This is the sort of review I get kind of grumpy about writing (but I do anyway). The premise is that Verity Price, ballroom dancer and cryptozoologist, investigates some disappearances of the local population of creatures of legend. While doing so, she meets Dominic, member of a pseudo-religious order called the Covenant that has been taking ( Read more... )

I'm not usually one for dystopian future novels, but I'm always willing to give them a shot now and then. “Who knows? Maybe this one will be awesome!” says I.
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I've been having good luck with Gail Carriger's books since I started reading them. Naturally, eager to see more of a good thing, I obtained a copy of Heartless.

( A lesson on the where the safest place in the world is. )

I'd seen this book mentioned a few times when people list off steampunk books that have a multicultural aspect to them and I thought I would give it a shot.

( A few wrong turns. )

I picked Phoenix Rising
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I've developed a taste for steampunk in the past year or so and find I enjoy it a lot. So naturally when someone hands me a steampunk novel, I'm frequently quite happy about it (with some caveats, of course).

( A little spy versus spy to liven things up. )

I don't really have any cute stories about why I picked The House of Discarded Dreams
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The concept of a house that eats people has always been an intriguing on to me as it shows up extremely often in horror films. That and I have a soft spot for what appears to be a variety of time and relative dimensions in space device. It might be a type 20 as opposed to the more frequently seen type 40.

So, The World House's
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I'm going to take this time to remind my lovely readers as to why I generally tend to not read urban fantasy. There isn't a diversity of plots. There isn't a diversity of character tropes going on. I get bored very easily. However, I've a sibling who is a connoisseur of this particular fantasy sub genre who kept pestering me to read this. Since the ( Read more... )

Frequent readers here will know that I like to try out books I've never heard of. Since steampunk-ish type things have been my sub-genre du jour, I thought I would try out the Bookman by Lavie Tidhar.

( Lizards and androids and bookworms, oh my! )