March 10, 2020
There was a period of time, just after I’d gotten my first job and suddenly had a lot of disposable income and nothing to really spend it on, that I began a collection of Nora Roberts novels. I don’t think I ever had the one that she pulled from publication (for not really fitting her brand), but I had absolutely…
March 7, 2020
Hello and welcome back to your favorite source of spec on the web! As always, we’ve got guest authors and reviews, books and TV, representing all shades of sci fi, fantasy, and horror at your fingertips! And if you’ve missed out, don’t worry, we still love you. Take the refresher course below and you’ll be sure to ace the Weekly…
March 5, 2020
The Hazel Wood is a part of my 2020 Resolution Project. I have 20 books that qualify as speculative on my shelves that I have yet to read — and that I have owned many for several years. The Hazel Wood, however, is not one of those books. I bought this book only a handful of months ago, although I’ve…
March 3, 2020
I’ve been a fan of Carrie Vaughn’s Kitty Norville series for years, and I’ve always enjoyed her take on certain urban fantasy tropes. I was completely satisfied by how the primary series wrapped up, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t jump at the chance to revisit the world and learn more about one of my favorite secondary characters. The Immortal…
February 28, 2020
Ghost stories and haunted houses are my absolute favorites in horror, so I actively seek them out. But due to the quirks of my brain and the busyness of everyday life, I don’t have the focus to read books of standard or more length. I’ve kept to reading comics, novellas, and short stories for the last decade or so. When…
February 26, 2020
I really loved the characters from the first book in The Tarot Sequence, not to mention the worldbuilding and the relationships. And since the end of the book left those characters with a clear goal in an interesting situation with a bad guy designed to be creepy as well as challenging, picking up the second book in the series was…
February 20, 2020
Working at a bookstore has its sad moments. That may sound like a strange thing to say, but it’s true. Going through the shelves and picking out all the books that are due to be returned is one of them. I always get sad when books we only have a few copies of have to get sent back. True, often…
February 15, 2020
Hail, and well met, strangers and returning friends! If you’ve journeyed long and far and missed the adventures at Speculative Chic this week, worry not — here’s what we do same time, same place: recap our latest stories and special guests for you this week. Grab your trusted steed and let’s set off!
February 13, 2020
I’m a huge Stephen King nerd. I mean, I don’t have a map of his multiverse on my wall or anything, but I own hardback copies of most of his books, have read almost everything he’s ever published (still missing a bunch of very early short stories though), and have watched just about every King property that’s been produced for…
February 6, 2020
I seem to do this thing where I’ll be super-excited for a book, buy it the day it’s released…and then never get around to reading it. Or read it much, much later than originally planned. I think part of that stems from knowing once I’m finished, I’m back to waiting for the next/final book in a particular series. That’s pretty…