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... )

When I picked up this book, I was expecting a cheese-tastic steampunk romp through New York. That was exactly what I got with The Falling Machine.

It centers around Sarah, daughter of the superhero known as the Tycoon. He happens to be the leader of a steam-age Justice League. The League has a bit of a corruption and a vision problem. Unfortunately ( Read more... )

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Some might think it strange that I haven't really read “the big names” of epic fantasy. I've no real desire to read George RR Martin's doorstops or Patrick Rothfuss's material and I have stalwartly refused to read the Wheel of Time because I know my attention span (while improving) just isn't up to the task. Nonetheless, I do find things that ( Read more... )

I love small conventions because I always end up with new additions to my list of things I really want to read. This was one of the books I picked up as a direct result.

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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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So, when I go to large pop arts conventions (such as the San Diego Comicon) I tend to acquire quite a few new books. This was the one I'd actually started reading during the convention itself. That and it looked steampunk. I am such a fangirl for steampunk at the moment.

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I generally like the “Princess going butt-stomping” narrative line and so I went and got the next installment of  Jim C. Hine's Princess series.

( Ends with a bit of a sigh )

Ah, the things I read when the the concept looks interesting...

So, Monster purports to be about two people who aren't especially fond of each other discovering something awful about to happen and trying to stop it.

I read it through and it had pages, just like a proper book. Other than that it didn't have a lot going for it. The characters were ( Read more... )

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. )