Lauren Willig, and Karen White. The story is about—you’ve guessed it—three authors who are working on a book together when a murder happens at the castle they’re visiting. There’s a blurb on the dust jacket calling this aMurder, She Wrotekind of story with a flair of literary ...
"The Shadow of the Wind", already a huge best-seller in Europe and America, reads like a classic Gothic tale of mystery. Set in post-war Barcelona in the 1940s and '50s, it is narrated first-person by a boy whose story starts with a secretive 1945 visit with his father to the "Ce...
We don’t discover this fact until the closing chapters. The first two-thirds of the novel seem to be pure padding. Sure, it could be edited down but a lot of interesting facts would be lost. Many seemingly insignificant interactions throughout are necessary to wind-up this western-mystery...
twisting caverns of the prison planet Colel-Cab with only fellow prisoner Chela for company. Chela says that they’re telepaths and mass-murderers; that they belong here, too dangerous to ever be free. Bee has no reason to doubt her—until she hears the voice of another telepath, one who...
answer about hype. It’s much easier to tell you how something was received if you, well, were alive to receive it. I don’t have that luxury, but what I do have is the perspective of history andthe sole negative reviewfor what many people consider to be the greatest movie ever made...
I still have Allan’s The Silver Wind and A Thread of Truth to read – I bought three of her collections at the last Fantasycon – and I’m looking forward to tackling them. The Last Castle / Nightwings, Jack Vance / Robert Silverberg (1966 / 1968). This is #15 in the Tor ...
did it ever live up to the hype. This is the second of three books on racism and police brutality I’ve read this year (the last one will be in my May post), which is a hard subject both to engage with in life and to read about in fiction. But I thought this book did an exc...
the final ballot. Thus, in several important categories (regardless of how many innocent final nominees were hurt by the tactic), no Hugo award was presented in more categories than ever in the history of the awards. What a shame. Were the illustrious fan awards, the Hugos, broken beyond ...
Why you should check it out: New York Times bestselling author James Rollins said, “The best word I can use to describe Battles’s writing is addictive,” and he’s spot on. I first fame across Battles work a couple of years ago and have been following him ever since. Hindsight by...