Bones of the Past by Drew Hayes
Villain’s Code 1 may have been the first thing by Drew Hayes that I read. Now that it was finally time for a sequel, I was kind of excited to see that world again. Villain’s Code 2 is titled Bones of the Past and that’s pretty much an accurate description on a couple of levels. First, the main focus of book 1, Tori, who is now a new villain starting to find her place in the world, is not as much the focus; but she’s […]
How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge by K. Eason
I had thought to finish How The Multiverse Got Its Revenge for 2020 since I’d just reviewed the first book in the series, but I wasn’t quite fast enough. As sequels go, this was pretty average. The action picks up not too long after the concluding events of the first novel, with Rupert, Grytt, and Ivar on their sheep farm on Lanscott, and Rory, Jaed, Zhang, and Thorsdottir basically doing some free-lance piracy/salvage work in some remote corner of space. One of the fairies appears […]
The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hussain
Have you ever thought a book sounded interesting, got it, then started it, and decided maybe it wasn’t something that would interest you, then picked it up again almost a year later? That was me with The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday. This time, I read it all the way through it about one sitting; it’s a novella so in terms of length that’s not a big thing. I did get drawn in this second time, and the whole thing ended up being pretty […]
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
V.E. (Victoria) Schwab was introduced to me by my favorite bookstore, Mysterious Galaxy and it was love at first read. By pre-ordering the The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, I was able to get a personalized book plate and used my birthday present book embosser to further claim the book. Those actions decrease the re-sale value of a book but this is one I won’t be giving up! The simplest explanation of the plot is it is a Faustian deal between Adeline LaRue and a god-like, […]
A Trick of Light by Stan Lee, Kat Rosenfield
Bingo Review 21: No Money I don’t remember the exact circumstance, probably some kind of short term promotion, but Stan Lee’s A Trick of Light was a freebie download for the Kindle, and I kind of wanted to read it, so I downloaded it. The book then sat in my Kindle library for the entire time between its initial release and now. I have to say, finally having gotten to it, I’m glad I didn’t pay anything for this one. I’d have felt a little […]
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
If there is one thing that I can say about Charlie Jane Anders, is that she can commit to keeping things weird. Like, deeply, deeply, weird. She’s also not at all afraid to make ambitious leaps with her writing. Her first novel, All the Birds in the Sky was a broad, experimental urban science-fantasy mash-up, which ended up charming a lot of people. And while I could recognise the flashes of brilliance in the book, the whole thing didn’t come together in a way I […]
