Book Review: Keri Arthur’s City of Light
The shifter-human war ended but left holes torn in the veil between worlds, allowing entry to the Others. Now those Others threaten the world’s children…and the rest.
Genre: dystopian
Book Review: Mercedes Lackey’s Dragon’s Teeth
A collection of thirty-one short stories in fantasy, science fiction, and both that range throughout worlds, space, and history.
Book Review: Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Among the Hidden
In the future families are limited to only two children, so Luke has lived his 12 years in fear, until another convinces him that the government is wrong.
Book Review: Mercedes Lackey’s Hunter
Calamities befell our world, and we need Hunters with their Hounds to protect us whether we live in protected enclaves like Apex City or independent villages out in the Territories. But it’s a lie.
Book Review: Erin Bow’s The Scorpion Rules
Climate shift has battered the world and war requires hostages: the Children of Peace fated to die if their countries declare war. It’s Elián’s arrival that shatters Greta’s shell, that drags in the truth.
Book Review: S.M. Stirling’ s The Sunrise Lands
A generation has passed since The Change and Oregon has finally achieved a degree of peace. But a new threat has risen, The Prophet presides over the CUT.
Book Review: Seanan McGuire’s “Midway Relics and Dying Breeds”
I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: NetGalley Midway Relics and Dying Breedsby Seanan McGuire dystopian, science fiction in eBook edition that was published by Tor Books on September 24, 2014 and has 32 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Rosemary and Rue, A Local Habitation, An Artificial Night, Late Eclipses, One Salt Sea, Discount Armageddon, Home Improvement: Undead Edition, “Never Shines the Sun”, Chimes at Midnight, “In Sea-Salt Tears”, Indexing, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination, Half-Off Ragnarok, Games Creatures Play, The Winter Long, Sparrow Hill Road, The InCryptid Prequels, Pocket Apocalypse, Black as Blood, Blocked, White as a Raven’s Wing, The Ghosts of Bourbon Street, IM, “Good Girls Go to Heaven”, A Red Rose Chain, “Full of Briars”, Reflections, Once Broken Faith, “Dreams and Slumbers”, Shadowed Souls, Chaos Choreography, Magic For Nothing, Indigo, Every Heart a Doorway, Down Among the Sticks and Bones, The Brightest Fell, “Of Things Unknown”, Beneath the Sugar Sky, Night and Silence, “Suffer a Sea-change”, The Girl in the Green Silk […]
Book Review: Sheri S. Tepper’s A Plague of Angels
A terrible prophecy sets off a chain of events bringing together a beautiful woman, a young adventurer, and a witch in the heroic and romantic tale of an age-old battle.
Book Review: Melissa Marr & Kelley Armstrong’s Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions
An anthology of 16 short stories with a theme of journey whether it was a trip, a diversion, or a path.
Book Review: Veronica Roth’s Insurgent
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library Insurgentby Veronica Roth dystopian, science fiction in Hardcover edition that was published by Harlequin, HC Children’s Books on May 1, 2012 and has 525 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include DivergentSecond in the Divergent dystopian Young Adult series and revolving around Tris and her friends. In 2012, Insurgent won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Young Adult Fantasy and Best Goodreads Author; in 2011, it won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Young Adult Protagonist. My Take This story is a weird combination of good storytelling and stupidity. I don’t know if I’ve been too long a “mature” adult and so far removed from my teens that I can no longer relate or if Tris’ actions are simply part of that annoying trope of the gormless but stubborn “child” who leaps into danger without telling anyone anything — because, sob, no one will believe her or, sob, she’s suicidal or, sob… I got dizzy with all the […]