Having never read any of Neil Gaiman’s work before, I jumped on the opportunity to grab The Ocean at the End of the Lane for a decent price at B&N last week. As I said in my review of Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea, it takes serious skill to be able to write a full-fledged story and…
Review – Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear
I’ve been meaning to read Elizabeth Bear for some time now, and after taking up Worlds Without End‘s Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge, Range of Ghosts came out on top of that list. I was almost put off immediately after reading the first few pages – the premise is great, but the prose seemed uncomfortably…
A Bitter Draft 2.0 is Live!
After much deliberation I opted to grab my own domain and with the help of Justin of Staffer’s Book Review it is now presentable. The transition from Blogger to WordPress was mostly smooth outside of some formatting problems with the previous posts. Bear with me as I progressively fix them over the next several days and…
Review – Ex-Heroes by Peter Clines
While I was rummaging through Goodreads for more books to read, I stumbled across a review of Ex-Heroes written by Mihir over at Fantasy Book Critic that convinced me to look into a book I would have otherwise set aside. I don’t really enjoy reading about superheroes. While it may be fun to read about Superman or Batman kicking ass and…
Winner of The Darwin Elevator Giveaway!
The giveaway has ended and the winner of a paperback copy of The Darwin Elevator by Jason M. Hough is Brian Goff, courtesy of Del Rey and A Bitter Draft! You’re in for a great read. Check your email – If you don’t respond fairly soon the winner will have to be re-picked! If you didn’t win…