Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror
- Book Review: IncarceronWith only indistinct memories to go by, seventeen year old inmate Finn feels he is different from the multitude of other Incarceron prisoners in that he came from Outside. Some argue there is no Outside world, nothing beyond Incarceron’s ever-changing interior with the cycles of...
- Book Review: QuatrainSet in four different worlds, this collection of novellas bridge between fantasy, romance and sci-fi while exploring how diverse societies practice segregation in one form or another. “Flight” is a sweet tale about Salome, a disillusioned Samarian woman who will stop at nothing to save her niece from making the same mistake with...
- Book Review: Rosemary and RueBeing half-human and half-fae means San Francisco based private investigator October Toby Daye is a changeling, fitting in neither world. Her magic abilities are weak and most fae look down on changelings yet despite this, the King trusts Toby. After her last assignment resulted in fourteen years spent...
- Book Review: The Silver MageKerr wraps up her epic fifteen book series begun in 1986 with the Northlands once again facing the threat of Horsekin invasion. With the disappearance of Haen Marn, an island held by the dwarves, inhabitants of Deverry team up with elven Wise Ones in an attempt to save the Northlands and all who...
- Book Review: CovetThe ongoing battle between Heaven and Hell is about to be resolved once and for all time in a fight waged by seven ordinary people. The outcome will decide the fate of their souls and that of earth. Naturally, the champions of Hell do not intend to play by the rules...
- Book Review: Elegy BeachAriel fans waited twenty-six years for this sequel to a Changed world when technologies suddenly failed and magic took over, hardly an original theme now, but groundbreaking in 1983. In the decades since the Change, Pete Garey the teenaged hero of Ariel has become a father, settled in Del Mar. His son Fred is...
- Book Review: Magic in the ShadowsMonk’s third book picks up Allison Beckstrom’s misadventures shortly after Magic in the Blood that ended with her father’s death…or did it. Following Daniel Beckstrom’s funeral Allie begins hearing his voice in her head, demanding she “find the disks, find my killer” and worse, he continues...
- Book Review: Fade OutThe human and vampire residents of Morganville, Texas are busy coming to terms with a more equal relationship then was possible under Bishop’s rule. Bishop, the former ruling vampire was evil personified and thought of humans as little more then playthings to be subjugated with...
- Book Review: ArchenemyThe third and final book of The Looking Glass Wars finds Queen Alyss on the throne after an intense confrontation with Redd, the former queen who relied on dark imagination to maintain control of the kingdom. As Alyss begins her reign, reestablishing Wonderland to its former glory, King Arch from a neighboring...
- Book Review: BoilerplateAfter the death of his brother-in-law Hugh in the 1871 Korean War, Professor Archibald Campion resolved to create a mechanical substitute for human solders so the senseless killing of war wouldn’t tear families apart. With the invention of a revolutionary new fuel cell, much experimentation and...
- Book Review: Chasing the DragonBook four of the Quantum Gravity series picks up cyborg Lila Black’s topsy-turvy world shortly after her return home following Going Under. Although she has only been gone a few months inexplicitly, fifty years have passed her by on Otopian. An agent with the Otopian Secret Service...
- Book Review: Dracula the Un-DeadNot to be confused with Freda Warrington’s 1999 release of the same title, this collaborative sequel by Bram Stoker’s great-grandnephew Dacre and screenwriter Holt takes considerable artistic license with the original story. Changing the timeline allows dubious connections with...
