Book Review: River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey

**This book was reviewed for Macmillan-Tor/ Forge via Netgalley   River of Teeth hits you with the two-ton force of a raging bull hippo, dragging you down into the depths of well-wrought words. This is an alternate earth story of what life might have been like if the US went ahead with plans to import […]

Book Review: God’s Red Son by Louis Warren

*This book was reviewed for San Francisco Book Review   God’s Red Son is a piercing, poignant look at one of the more shameful events of our country’s infancy. Warren shines a light on the factors behind the infamous ‘Ghost Dance’ of the Sioux and other indigenous peoples of North America during the end of […]

Book Review: Keep in a Cold Dark Place by Michael F Stewart

  We shape our own worst nightmares, and so we hold the key to their banishment. Sometimes the things we fear the most need never be feared at all. Stewart’s Keep in a Cold, Dark Place is a witty commentary on fear, and how we often let it get the better of us. Ignore your […]

Book Review: I Wish My Teacher Knew…. by Kyle Schwartz

**This book was reviewed for Perseus, De Capo Press via Netgalley.   Schwartz’ poignant book is a testimony to the impact and power a teacher has. Rather than going through the mere drudgery of teaching, day in, day out, Schwartz went out of her way to really get to know her students. Teachers really play […]

Book Review: Bees Make Honey, Butterflies Make Jam

**This book was reviewed for Troubadour Publishing/Matador via Netgalley   Bees Make Honey and Butterflies Make Jam by John Offord is an amusing collection of tongue-in-cheek tales. Several of the stories turn fairy-tale tropes on their heads. One of these is the story of The Princess and the Frog. Offord’s version even makes a play […]

Book Review: Writing Fight Scenes by Rayne Hall

*This book was purchased by me for my own use, with no expectations of a review to be given.   Writing Fight Scenes is one of Rayne Hall’s many super-specialised writingcraft books. As the name suggests, this one covers the myriad aspects of constructing fight scenes. There are several chapters with topics ranging from types […]

Book Review: Destiny of the Queen by Jacqueline Patricks

*This book was reviewed via Lola’s Blog Tours   Destiny of the Queen, third in the Brajj series by Jacqueline Patricks, concludes the entrancing tale of Cass Baros, Jeamon, and Captain Lewis. Through time untold, and across distance unfathomable, Captain Lewis and Ta’mat have been thrown into the future of the multiverse by an unstable […]

Book Review: Nightmares of the Queen by Jacqueline Patricks

*This book was reviewed via Lola’s Blog Tours   **Warning: graphic depictions of rape     Second in The Brajj series, Nightmares of the Queen continues the captivating story of a world ripped asunder, a world that never should have existed in the first place. The storyline bounces between Captain Lewis on Earth, and, Cass […]

Book Review: Dreams of the Queen by Jacqueline Patricks

*This book was reviewed for Lola’s Blog Tours   ***Warning- graphic depictions of rape   Patricks’ Dreams of the Queen is an out of this world adventure quite unlike any other. First of The Brajj Trilogy, it has a very Dr Whovian and Stargate-esque nature. Cassiopeia Baros is a physicist at MIT working on a […]

Book Review: The X-Files and Philosophy, edited by Robert Arp

This book was reviewed for the San Francisco Book Review   Aah, but this show, one of the first big serial paranormal dramas, shaped a large chunk of my teenage years. I’ve always loved the unknown, the unexplained, the unusual. There’s a great deal of philosophy embedded in the X-Files, to be sure. The X-Files […]

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