December 4, 2019
Catfishing on CatNet (2019) Written by: Naomi Kritzer Genre: YA Science Fiction Pages: 294 (Hardcover) Publisher: Tor Teen Why I Chose It: I read and really enjoyed Kritzer’s award-winning short story “More Cat Pictures, Please” and heard she was expanding that world of a kind, cat-loving, self-improvement-urging AI into a novel. My first thought was, “Huh, how’s that going to…
October 2, 2019
Growing Things and Other Stories (2019) Written by: Paul Tremblay Genre: Horror Pages: 352 (Hardcover) Publisher: William Morrow Why I Chose It: I really enjoyed both Disappearance at Devil’s Rock and A Head Full of Ghosts. I thought this short story collection was bound to be interesting/creepy/provocative. And my library had it. Love my public library!!! The premise: A masterful…
August 7, 2019
The Affair of the Mysterious Letter (2019) Written by: Alexis Hall Genre: Fantasy Pages: 350 (Kindle) Publisher: Ace Why I chose it: I’m a big fan of Hall’s Prosperity series. I like the way Hall can write characters full of outlandish and oversized personalities, and create a weird world for his characters to run amok in. I’ve been waiting eagerly…
July 3, 2019
The Perfect Assassin (2019) Series: Chronicles of Ghadid, Book 1 Written by: K.A. Doore Genre: Fantasy Pages: 350 (Trade Paperback) Publisher: Tor Why I Chose It: I have a love-hate relationship with assassin stories, because on one hand, murder is bad! Assassins are not admirable people, right? On the other hand, fictional assassins are often fun to read, super-skilled, and…
June 21, 2019
Titanshade (2019) Written by: Dan Stout Genre: Urban Fantasy Pages: 407 (Hardcover) Publisher: DAW Why I Chose It: Because Carter’s a disgraced human cop; because Ajax is a new-to-town Mollenkampi rookie cop; together they fight crime! I am a total sucker for that premise, as I believe I’ve mentioned before. Less flippantly, I picked this one up because it looked…
June 5, 2019
The Agony House (2018) Written by: Cherie Priest Illustrated by: Tara O’Connor Genre: YA Horror Pages: 256 (Hardcover) Publisher: Scholastic Why I Chose It: It was suggested to me, either by BookBub or by my Amazon Kindle Daily Deals email. I can’t recall which. I do know that when Cherie Priest’s books cross my line of sight, I always stop…
May 1, 2019
Vigilance (2019) Written by: Robert Jackson Bennett Genre: Science Fiction Pages: 190 (Paperback) Publisher: Tor.com Why I Chose it: C’mon. Robert Jackson Bennett is an autoread for me, and this particular book? As writers, a lot of us struggle with terrible public events, feeling like we should be able to put words on the page to expose the awful truth…
March 6, 2019
The Black Company (1984) Written by: Glen Cook Genre: Dark Fantasy Pages: 319 (Mass market paperback) Series: Book 1 of The Chronicles of the Black Company Publisher: Tor Why I Chose It: So my 2019 Resolution was to revisit Glen Cook’s series The Chronicles of the Black Company, beginning with… well, The Black Company. As mentioned, I remember these books…
February 6, 2019
So this year’s resolution has some background to it. Way back when, a friend and I had two significant things in common—disposable income and a competitive drive to read all the things. We were constantly buying books and racing through them before shoving them at each other, or taunting each other with “This is soooo good and you have to…
January 31, 2019
Let me get two things out of the way. First: I know Lucifer is based (loosely!) on The Sandman, the graphic novel by Neil Gaiman (illustrated by a multitude of artists). And I know the character was spun off into a series of his own with the awesome Mike Carey writing. (Have you read his Felix Castor series? No? Go…