Category: Reviews

The Antunite Chronicles, Book 1 By Terry Birdgenaw © May 16, 2022, Cyborg Insect Books 190 pages ASIN: B0B1KWFF24   This story was…unique. While it did remind me at times of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series, Antuna’s Story was written more simply, without the deeper sophistication of Tchaikovsky’s storytelling style. That’s not to say…

By Charlie Jane Anders Reprint Edition © April 11, 2017, Tor Books 320 pages ISBN-13: 978-0765379955 Wow. I am having a…difficult time classifying this book but will go with Post-Apocalyptic Science Fantasy crossed with ecofiction/climate fiction. All the Birds In the Sky is…different. Odd—in a good way. Groundbreaking. The writing is visionary, deep, and provocative….

By John Scalzi © 8/26/2014, Tor Books 337 pages ASIN: B00IHCBE1C My last Scalzi read, Starter Villain, was light, snarky, and filled with feel-good stuff, even though it had some dark overtones. This one, Lock In, was the opposite. Based in a world where a new, highly contagious virus has affected millions of people worldwide…

Book One of the Dreamfarer Series By John B. Rosenman August 17, 2021 240 pages B0932D1D3K In a postapocalyptic world where warfare has been shifted into space to preserve what’s left of Earth, the vast majority of the population sleeps in dream units—vast machines where they spend their adult lives existing within a dream of…

By Gareth Powell © 4/23/2019 by Tordotcom File Size 5324 KB ASIN: B07HF2Q1CV I have read and enjoyed other Gareth Powell books, all of which were science fiction. Ragged Alice is not sci-fi; instead, it’s a paranormal mystery, and it’s every bit as good as I expected from this author. The story takes place in…

By Sophie Edwards © September 2024, Lillabe Books 396 pages ASIN: B0CWYGPYBF Sally’s a bored young woman working a meaningless job at her sister’s business. She’s eager to break away, go out on her own, see the world. After all, her mother and her sister have always been overprotective. Sally wants more–until she gets what…

A gentle approach to cleaning and organizing By KC Davis, LPC © April 26, 2022, S&S/Simon Element B09JPHQZQZ 156 pages As someone who works part-time and writes in most other times, I struggle to have a clean house. I know I’m not alone. How to Keep House While Drowning was written by a mother who…

By John Scalzi © 9/19/2023, Tor Books 268 pages ASIN: B0B9KVXCQ6 This was a fun little romp. I wouldn’t call it a cozy anything, but author John Scalzi created a story about villains that actually has a feel-good energy. Yes, there’s murder. Yes, there’s criminal activity. But there’s also a huge helping of snark that…

By J. N. Chaney and Jason Anspach © June 11, 2024, Variant Publications B0D2382W95 632 pages I enjoyed VoidDrifters from the very first page, and was captivated by the main character, Will, an archeologist-turned-spacer. I totally bought the story’s explanation of how he stumbles into the ship and accidentally activates it. The actions he took were…

Salem Spirits Cozy Mysteries 2 By Dina Marie © November 13 2024, eLunaMedia LLC 236 pages ASIN: B0D3HDGKNM Clara’s abusive late husband, Joe, has left her the perfect house as part of her inheritance—a historical home in Salem, Massachusetts, complete with the ghost of William Kensington, who’s now her best friend. But when Clara goes…