Speculative-Fiction

My Sunday at the 2012 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Part 2

My Sunday at the 2012 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Part 2

I attended the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Sunday, April 22. The first part of my report on the festival can be found at this link. And now onto Part 2. Anne Rice in Conversation with Scott Timberg After the mornings panels described in part 1 of my report, we stopped at the(…)

REVIEW: The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

REVIEW: The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

Dear Ms. Pearson, I first heard about your YA novel, The Adoration of Jenna Fox, last December during the Smugglivus event on The Book Smugglers blog. Author Nalini Singh did a guest post recapping her favorite books read in 2009. Her description of the book was brief but, combined with the hardcover's eyecatching cover and(…)

The Pioneers of Paranormal Romance

see more Lolcats and funny pictures I was telling a friend of mine about Christine Feehan the other day. I had picked up Dark Slayer to read after a long absence. I realized that if my friend picked up Feehan today that she would think Feehan was derivative. After all Feehan’s books are marked by(…)

My Paranormal Malaise

more animals I can count on one hand the number of paranormals that I’ve finished since last December. It’s a tiny number. At first, I thought it was because all that was available were vampires, werewolves and witches. I thought that I was tiring of paranormals. The more that I thought about it, though, I’ve(…)

REVIEW: Hidden by Eve Kenin

Dear Ms. Kenin: I was anxious to read Hidden, the second in your new futuristic romance series. While not as revelatory to me as Driven, Hidden still has all the elements that attracted me to your work in the first place. In Driven we saw the downfall of the ruler of North, leaving behind a(…)

REVIEW: Wired by Liz Maverick

Dear Ms. Maverick: I was excited about reading this book as it was the first in Dorchester’s new speculative romance line, Shomi. The promise was that Shomi books would feature cutting edge speculative fiction within the romance construct and Wired delivered on that promise. L. Roxanne Zaborovsky is on a mission to go to the(…)