A Review Category / A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsPOC / POC author / SFF / Sherlock Holmes / short story/novellette8 Comments
Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by exiled human scholars and powerful families, and held together by living mindships who carry people and freight between the stars. In this fluid society, human and mindship avatars mingle in corridors and in function rooms, ... more >
A Review Category / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended Reads / Top Ten Lists5 Comments
I usually put my most memorable reads (from those I reviewed at DA) on my Best of Lists and this year is no exception. As you can see the list is not very long, but those were truly the books that stuck with me and hopefully will continue to be ... more >
A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsdragons / fallen angels / Fantasy / POC / POC author15 Comments
As the city rebuilds from the onslaught of sorcery that nearly destroyed it, the great Houses of Paris, ruled by Fallen angels, still contest one another for control over the capital. House Silverspires was once the most powerful, but just as it sought to rise again, an ancient evil brought ... more >
Book Reviews / Recommended Reads / Top Ten ListsReading lists19 Comments
I read a lot of pre-2015 books this year, and a lot of autobuy authors, so I wasn’t sure I had enough to do a Best of 2015 list. But I read some really good books and I wanted to highlight them, so in no particular order, here they are. ... more >
A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsangels / dragons / Fantasy / immortal / Paris / POC / Recommended Read / Vietnam6 Comments
Janine: Aliette de Bodard’s new fantasy novel, The House of Shattered Wings, takes place in an alternate late twentieth century Paris, a city peopled not just by humans but also by fallen angels cast out of Heaven by the Christian God for reasons they themselves do not recall. The Fallen ... more >
Book Reviews / Reading ListsHarlequin Intrigue / Harlequin-Presents / Historical Fantasy / multicultural / non-fiction / Reading lists / Recommended Reads / romantic-suspense / self-help / Urban-Fantasy13 Comments
Playing by the Greek’s Rules by Sarah Morgan Yay, Sarah Morgan has a new Presents out! I picked this up when it appeared at Kobo at the beginning of the month and read it in one sitting. This book is billed as a prequel to Morgan’s new single-title Puffin Island series, ... more >