Games – Looking For a Good Book

January 23, 2025

ZACHARETH: A VILLAINS COLLECTION NOVEL – Robbie MacNiven

The novel follows Zachareth, first as a young boy living in his father’s castle, Castle Talon. Moving into his teens, Zachareth is like a lot of boys his age – he doesn’t get along with his father, he hates his studies, and, in Zachareth’s case, he doesn’t trust his father’s advisor – the elf Leanna. Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Games, Reviews, SF/Fantasy

April 7, 2022

QUESTLAND – Carrie Vaughn

Dr. Addie Cox is a literature professor – very happy with her job and the assumption that she is making a mark on impressionable young minds. It’s a comfortable life and she’s happy with it. Then her status quo changes when Harris Lang, a billionaire tech genius offers her a job. Lang owns an island Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

4 stars, Book Reviews, Books, Games, Reviews, SF/Fantasy

August 9, 2021

RABBITS – Terry Miles

Have you ever been going along your day and for no particular reason suddenly noticed unique patterns in unusual places? For instance, it’s April 4th and you happened to look at your clock at the exact minute when it reads 4:44. Or perhaps you are convinced you know the name of a store you’ve shopped Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Games, SF/Fantasy

July 9, 2021

T.I.M.E. STORIES: THE HEIDEN FILES – Christopher Lambert

“Tess Heiden, twenty years old, born in 1993. A difficult childhood. Mother a junkie. Like you, she had numerous stays in psychiatric institutions. Father unknown… At the age of ten, you were placed with a foster family, the Heidens, who adopted you officially two years later, despite your… unstable behaviour, to say the least. Your Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

3 Stars, Games, SF/Fantasy

February 24, 2021

DEADLANDS: GHOSTWALKERS – Jonathan Maberry

The great quake of 1868 split California into scores of labyrinthine caverns, mostly flooded with ocean water. But the quake also revealed a new substance known as “ghost rock” which creative individuals have discovered can be useful for making some inventive weapons, among other things. Ghost rock provides the source for many steampunk-like inventions. Right Continue reading

ENTERTAINMENT, SF/FANTASY

2 Stars, Games, Horror/Dark Fantasy, SF/Fantasy

February 5, 2021

OLD NORSE FOR MODERN TIMES – Ian Stuart Sharpe

I was interested in this book based on this description: Never be lost for words again…with this book of lost words. Have you ever wanted to wield the silver tongue of Loki, or to hammer home your point like a Thundergod? Old Norse is the language of legends and the stuff of sagas, the inspiration Continue reading

ENTERTAINMENT, HUMOR

4 stars, Entertainment, Games, Humor

September 13, 2016

THE MUNCHKIN BOOK – James Lowder, editor

If you are any kind of geek at all, you already know about the card game Munchkin and many of its variants. But what do you really know about the game, the creators and many of its bizarre rules? This collection of (mostly) humorous essays gives the reader and game player a peek of the Munchkin Continue reading

MEMOIR, NON-FICTION, SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

4 stars, Book Reviews, Books, Entertainment, Games, Humor, Memoir, non-fiction, Reviews