Before I’d read any book by the Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child writing team, I’d seen the film “The Relic”. It was pretty good, if a bit fantastical for a prehistoric type creature to stampede a museum in that way. I didn’t think anything else about, nor did I buy the DVD or try to […]
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Review: “Song on the Sand” by Ruth Sims
Brilliant was the first word that came to mind after reading Song on the Sand by Ruth Sims, then it took some moments for me to try to bring together exactly why, because so many elements of the story are outstanding: wry wit, believable conflict both internal and external, a sympathy with the characters, all […]
Review of “Stones from the River” by Ursula Hegi
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi Intro Although I often read history, especially books regarding World War II and Germany, memoirs, collected memories, analysis into the various horrors and sheer arrogant stupidity of what the Nazis and others did, I seldom, if ever, read fiction books about those times. This book, however, caught my […]
Review for “As Meat Loves Salt” by Maria McCann
“On the morning we dragged the pond for Patience White, I bent so far down trying to see beneath the surface that my own face peered up at me, twisting and frowning.” The intro sentence: immediately you are drawn into the world of Jacob Cullen, a darkly charismatic former servant turned soldier whose sincere cravings […]
Review for “The White Road” by Lynn Flewelling, and an overview of the Night runner Series
I don’t remember how I first came across the The Nightrunner Series, likely I was looking for more “mainstream” sci-fi/fantasy which had positive gay or bisexual characters. Luck In the Shadows, Book 1(Grade A) Fresh, bright and new for me, I immediately fell in the love with the main character Seregil, an elf exiled from […]
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