What is the strength or conviction of someone's beliefs unless they are tested by temptation? The Nebula Award winning novel A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg attempts to answer the aforementioned question. Prince Kinnall from the planet Velada Borthan tells his...
Book Review 63: At Death’s Door by Astrid V. Tallaksen
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...
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 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...
Book Review 55: Consequences by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Miles Flint, a Retrieval Artist, was hired by a prominent couple on the moon colony of Armstrong to find their daughter who has become a Disappeared because of her political activities on several planets. Flint retrieved the daughter and reunited her with the...
Book Review 52: Numb by John W. Otte
What if you are numb to pain and feelings for a good portion of your life? And all of sudden you begin to feel again and are not numb anymore? Those two questions were answered in Numb by John W. Otte. Numb is the story of Crusader, an assassin trained by the...