Back in March I reviewed The Fiery Heart, part of Meade’s Bloodlines series. The next book just came out, perfectly timed to me spending a week on the beach. Where better to read about vampires who can’t stand the sun than while sitting in it? This book picks up a few weeks after the last one left off. Sydney has been taken away to be reeducated after her love affair with vampire Adrian had been discovered. Adrian was losing himself in a haze of booze, […]
There will be weirdness
“When something catches your attention just keep your attention on it, stick with it ’til the end, and somewhere along the line there’ll be weirdness.” Yes. There will be weirdness. In Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird, a woman named Boy marries into a family of African Americans passing as white. However, Boy doesn’t know this until she gives birth to her baby girl, Bird, who is recognizably (recognizably?) black. But that’s not the weird part. Here’s the thing, there’s no weird part to Boy, Snow, […]
To Infinity and Back – Sci Fi fantasy short story collection by the Earthsea lady. Some of it entertaining, some weird, all thought provoking.
My husband picked this book up when he went out to get the Earthsea books (which he still has not read all the way through, I married a heathen). There are copious author’s notes that gave me an insight into LeGuin’s writing. She writes of the “psychomyth” as her main story type which greatly helped me in not trying to understand the stories in a rational sense but to let myself feel what the reading of them engendered. This book was engrossing and each piece […]
Doing the Monster Shamble…
Shambling Towards Hiroshima – I had been wanting to read this for a very long time. The title, the cover…the premise. It’s kind of hard to find in hardcopy, but I finally found it on Kindle ebook and I had a gift card so there you go. It’s a quick read: our story starts out as our hero – Syms Thorley – is writing his memoir in a Baltimore Hotel after winning the “Raydo” – a Lifetime Achievement award for Major Science Fiction/Fantasy […]
In which I remember what good urban fantasy feels like
While impatiently waiting for the newest Kate Daniels book to come off hold at the library, I remembered that Ilona Andrews doesn’t have just one urban fantasy series, and that The Edge series in particular was recommended to me. So, I dove in. Goodreads summary: “Rose Drayton lives on the Edge, between the world of the Broken (where people drive cars, shop at Wal-Mart, and magic is a fairy tale) and the Weird (where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic […]
The Daylight War
First and foremost, I adore this series. Peter V. Brett created a richly beautiful world with a myriad of interesting and fascinating characters. The Daylight War is the third book (of five planned) in the Demon Cycle. I found the pacing a little slower than the previous books as a whole. The Daylight War delved deep into the personal relationships that formed during the previous two books. I think that Arlen grew the most in this book. He seems much more comfortable and complete as […]