Category Archives: Science Fiction/ Fantasy
“Plucker” – Not Your Average Toy Story
Most children believe that when they sleep or when they leave their bedroom, their toys come to life. In Plucker by (and illustrated) Brom, this belief is true but not in a “Toy Story” sense. This work can be neither described as a novel or graphic novel; it is more like an adult picture book. […]
Steamy Steampunk Romance
If you are in need of a steamy romance, steamy as in steampunk, “Wicked as They Come” by Delilah S. Dawson is the romance book for you. Dawson creates another world, a world that people can pass into in their sleep. Ever wonder where coma patients go? They go to Sang – a world that […]
Laurell K. Hamilton: When the Sex Becomes Too Much
I have a love/hate relationship with the Anita Blake Series by Laurell K. Hamilton. I love the idea: A woman named Anita Blake is known as the Executioner. She is a necromancer and vampire hunter in a time when the vampires are known by the world and laws are made for them. And laws protect […]
Book Review: The Bride Wore Black Leather
Simon R. Green keeps bringing me back to the secret world of London, the Nightside, a place where it is always 3am, the sun never shines, and all your deepest and darkest desires come true. The streets are full of cars, and some things that look like cars that are hungry. There are supernatural beings, […]
Book Review: The Mists of Avalon
Marion Zimmer Bradley pulls us into the Arthur legend to reveal the women behind the men. When the book was first written, feminism was rising and independence and equality was murmured on every woman’s lips. Marion gives life to this movement by illuminating the personal transformations of the women of the Arthur legend such as […]
Book Review: The Child Thief
Peter Pan is no longer painted as the cherub faced child once read about. In the “Child Thief” by Brom, Peter has escaped from his Disney prison and jumped into a macabre fairytale where he saves, or recruits, abused children. New York City is filled with guns and drugs and Nick, a fourteen year old […]
Book Review: Street Magic
“Street Magic” by Caitlin Kittredge introduces us to a underground world called the Black where magic is real and death is around every corner. Pete (Petunia) age 16, saw the apparent death of punk rocker Jack Winter during an invocation gone wrong. Years later after becoming a copper in London, children begin disappearing and Pete […]
