a review by Steve Cameron P’Rea Press I’m an English teacher and I’ve been known to teach poetry, both writing and critiquing it. I can’t, however, …
Book reviews
Steel Remains and Cold Commands by Richard Morgan
a review by Nalini Haynes A certain bookshop (who, on Facebook, claims to be a Hal-like self-aware gestalt identity) described The Steel Remains and its sequel, …
Revisionists by Thomas Mullen
a review by Nalini Haynes Zed is from the far future and has travelled back to present-day Washington to ensure that disasters take place in …
Solace & Grief and The Key to Starveldt
The Rare: books 1 & 2 a review by Nalini Haynes Solace was born a vampire (not the sparkly kind, I assure you). Because Solace’s parents …
Ship breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
a review by Nalini Haynes Nailer, a teenage boy, and his friends work on a ship breaker team, stripping lightweight salvage from shipwrecks for a …
Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
Women of the Otherworld series, book 1 a review by Nalini Haynes I read Bittenafter reading Kelley’s graphic novel Becoming and interviewing Kelley. Kelley said that …
People Next Door by Christopher Ransom
a review by Chris Hayes-Kossmann The problem with writing a horror novel and then slapping the words “You will never forget the twist” on the cover …
House Of The Wind
a review by Jade Hounsell The House of the Wind follows the lives of two women from the same family in two different locations and …
Avenger’s Angel by Heather Killough-Walden
a review by Jade Hounsell The Lost Angels series Avenger’s Angel recounts ancient history: 2000 years ago God, or The Old Man as he is referred to, …
Archangel’s Blade by Nalini Singh
Guild Hunter series book 4 a review by Jade Hounsell I have to say Archangel’s Blade threw me a bit, I was expecting another book to be …
Angel Arias by Marianne de Pierres
Night Creatures book 2 a review by Nalini Haynes Spoiler for Burn Bright, the first in the series. Naif, also called Retra, is a teenager who, in …
Adventures of Lady Luck
a review by Nalini Haynes Lady Luck is a German prototype female warrior bred in a laboratory with physical and psychic abilities. In the beginning she is undergoing …
Orchid #1 by Tom Morello, art by Scott Hepburn
a review by Nalini Haynes The promotional blurb for Orchid says: “When the seas rose, genetic codes were smashed. Now, human settlements are ringed by a dense …
Deep by Tom Taylor, art by James Brouwer
a review by Nalini Haynes The Deep says, ‘Here be dragons.’ Among other things. Aronnax, the submarine that is home to a trans-national family, the …
Strange Worlds, art by Greg Gates, various authors
a review by Nalini Haynes Strange Worlds is an anthology of Greg Gates’ comic book art over a period of 10 years or so, with …