djinni/genie
I can make this review brief: If you’re already reading Emma Holly's Tales of the Djinn series, you may (may!) like this latest instalment, The Lady Detective. If you’re not, for heaven’s sake don’t start here - and I include this review in that statement. I cannot review this book without ...
The City of Brass, book one in S. A. Chakraborty's Daevabad Trilogy, has received quite a bit of buzz over the past few months. It's been compared to such books as The Golem and the Jinni and The Grace of Kings, and since I'm always on the lookout for new fantasy novels, I jumped at the chance to re ...
After the first frenzied read of a fan, I knew I considered Oracle’s Moon to be a DIK. But as a review should be from a less biased perspective, I knew I had to read it a second time with a whole new mindset. Searching for flaws that a fan would overlook, instead I found even more strengths that m ...
Sometimes I read a book, and it's so incredibly good or so incredibly bad that the review practically writes itself. Not so here. This novella definitely has its good parts, but there just isn't enough there. It really could have been enjoyable, but in its current form, it reads more like an outline ...
B-
I picked Cape Storm to review, because I’d encountered Caine’s work in an anthology not long ago. I didn’t realize that I was getting the eighth book in the Weather Warden series, which would have been fine if it featured different couples, but this is a series that follows a central character ...
If Wishing Made it So is a light and funny second chance at love story. It's a textbook example of a pleasant summer read - nothing out of the ordinary, but good for several hours of fun.
Hildy Caldwell was the smartest girl in high school and was voted the one most likely to succeed. However, ci ...
NOTE: This book is out of print.
Isn’t it amazing what tiny details one remembers from one’s school days? Whereas whole years of chemistry and physics seem to have left my brain remarkably untouched, I couldn’t help thinking of a short quote from Oscar Wilde while I was reading Michaela Aug ...
B-
NOTE: This review refers to the text edition; however, it is currently only available in audio so we have linked to that instead.
Call me food-obsessed, but reading irrevocably brings out the gourmand in me. Not only do I tend to nibble away on something chocolate-related when I read, but some bo ...
Forced Mate made me laugh, but more in that “you’ve got to be kidding” kind of way rather than a "this book is funny" way. First there are those wonderful new terms that I'm sure will really spice up my conversational technique: “Rut-rageous”, “Unsense”, and “Slack-damn!”. And then ...
C+
Kathleen Nance's Spellbound features a great hero, a great setting, and some nifty mythology. But the heroine and plot are both overly complicated, and the balance between light and dark story elements is out of whack, resulting in a somewhat disappointing reading experience. As Minstrel of Za ...