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Book Review: Connie Willis’ Doomsday Book

Book Review: Connie Willis’ Doomsday Book

For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received.

Posted November 19, 2013 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Kelley Armstrong’s Four Summoner’s Tales

Book Review: Kelley Armstrong’s Four Summoner’s Tales

I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Four Summoner’s TalesIt is part of the Joe Ledger #6.5 series and is a in Paperback edition on September 17, 2013 and has 321 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Four short stories of horror in this anthology revolving around the basic plot of someone offering to raise the dead…for a price. Series: “Alive Day” (Joe Ledger, 6.5) My Take All four were horrorific in varying degrees. And all four were well written as complete stories with backgrounds and developed characters. The Stories Kelley Armstrong‘s “Suffer the Children” is a nasty bit of complex betrayal in a small village outside Ontario in the nineteenth century, and I cried so at the end. Christopher Golden‘s “Pipers” was the most depressing as events fall apart around the townsfolk. People who mostly hoped to bring back their loved ones, but were pushed and blackmailed into continuing with a deadly plan. David Liss‘s “A Bad Season for Necromancy” was my least favorite as the “hero” was such a weak man who preyed on others for his own […]

Posted November 5, 2013 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments