My favorite book that came out of last year's SPFBO was Symphony of the Wind, which surprised me not by being awesome, but by being just... exactly all the things I love in a book. So when I was approached with the sequel, well... I was all over it. So this review is based on... Continue Reading →
SPFBO Review: Symphony of the Wind by Steven McKinnon
And then she finally read the last of her SPFBO finalists. Did I save the best for last? Let us see!~ A bounty hunter with a death wish. A girl with fearsome powers. A kingdom on the brink of destruction. Serena dreams of leaving her harsh desert home behind in her very own airship. But... Continue Reading →
Review: The Hod King by Josiah Bancroft
So, this is obviously one of those books that I was anticipating since finishing Arm of the Sphinx. I certainly wasn't expecting it to show up in my mailbox one delightful November day, but there it was! Gaaasp!So, thanks very much to the author, and Orbit for the ARC!Fearing an uprising, the Sphinx sends Senlin... Continue Reading →
Review: Romulus Buckle & The City of the Founders by Richard Ellis Preston Jr.
That's a mouthful! 😀 I've had this book in my audible library for a number of months, as I got it as a pretty decent whispersync deal, and I've been trying to catch up on everything while I do some stitching and so here we are. In a postapocalyptic world of endless snow, Captain Romulus... Continue Reading →
Review: The Steamborn Trilogy by Eric R. Asher
I bet you can't guess which genre these are. I bet you caaaaan't! ;D So, I've listened to another audiobook trilogy by this author, which was Urban Fantasy and rather enjoyable if I remember it right, so when this trilogy came across my AudiobookBoom email, I jumped at it. Because this one sounded even more... Continue Reading →
Review: The Black Tides of Heaven & The Red Threads of Fortune by JY Yang
I'm going to go ahead and review these two novellas together, because they are a beautiful and wondrous pair indeed, and I can't bear to separate them. These came to my attention through my twitter feed (thanks to Tor for that <3), and once I saw them, I couldn't resist, because... well, I mean look... Continue Reading →
RetroReview: Senlin Ascends & Arm of the Sphinx by Josiah Bancroft
It's been a while since I reviewed anything. I don't want you lot thinking I fell off the face of the earth (just kidding, pretty much everyone who reads this blog follows me on twitter where I have not been spending the last week retweeting pictures of puppies and have definitely not been live tweeting my Mass Effect... Continue Reading →
Review: The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher
Guys.... I think that Euan Morton just became my favorite narrator. Seriously. I would happily listen to this man read me the phone book. What the world (OK, OK, just me) really needs is for him to record versions of all the books that I've been meaning to read forever and just cannot bring myself to... Continue Reading →
Review: It Takes a Thief to Catch a Sunrise by Rob J. Hayes
Catching the sunrise is only the first thing that it takes a thief to do, among other things. I love me a good heist story, and I've been known to enjoy a good steampunkish sort of setting, so I jumped right on board the crystal-powered airship of thievery here. Set in a new world of... Continue Reading →