3 Stars – Page 27 – Looking For a Good Book

April 10, 2019

THE ADVENTURERS GUILD – Zack Loran Clark & Nick Eliopulos

People have asked me what is the hardest part about writing book reviews and it’s an easy answer … reviewing perfectly average books. Books that are outstanding and books that are terrible are easy to review because you can go in-depth on why you think they are outstanding or terrible. But there is almost nothing… Continue reading

CHILDREN’S, SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Children’s Books, Reviews, SF/Fantasy

April 3, 2019

DEATH BELOW STAIRS – Jennifer Ashley

A historical fiction mystery featuring the working class (ala Downton Abbey)? Yeah, this sounds like a winner! Kat Holloway is a cook. She’s good enough that she could almost choose where she wants to work, though she will be part of the working class. She accepts a position at Mayfair mansion working for Lord Rankin.… Continue reading

HISTORICAL FICTION, MYSTERY, Uncategorized

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Reviews

March 25, 2019

THE TRIALS OF SOLOMON PARKER – Eric Scott Fischl

Once in a while you come across a book that you can tell you should like – it’s well written, it touches subjects that appeal to you, characters that are strong – but for whatever reason you just can’t connect with it. The Trials of Solomon Parker by Eric Scott Fischl is just such a… Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized, WESTERN

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, SF/Fantasy, Western

March 22, 2019

UNDER THE PENDULUM SUN – Jeannette Ng

Catherine Helstone’s brother is a missionary, but instead of going to Africa, like most of the missionaries of the time, he has gone to Arcadia … a special land of the Fae. Because she has not received any word from him, Catherine follows to Arcadia where she is met by Miss Davenport – a changeling… Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, SF/Fantasy

March 13, 2019

A TASTE FOR BLOOD – David Stuart Davies

This is one of the oldest books in my ARC queue and was requested at a time when I was requesting everything in the hopes that I’d be approved for something. I did not know that it was a part of a longer series. But all that aside, I don’t think you need to read… Continue reading

MYSTERY, Uncategorized

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Mystery, Reviews

March 11, 2019

WASTE OF SPACE – Gina Damico

Waste of Space by Gina Damico is a very clever idea, written in an interesting (appropriate for the subject matter) style, but still mostly a long, drawn-out story that doesn’t have the payoff for sticking with the book. Some not quite top-of-the-line Hollywood producers are looking for the next great reality show and team up… Continue reading

ENTERTAINMENT, HUMOR, SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized, YA

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Entertainment, Humor, Reviews, SF/Fantasy, Young Adult

February 25, 2019

MISSISSIPPI ROLL – George R. R. Martin, editor

The story takes place on the Riverboat Natchez which is captained by Wilbur Leathers … who happens to be a ghost (though he was the captain before he died). An alien virus has devastated the planet and many people have been transformed …either into “jokers” (people with deformities) or into “aces” (people with super powers).… Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, SHORT FICTION, Uncategorized

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, SF/Fantasy, Short Stories

February 21, 2019

SPACE CAT MEETS MARS & SPACE CAT AND THE KITTENS – Ruthven Todd

THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEWING REISSUES Space Cat is back in the third volume of this 1950’s era children’s book! Flyball is now a seasoned ‘space cat’, flying regularly between the Earth and the moon and having now visited Venus as well. So when the rocketship is caught in the gravity of an asteroid, Flyball trusts his… Continue reading

CHILDREN’S, Uncategorized

3 Stars, 4 stars, Book Reviews, Books, Children’s Books, Reviews

February 19, 2019

BERSERKER – Emmy Laybourne

Imagine reading a Willa Cather novel with occasional flashes of raw violence like a Quentin Tarantino movie, and you get a feel for Emmy Laybourne’s Berserker. Siblings Knut, Stieg, and Hanne Hemstad are a dying breed. They’ve been cursed with a gift – to be from a family with ancient powers. Hanne is a Berserker.… Continue reading

HISTORICAL FICTION, YA

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Historical Fiction, Reviews, Young Adult

February 4, 2019

HANNA WHO FELL FROM THE SKY – Christopher Meades

Hanna has grown up in a quaint, secluded village where men have multiple wives and trade their daughters to friends for favors. Or perhaps take a daughter for a wife. Hanna is now promised to a man her father’s age and she would be his fifth wife and the expectation would be that she’s to… Continue reading

OTHER, SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized, YA

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Literature, Reviews, SF/Fantasy, Young Adult

February 1, 2019

SIEGE LINE – Myke Cole

Once in a while I like to get my fix of adventure fiction. As a teen I had read The Destroyer and The Avenger and Doc Savage and books of that nature, which were borderline pulps (or not-so-borderline in some cases). Finding books of that milieu today has been a bit more difficult for… Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

3 Stars, Action/Adventure, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, SF/Fantasy

January 28, 2019

THE UPLOADED – Ferrett Steinmetz

I had read Ferrett Steinmetz’s ‘Mancer’ series and despite rave reviews by so many, I could never quite see what the fuss was all about. Reading the slug line for this book I thought the concept sounded really interesting so I thought I’d give Steinmetz another go. The concept: In the not-too-distant future, as more… Continue reading

SF/FANTASY

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, SF/Fantasy