Having been caught up with work and schoolwork, I haven’t had as much time to write in-depth reviews, so here are mini-revies of two books that I’ve read recently – Dream London and The Violent Century. Tony Ballantyne’s Dream London jumped out in Solaris’s catalog instantly with its cover. The blurb was also interesting – a London…
‘Attack someone from behind? There’s no honor in fighting like that!’ ‘There’s no honor at all in killing someone, lad. No matter how you strike. There’s no glory to be had in taking a life.’ General Dun-Cadal Daermon was one of the most famous generals of the Empire. In the years since the Empire’s fall,…
Picture this: an incredibly powerful race of aliens known as the Gdaba halted the human exploration in space and all but wiped humanity out. The remainder of the human fleet splits up – one half cloaks and stops moving, the other continues flying to draw the Gdaba away. The half of the fleet that cloaked…
See part I of Teresa Frohock’s Religion in Fantasy here. Fantasy has tackled religion from all directions: the real God versus False Gods; Rival Gods; Phantom Gods; No Gods. Twilights of the Gods. God versus Devil. Pagan Gods versus Christianity. Eastern versus Western. God is Dead/Risen/Never was. Magic comes from God. Magic comes from the…
Vicious is Victoria Schwab’s first adult novel. Over the past month or so I’ve had times where I went several days between books. I’ve even temporarily shelved a few of my most anticipated books this year – Scott Lynch’s Republic of Thieves and Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice to name two. The former, though reviews have been somewhat…
