Reading a series you enjoy is like wearing your favorite part of shoes. They are a comfortable fit and make you smile every time you put them on. Well, the Retrieval Artist Series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch has given me that same kind of feeling and after 13 books...
Book Review 87: Breeder by K.B. Hoyle
by MHill | Jul 17, 2016 | 2016 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books
How would you feel when everything that you have been taught could be a lie? That question starts to get answered in Breeder, Book 1 of the Breeder Cycle, by K.B. Hoyle. Seventeen lives a perfect life as a breeder in the Sanctuary that is ruled by the New World...
Book Review 79: The Petyi Crisis by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
by MHill | Feb 20, 2016 | 2016 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Retrieval Artist Series
Miles Flint and Noelle DeRicci are back! I had to write that as my first sentence for this latest review in the Retrieval Artist Series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. The previous two books in the series, A Murder of Clones and Search and Recovery, did not feature...
Book Review 78: Search and Recovery by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
by MHill | Feb 13, 2016 | 2016 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Retrieval Artist Series
This latest installment in the Retrieval Artist Series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch focuses on different characters outside of the main protagonists, Retrieval Artist Miles Flint and the Moon's Chief Security Officer, Noelle DeRicci. In her author's note, Rusch writes...
Book Review 77: Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg
by MHill | Feb 1, 2016 | 2016 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books
You would think that religious themes in science fiction could not mix together. However, there is a long history of science fiction (and fantasy) writers that have included religious themes in their work. Gene Wolfe did with his Solar Cycle Series (Book of The New...
Book Review 74: Glass Soup by Jonathan Carroll
by MHill | Dec 20, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews, Jonathan Carroll, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorite Duologies, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
I mentioned in my previous review that I have spent the last month of year reading three novels by Jonathan Carroll. Glass Soup is the second of the Carroll novels and I will be posting a review on The Wooden Sea by the end of the year. These Carroll novels have given...
Book Review 72: A Murder of Clones by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
by MHill | Oct 12, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Retrieval Artist Series
How would you feel as a reader about the direction of a series when the author introduces a brand new character? This is the question that Kristine Kathryn Rusch presents in the third book of the Anniversary Day Saga of the Retrieval Artist Series. I have read and...
Book Review 71: Blowback by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
by MHill | Sep 17, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Retrieval Artist Series
Blowback is Book 2 of the Anniversary Day Saga by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. This novel continues into the exploration of the Moon's Anniversary Day attacks that happened in Book 1 of the saga. As a result of the attacks, Moon's Chief Security Officer Noelle DeRicci is...
Book Review 69: Anniversary Day by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
by MHill | Aug 16, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Retrieval Artist Series
I'm coming up on seventy posted reviews for this website and I've written many other reviews on various book social websites like Goodreads, Booklikes, and such. I have noticed there are some books you read and review because of their importance to the literary...
Book Review 68: Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg
by MHill | Jul 17, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews
I'm continuing my summer reading of Robert Silverberg novels from the most prolific period of his career, 1967-1976. I reviewed A Time of Changes previously and now it's time for Tower of Glass. Simeon Krug, inventor and entrepreneur, is obsessed in getting a tower...