August 3, 2019
Welcome back, denizens of geek! We’ve got another Roundup in store for you, with all the best of spec this week! I’m quivering with antici… …pation, so let’s cut the usual goofy intro and jump right in!
August 2, 2019
I am so excited! This year, for my resolution project, I’m rewatching the Star Wars franchise. I chose it because I love Star Wars, and I thought it would be fun to re-watch the movies in order of release date, with perhaps a bit more of a critical and appreciative eye than I have before. This month’s installment: Star Wars: The Clone Wars…
August 1, 2019
The Magicians (2009) Written by: Lev Grossman Theme: Magical Schools! Discussion Date: Friday, August 30th The Premise: The New York Times bestselling novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world, now an original series on SYFY: “The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea…. Hogwarts was never…
August 1, 2019
I decided to take a page out of Merrin’s book and go on a dig in the salt mines. I, too, have things that stick under my craw for various reasons. We all have a lot of feelings about certain things, not all of them are good, and sometimes you just have to let the world know about them. In…
July 31, 2019
The Winter of the Witch (2019) Written by: Katherine Arden Genre: Fiction Pages: 285 (Hardcover) Series: Winternight Trilogy Book #3 Publisher: Del Rey Why I Chose It: The first book in the Winternight Trilogy, The Bear and the Nightingale, is one of my favorite books that I have reviewed for Speculative Chic. I also enjoyed the second book, The Girl…
July 30, 2019
Invisible Chains (2019) Written by: Michelle Renee Lane Genre: Fantasy Pages: 337 (ARC) Publisher: Haverhill House Publishing Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a fair review. Premise: Jacqueline is a young Creole slave in antebellum New Orleans. An unusual stranger who has haunted her dreams since childhood comes to stay as…
July 30, 2019
Magic Rises (2013) Written by: Ilona Andrews Series: Kate Daniels #6 Genre: Urban Fantasy Pages: 327 (Paperback) Publisher: Ace Why I Chose This: My 2019 Resolution Project for Speculative Chic is to read the books in the Kate Daniels series and finish up with a first read of the final book. I first read Magic Rises in 2013. The Premise: Atlanta is…
July 29, 2019
They might not be raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but that doesn’t mean that we love them any less. Welcome back to My Favorite Things, the weekly column where we grab someone in speculative circles to gab about the greatest in geek. This week, we sit down with fellow Speculative Chic contributor Nancy O’Toole Meservier, whose latest book,…
July 27, 2019
Hey, hey, kiddos, and what a week it’s been! Weather armageddon continues throughout the world, manifesting in varied and extreme ways, and I got to experience my own scare during the start of the week, when everyone’s phones exploded with emergency alerts about my hometown in a level-4 evacuation emergency for floods and mudslides. Remember how I complained about tsuyu…
July 26, 2019
Greetings, Book Clubbers! Your Editor-in-Chic is stepping in for the month of July with an important announcement. Do you remember, when we voted on July’s Book Club selection, that we picked the book based on helping Merrin clear out her TBR pile, because July is her birthday month? Well, because Merrin has been working so hard for this blog, I…