B Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews20th century / betrayal / China / gaming / near-future / POC / POC author / Scientist / SF10 Comments
Dear Liu Cixin, Your bestselling science fiction novel translated from Chinese to English by author Ken Liu, The Three Body Problem, caught my attention shortly after its publication in the US last summer. After reading the kindle sample and the cover blurb (the latter contains big spoilers), I was both ... more >
C- Reviewsdeath / Drugs / near-future / Penguin Random House / revenge / Science Fiction / Young-Adult1 Comments
Dear Ms. Roberts, My thriller kick continues, this time with one falling into the science fiction genre. I’ll be the first to admit that the science fiction is light in The Bodies We Wear, which is fine with me because I’m not in the mood for a rigorous read. Your ... more >
Book Reviewsdystopian / near-future30 Comments
It’s Grim Up North – Driven by Eve Silver One of the things I’ve been impressed by in my tour through Romancelandia is the sheer cracktastic insanity of some of the books I’ve read. I’m not sure that Driven quite beats Angel’s Blood for sheer weirdness, but I think “post-resource-depletion ... more >
B Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Book Reviewsamnesia / California / family relationships / near-future / Speculative-Fiction / thriller / Young-Adult19 Comments
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 ... more >
C Reviews / EbooksLoose-Id / mercenaries / near-future / post-apocalyptic5 Comments
Dear Ms. Dee: I have seen your writing described in many places in such high terms and with such delight (comparisons to Laura Kinsale have been made) that maybe I expected a little — or even a lot — too much from this book. I found it when I was ... more >
B+ Reviews / C ReviewsEve Dallas / law-enforcement / near-future / Nora-Roberts44 Comments
Dear Ms. Roberts: I discovered the In Death series almost 20 books in (at the publication of Portrait in Death), so I had the opportunity to read a big chunk of Eve and Roarke’s story all at once. I was immediately and completely caught up in the fictional futuristic world, ... more >