Latest Reviews:
- Review of “Lord of the Last Heartbeat” by May Peterson
Lord of the Last Heartbeat is the debut novel from writer, essayist and editor May Peterson and the first in the The Sacred Dark series. A remarkable blending of fantasy, paranormal romance, history and mystery, all with great care applied to the handling and portrayal of trauma and queer themes in a story that is… - Another Life (2019-2021)
Another Life is a 2019 science-fiction series starring Katee Sackhoff, Justin Chatwin, Samuel Anderson and a moderately sized ensemble cast mostly comprising the crew of the spaceship Salvare (Latin for ‘to save’) on a mission to find what they believe to be the source of a strange alien artifact that was created by a UFO… - Review of ‘All the Seas of the World’ by Guy Gavriel Kay
All The Seas of the World is the 15th novel by Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay, and is the closest to a direct sequel of any of the novels generally marketed as stand-alones. Taking place after the events recounted in A Brightness Long Ago, a number of characters re-appear or are referenced from that work…. - Review of ‘Truth of the Divine’ by Lindsay Ellis
Truth of the Divine is the second novel from American author, YouTuber, and critic Lindsay Ellis and is the direct sequel to her debut novel Axiom’s End picking up a few months after the events of that novel. We continue to follow Cora Sabino as she serves as interpreter and becomes increasingly closely bonded with…
Latest Articles:
- 2023 Reading ListThanks to a new job that includes a lovely 3 hours of commuting to the office (90 minutes each way) I not only seriously out-read 2022, I set a new record for total books in a year since I started counting a decade or more ago. Still obviously very Kindle Unlimited heavy as evidenced by…
- 2022 Reading List2022 started off slow because I did end up deciding to do that re-read of Wheel of Time in order to produce an article series about both the books and the Amazon show‘s season 1, but then picked up in large part to this being the year of reading Kindle Unlimitedly, as evidenced by the…
- The Bosom of Time
Of all the things I’ve seen anybody praise the Wheel of Time for, the one that always confuses me the most is praise for the way Jordan writes women. They point to how many strong female characters are in the story, and in one sense they’re not wrong. Egwene, Elayne, Faile, Nynaeve, Aviendha, Moraine, Siuan,… - If You Can’t Make Your Own Setting, Store-bought Is Fine.It’s surprising to me just how many people who’ve read the Wheel of Time didn’t realize the amount of signposting that the story takes place in our world. Whether it’s far ahead or far behind the present day is confounded by the cyclical nature of the story. It could in fact be both. But for…