Book Review: Mercedes Lackey Tempest: All-New Tales of Valdemar
An anthology of twenty-two short stories in a mixed bag of quality in this tenth in the Tales of Valdemar subseries as part of the Valdemar series.
Genre: short stories
Book Review: Dorothy L. Sayers’ Striding Folly
An anthology of the last three stories in the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery series that sees Lord and Lady Peter with their family.
Book Review: Sir Terry Pratchett’s A Blink of the Screen
A slew of short and even shorter stories in this fanciful anthology, some touch on Discworld, some make fun of it, and some are…just for the fun of it.
Book Review: Robert Dourandish’s 22 Naked Bodies Inside
An anthology of 22 short stories revolving around emerging writers laying bare their inner conflicts to their readers.
Book Review: Seanan McGuire’s “Full of Briars”
An insightful tale as Quentin Solly realizes how much he’s grown in Sir Toby Daye’s service as he argues with his parents about returning home.
Book Review: Dennis Wheatley’s The Black Magic Series Starter
The first three novels in Dennis Wheatley’s Black Magic horror series featuring the Duke de Richleau and friends as they battle Satanists from 1935 to 1945.
Book Review: J.D. Robb’s Down the Rabbit Hole
You’re late for a very important date into a wonderland of five mesmerizing tales. Don’t be afraid to follow into a place that’s neither here nor there…
Book Review: Walter Mosley’s Futureland
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 Futurelandby Walter Mosley horror, science fiction, short stories that was published by Grand Central Publishing on June 4, 2013 and has 400 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Nine short stories of horrifying science fiction, of a future that simply continues the problems of today with more advanced science. Each story provides a different look at this future society, and it isn’t nice. It isn’t a world in which I want to live, where your birth or lack of employment condemns you to a life of nothing. Where the system is sucking out man’s ingenuity and spirit for the sake of production and profit. I received an advance copy from NetGalley and Grand Central Publishing for the purpose of an honest review. The stories tie loosely together with a few common characters that crop up here and there. There’s Akwande and his idealism and Tristan the First, Dominar of the Blue Zone, and his shared lack of compassion or humanity with Kismet. Folio Johnson is a far-seeing man — no […]
Book Review: Anne McCaffrey’s The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall
Five short stories, the early records, of the events that shaped the future of Pern and its stranded colonists in The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall.
Book Review: Andre Norton’s Tales From High Hallack, Volume 3
Twenty-one short stories of fantasy, and for the most part, I did not enjoy them. There are a few in here I did like, primarily because I could understand what the story was about.