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ORBS by Nicholas Sansbury Smith (book review).
After the solar storms of 2055, portions of our planet are desolate and irradiated. Six years later, Dr. Sophie Winston and her team…
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Kelly Jensen
Writer of love stories. Bibliophile. Gamer. Cat herder.
July 2014
ReviewFantasy
Half A King (Shattered Sea book # 1) by Joe Abercrombie (book review).
I was pretty sure I’d like ‘Half A King’. My only concern was that it might be bloated in the way of epic…
June 2014
ReviewFantasy
The Blasted Lands (Seven Forges book 2) by James A. Moore (book review).
Second in the ‘Seven Forges’ series, ‘The Blasted Lands’ by James A. Moore continues where ‘Seven Forges’ left off. The Emperor of Fellein…
ReviewScifi
Defenders by Will McIntosh (book review).
A few of my reviewing friends had very good things to say about ‘Love Minus Eighty’ by Will McIntosh. So when Orbit dropped…
ReviewFantasy
Memory (Vorkosigan Saga book 10) by Lois McMaster Bujold (book review).
Summoned home to Barrayar to follow up on an incident where he might have accidentally cut the legs of the Imperial Courier he…
ReviewFantasy
The Herald (The Sundering book VI) by Ed Greenwood (book review).
This is it; we’re at the end of a long road. We are at ‘The Sundering’. Set during the Era of Upheaval, ‘The…
ReviewCons
Book Expo America 2014 (convention review).
Held annually in the publishing mecca of New York City, Book Expo America is the convention for book lovers. The focus is wide…
May 2014
ReviewScifi
Lex Talionis by R.S.A. Garcia (book review).
A young woman is brutally beaten and assaulted and left for dead. She is taken to the nearest clinic where she does flirt…
ReviewFantasy
The Twelve Kingdoms: The Mark Of The Tala (The Twelve Kingdoms book # 1) by Jeffe Kennedy (book review).
‘The Mark Of The Tala’ is the first of three novels set in ‘The Twelve Kingdoms’. Each book tells the story of one…
ReviewFantasy
East Of West Vol. 2: We Are All One by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta (Writer) (graphic novel review).
‘There’s Horsemen on the plains, the sky’s red as blood, and only the blind can see a better end.’ East Of West Vol.…
ReviewScifi
The City Center by Simone Pond (book review).
Centuries after the apocalypse, Ava Rhodes is competing to inherit the title of Queen of the City Center. Before she can realise her…
ReviewHorror
The Remaining by D.J. Molles (book review).
‘The Remaining’ isn’t just another zombie apocalypse novel. Actually, it is, but author D.J. Molles has tweaked his re-telling of a fate worse…