One of the best things about being a book review blogger is that you get a chance to read novels outside of your comfort zone. It is easy to read books by authors you love all the time and not make room for anything new or different. However, one of my personal...
Book Review 62: Duplicate Effort by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
There is always consequences when you try to take down the Moon's most powerful law firm. This is the dilemma that Retrieval Artist Miles Flint faces in Duplicate Effort: Book 7 of the Retrieval Artist Series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Being a retrieval artist...
Book Review 61: Recovery Man by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
What if you found out that your child you thought was dead....might not be? And your ex-wife may have hidden this information from you? Those two questions creates the theme in Recovery Man (Book 6 of the Retrieval Artist Series) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. For the...
Book Review 60: The Place of Voices by Lauren Lynch
One of the benefits of doing reviews is that you get exposed to genres that you would not have considered reading in the past. In the past couple of years as a Book Review Blogger, I have decided to read young adult novels. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and Book 1 of...
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“I’d like people to enjoy reading them. A readable novel is a gift to humanity. It provides an innocent occupation. Any novel takes people away from their troubles and the television set; it may even stir them to reflect about human life, characters, morals. So I...
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“A novel without a story must work very hard in other ways to be worth reading, and indeed to be read. Some of today’s antistory novels are too deliberately arcane. I think story is essential to the survival of the novel. A novel may be “difficult” but its story can...
Book Review 59: The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
Can a marriage be saved even if you are doing God's will and serving him to the best of your ability? That is the main question I took from reading The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber. It's an interesting question that the novel tries to answer. I'm glad...
Book Review 58: Discoverability by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The Indie Publishing movement of the past half-dozen years has changed the course of the publishing industry. Publishing books have become a lot easier thanks to eBooks, Amazon, and other Print-on-Demand (POD) publishers. Would-be-novelists (like myself) that have...
Book Review 57: Paloma by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
How well do you know someone? If you find out some damaging information about someone you admired and respected would that change your view of that person? Is justice a zero-sum game? These questions get answered in a surprising fashion from Paloma: Book 5 of the...
Book Review 56: Buried Deep by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
How do we view death? Do we respect how others view death? Those two questions give Buried Deep by Kristine Kathryn Rusch a thought-provoking theme in the fourth entry of this excellent sci-fi hybrid thriller series. Bones have been discovered beneath the Martian soil...