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March 17, 2022

REVIEW: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

JayneBook Reviews / C ReviewsAction/Adventure / animals / fantasy/scifi / LGBTQIA characters / POC / science11 Comments

The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi’s first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy. When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old ... more >

January 27, 2022

REVIEW: Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

JennieB Reviews / Book Reviewsfantasy/scifi / Historical fiction / historical mystery / Scotland / young adult fiction4 Comments

I’ve read two previous books by Dana Schwartz, Choose Your Own Disaster and The White Man’s Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon. Both were non-fiction(ish?) – the first a memoir with a “Choose Your Own Adventure” conceit and the second a satirical look at famous authors from ... more >

November 18, 2021

REVIEW: Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsanthropology / colonization / fantasy/scifi / novella / science / sorcerer / space flight2 Comments

In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe. Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the ... more >

October 23, 2021

REVIEW: Invasion of the Unicorns by David Biedrzycki

JayneA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAlien Hero / children's book / fantasy/scifi / picture books / POC2 Comments

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He’s just a cute little unicorn who wants to take over the world. Special Agent Bubble07 is undercover on planet Earth. His mission: to decide whether his team of alien unicorns should invade Earth. Posing as a stuffed animal, he infiltrates the home of Earthling Daughter, where he puts up ... more >

April 9, 2021

REVIEW: The Qubit Zirconium by M Darusha Wehm

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsaliens / fantasy/scifi / gender fluidity / KeyForge / LGBTQIAP+ / mystery / non binary / Private-investigator / Science Fiction2 Comments

Alien detectives stumble across a mystery that could tear apart their patchwork planet, the Crucible, in this riotous science fantasy novel from the smash hit game, KeyForge Wibble & Pplimz, the Crucible’s most unusual private investigators, must set off from their office in Hub City to clear the name of ... more >

April 30, 2019

REVIEW: The Library of Ever by Zeno Alexander

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewschildren's fiction / Fantasy / fantasy adventure / fantasy/scifi / Library / middle grade / Science FictionComments Off on REVIEW: The Library of Ever by Zeno Alexander

The Library of Ever is an instant classic for middle grade readers and book lovers everywhere—an adventure across time and space, as a young girl becomes a warrior for the forces of knowledge. With her parents off traveling the globe, Lenora is bored, bored, bored—until she discovers a secret doorway ... more >

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