ReviewScifi
Golden Son (Red Rising Trilogy #2) by Pierce Brown (book review).
Dystopia isn’t a new trend in YA. It’s been exploited successfully over the past decade, spawning series and movies that are, for the…
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Kelly Jensen
Writer of love stories. Bibliophile. Gamer. Cat herder.
January 2015
ReviewScifi
The Galaxy Game by Karen Lord (book review).
‘The Galaxy Game’ is not a traditional sequel. It’s set in the same world as ‘The Best Of All Possible Worlds’ and a…
December 2014
ReviewBooks
Gunpowder Alchemy (The Gunpowder Chronicles book 1) by Jeannie Lin (book review).
During the first Opium War, China suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the British Royal Navy. The treaty that followed led…
ReviewScifi
The Fortress In Orion by Mike Resnick (book review).
Colonel Nathan Pretorius only just survived his last mission. Actually, if you take into account the couple of times he died during surgery,…
ReviewScifi
Undercity (Major Bhaajan book 1) by Catherine Asaro (book review)
There are a few authors for whom I will buy (or request) every new book without even glancing at the blurb. Among these…
November 2014
ReviewBooks
Nine Planets by Greg Byrne (book review)
Peter Blackwell wakes from a coma into a world he doesn’t recognise. Gripped by a curse, the salvation of humanity is a bizarre…
ReviewScifi
Shattered Shields edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt and Jennifer Brozek (book review).
‘Shattered Shields’ is an anthology of military fantasy edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt and Jennifer Brozek. Included are seventeen new stories from such…
ReviewFantasy
The Winter Boy by Sally Wiener Grotta (book review).
At the centre of the known world there is a valley occupied by a society of widows. The valley forms a centre of…
ReviewMEDIA
Willful Child by Steven Erikson (book review).
Steven Erikson is the author of the hugely popular series ‘The Malazan Book Of The Fallen’. ‘Willful Child’ could not be more different…
ReviewFantasy
Liesmith: Book 1 of The Wyrd by Alis Franklin (book review).
Sigmund Sussman is your stereotypical nerd. At twenty-two, he still lives at home. When not working tech-support, he plays games, handheld, console and…
October 2014
ReviewComics
New York ComicCon 2014 (convention review).
For the last eight years, I have failed in my primary mission at the New York Comic Con. I have not met Patrick…
ReviewScifi
Shovel Ready (Spademan #1) by Adam Sternbergh (book review).
Before dirty bombs turned the island of Manhattan into a ghost town, Spademan was a garbage man. After he lost his wife in…