3 Stars – Page 30 – Looking For a Good Book

July 2, 2018

HORROR LIBRARY, VOLUME 6 – Eric J. Guignard, ed.

I had enjoyed the “Best of” volume of Horror Library some time back, so when I saw that there was another volume out, I was eager to get in to it. There is, of course, a difference between a standard volume and a ‘best of’ collection, but given the high caliber of the writing in… Continue reading

Dark Fantasy/Horror, SHORT FICTION

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Horror/Dark Fantasy, Reviews, Short Stories

June 26, 2018

CITIZEN’S CREEK – Lalita Tademy

“Cow Tom” was born into slavery in the U.S. South in 1810 but he was sold as a child to a Creek Indian chief. Because of his innate ability to pick up on languages he grows to become a valued translator for his chief as different Indian tribes, white settlers, and black men spread west… Continue reading

HISTORICAL FICTION, Uncategorized

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

June 22, 2018

INHERIT THE FLAME – Megan E. O’Keefe

I haven’t been particularly enamored with the first two books in the ‘Scorched Continent’ series by Megan O’Keefe but I had already requested and received this third book in the series before I had gotten through the previous books or I likely wouldn’t have put in the request. However, this volume rises up just enough… Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

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

June 14, 2018

DRAWING DEAD – Pete Hautman

THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEWING A REISSUE Poker. Comic books. Minnesota. Yeah, this mystery is targeted toward me. Joey Cadillac is used car dealer in Chicago with a former Miss Minnesota (Chrissy Swenson) for a girlfriend. Joey feels pretty good about the deal he just made – he traded a beat-up Cadillac (on which he had rolled… Continue reading

MYSTERY, Uncategorized

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Mystery, Reviews

June 8, 2018

KOKORO – Keith Yatsuhashi

This will be a briefer review than normal for a number of reasons which I will currently keep to myself. As with the first book in this series, Kojiki, I struggled to enjoy this book. I felt like I understood the characters a little better this time around, but I really never cared about them.… Continue reading

SF/FANTASY

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

June 6, 2018

WORLD WAR Z – Max Brooks

I had seen the movie before jumping in to this book, and I was aware that the book was different. My youngest son has read the book a couple of times already and so I thought I should at least check this out. Zombies, in our pop culture, have been on the rise for some… Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

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

May 30, 2018

HIDDEN HUNTRESS – Danielle L. Jensen

Hidden Huntress is Danielle L. Jensen’s follow-up to her novel Stolen Songbird. In that book, human girl Cécile marries a troll prince, Tristan, in order to bring two worlds closer together, and of course they manage to fall in love despite initially finding the other horrible to look at. Now we leave the fairy-tale-like romance behind… Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized, YA

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

May 25, 2018

THE DJINN FALLS IN LOVE & OTHER STORIES – Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin, eds.

I’ve extolled the virtues of short stories many times and anthologies tend to center around a theme. This theme, of course, is Djinn, or Genies as we Americans often call them. This supernatural creature, the Djinn, is quite foreign to me and I looked forward to getting a better understanding of what s/he is about,… Continue reading

MYTHOLOGY, SF/FANTASY, SHORT FICTION, Uncategorized

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

May 23, 2018

MY LUCKY LIFE – Dick Van Dyke

There aren’t very many performers/actors that I admire as much as I do Dick Van Dyke. I grew up watching this man. On television it was The Dick Van Dyke Show and then The New Dick Van Dyke Show. On the big screen it was Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. His talent, to… Continue reading

ENTERTAINMENT, MEMOIR, NON-FICTION, Uncategorized

3 Stars, Biography, Book Reviews, Books, Entertainment, Memoir, non-fiction, Reviews, Television

May 18, 2018

GEEKED OUT – Obert Skye

The world is crumbling apart after bombs have nearly destroyed humanity, but that doesn’t mean kids get a pass from going to school! Uh uh, not way! It’s just that school isn’t quite the way it used to be. Sure, there’s still a hierarchy of cliques, with the jocks at the top of the heap… Continue reading

CHILDREN’S, HUMOR, Uncategorized, YA

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Children’s Books, Humor, Reviews, Young Adult

May 16, 2018

ZERO-G: GREEN SPACE – William Shatner and Jeff Rovin

FBI Director Samuel Lord is back, this time working with NASA to uncover the mole sabotaging some top-secret NASA projects aboard the Empyrean. But there’s an additional problem – some self-replicating nanites are proving volatile on-board and attempts to eradicate them are ineffective. Octogenarian Sam Lord is given these outer reaches assignments by the FBI… Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

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

April 25, 2018

CHILDREN OF FIRE – Drew Karpyshyn

A long time ago, when the gods toyed with mankind as if they were simple chess pieces, one special warrior, Daemron, was selected by those gods to lead the charge against the Chaos spawn. But Daemron turns his power against the gods, which is never a good thing to do, and the gods banish him… Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized, YA

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