
Book Review: Rivers of London Books 8 & 9
It’s time to give my thoughts on the remaining 2 novels in the Rivers of London series.
Continue reading “Book Review: Rivers of London Books 8 & 9”It’s time to give my thoughts on the remaining 2 novels in the Rivers of London series.
Continue reading “Book Review: Rivers of London Books 8 & 9”I’ve finally gotten caught up on the Murderbot Diaries series of novellas (and one novel), by Martha Wells – after taking far too long to read them. Frankly, I honestly think I should have read the books much sooner.
Continue reading “Murderbot Diaries To Date (2022): Book Review”We return to Young Jedi Knights, where the Shadow Academy Arc is coming to a head.
Continue reading “Legends of the Force Episode 43: Young Jedi Knights – Jedi Sunrise”I’ve kinda fallen behind on the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch (at least as far as the video reviews are concerned), so it’s time to get caught up.
Continue reading “Book Review: Rivers of London Books 1-7”With The Jasmine Throne, by Tasha Suri, I’m finally getting back to being caught up with the Sword & Laser Book Club picks – more or less (November’s pick is Six Wakes, which I read a while back, so I’m using this month to catch up on some other books). While I liked the novel, my thoughts on The Jasmine Throne are complicated in ways that somewhat intersect with my views on She Who Became The Sun, and in ways that don’t.
Continue reading “The Jasmine Throne: Book Review”We now come to the worst novels in the Star Wars Legends timeline we’ve covered so far.
Continue reading “Legends of the Force: Episode 42 – The Black Fleet Crisis”This time I’m following up on the direct sequel to Demon City Shinjuku, and the second half of the relevant omnibus.
Continue reading “Demon Palace Babylon: Book Review”I’ve finally read the novel version of Demon City Shinjuku, after having previously reviewed the anime, and have some thoughts comparing the book to the movie.
Continue reading “Book Review: Demon City Shinjuku”I’m taking a look at my first book from Bitmap Books, as I look at their rundown of various CRPGs.
Continue reading “Book (Video) Review: The CRPG Book”Let’s start off 2022 with a book review, this time of my first book by Alastair Reynolds that I’ve read, Aurora Rising (also published as The Prefect)
Continue reading “Aurora Rising: Book (Video) Review”It is time for another review of a book that I’ve read for the Sword & Laser Book Club Podcast – in this case, Aurora Rising, by Alastair Reynolds (previously released as The Prefect) – currently my first step into his Chasm City/Revelation Space setting.
Continue reading “Aurora Rising: Book Review”Today I’m reviewing the first installment in The Culture Series that I’ve read – not the first one in the series (that’s next week), but my introduction to the series.
Continue reading “Matter: Book Video Review”This week I’m starting off my Halloween horror reviews with a review of a nonfiction book about horror fiction.
Continue reading “Paperbacks From Hell: Book Review”It’s time for a review of another Sword & Laser Book Club pick.
Continue reading “Book Review: Piranesi”This time I have a book review of a novel about making anime.
Continue reading “Anime Supremacy: Book Review”I’ve been following the Sword & Laser podcast for a while, but I never really had gotten around to reading along with any of their book picks until this year, with The Fold.
Continue reading “The Fold: Book Review”There are some YA novels that I have read that feel like I’m reading an anime. This is, in part, because some of the light novels that have been adapted to anime were aimed for YA audiences. The Epic Crush of Genie Lo is an YA novel that definitely fits that concept, though one with some very different and unique narrative hooks because of the point of view character and setting that make it really worth your while (and makes me wish it would get turned into an animated series).
Continue reading “The Epic Crush of Genie Lo: Book Review”I like cookbooks. They are the fusion of my love for cooking and food, and my background in technical writing. I also love fantasy fiction & roleplaying games, with The Elder Scrolls series in particular. So, when I first played Skyrim and found there was cooking in the game, one of my first thoughts was “Man, an Elder Scrolls cookbook would be neat!” So, when one finally came out, I knew that I needed to check it out. Much as with the second Von Bek novel, I should have been looking at the Monkey’s Paw.
Continue reading “The Elder Scrolls: The Official Cookbook: Book Review”In my review of The Warhound and the World’s Pain, I lamented that the book felt too short, and that the sexual assault sequence served no purpose. I should have noticed the finger curl on the monkey’s paw.
Continue reading “City in Autumn Stars: Novel Review”Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champion series is interesting to discuss. Some stories have direct analogies to and inversions of Robert E. Howard’s work, like Elric. Others, like Hawkmoon, go in radically different directions. The first Von Bek novel probably falls more into the former camp – feeling like something of an inversion of Solomon Kaine, in multiple respects.
Continue reading “The Warhound and the World’s Pain: Book Review”Virgin Books’ Doctor Who: New Adventures series was, back in the day, meant to provide fans of Doctor Who the thing they wanted after the show was put on indefinite hiatus after the serial Survival. Time’s Crucible is the 6th book in the series, part of a pair of thematically linked stories under the heading of “Cat’s Cradle”.
Continue reading “Doctor Who: Cat’s Cradle – Time’s Crucible Book Review”Dragons of Winter Night, as a novel, runs into the problem of adapting what was we think of it into just a trilogy of books – a bunch of material has to be skipped over. We start off after the retrieval of the Hammer of Karass and the re-unification of Dwarven society (which would later be covered in Dragons of the Dwarven Depths), with that kind of setting the tone somewhat for how the show comes out.
Continue reading “Dragons of Winter Night: Book Review”Almost a year after the film adaptation finished, and almost 35 years after the book came out, I have read IT. Time to give my thoughts.
Continue reading “IT: Book Review”It has all come down to this, as we have the final book in the Legend of the Galactic Heroes series.
Continue reading “Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Book 10 Review”