their support of Eric Greitens pushed me from independent to registered Democrat. And that, in short, is how politics in the U.S. truly works. We don’t vote for our team; we vote against the other team. Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts by Rachel Bitecofer takes…
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