A review by Nalini Haynes James Griffin-Mars is a Chronoman, a time salvager who retrieves goods, particularly energy sources, to stave off the destruction of …
Book reviews
Trivia Man by Deborah O’Brien
A review by Nalini Haynes Kevin Dwyer is a loner who wanted a career in studying tides but his father insisted he become an accountant. …
Originals: The Rise by Julie Plec
A review by CJ Dee The original vampires Klaus, Elijah and Rebekah Mikaelson have managed to evade their murderous father in New Orleans. The peace …
Half a War by Joe Abercrombie
A review by Nalini Haynes Lord Grimdark has done it again. He concludes his YA/adult crossover trilogy with a bloodbath and darkly realistic international politics. …
Mind Games by Teri Terry
A review by CJ Dee Luna lives in a future where everyone spends their lives ‘plugged in’ to a virtual world via implants in their …
Finders Keepers by Stephen King
A review by CJ Dee Jimmy Gold is the Holden Caulfield of the Finders Keepers world. He is a literary icon that appeals to misfits …
Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N K Jemisin
Inheritance Trilogy Book 1 A review by Nalini Haynes. Yeine Darr is the daughter of an exiled ruling family member and the chief of a …
In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
A review by Nalini Haynes. It’s 1987 and Miri Ammerman returns to Elizabeth, New Jersey, to commemorate a life-changing 3 months in the 1950s when 3 planes …
Hacked by Tracy Alexander
A review by Nalini Haynes. Dan Langley is your typical 16-year-old geek except for his affinity with code. He goes down the rabbit hole to …
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
A review by Nalini Haynes Grasshopper Jungle is the history of the end of the world starting with Austin, leaping to Austin’s great-great-grandfather, meandering back …
Clockwork Dagger by Beth Cato
A review by Rebecca Fleming Octavia Leander is a healer, orphaned as a child and taken in by Miss Percival, the headmistress of the Caskentian …
Techbitch (aka The Knockoff) by Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza
A review by Nalini Haynes The term Techbitch evolved from Queen Bee. Sometimes a “bitch” is a queen of something, like when “dessert bitch” means …
Hexed: The Sisters of Witchdown by Michael Alan Nelson
A review by Nalini Haynes Lucifer — aka Luci Jenifer Inacio Das Neves — is a former street kid turned thief. She steals bad things from …
Hold the Dark by William Giraldi
A review by Nalini Haynes Children have been taken by wolves in the remote Alaskan town of Keelut. Medora Slone, the mother of the most …
Spring Bride by Anne Gracie
A review by Lynne Larby Spring Bride is the third Chance Sister Regency romance by Anne Gracie, telling Jane Chance’s story of sense versus sensibility. …