I'm sorry.  I tried.  I just can't finish this book.

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist starts out well if a little wordy.  I liked Miss Temple and Cardinal Chang.  Dr. Svenson not so much - I found him kind of boring.  And that, in a nutshell, is my problem with this book.  It is a great premise - an evil cabal practicing ( Read more... )

Sartaj Singh is a Sikh police inspector in Mumbai.  Ganesh Gaitonde is a notorious gangster and one of the most wanted men in India.  Right at the beginning the two are brought together, Sartaj trying to make the capture of his career, Gaitonde trapped in a strange white cube of a building.  Via a speaker and video camera Gaitonde speaks with ( Read more... )

Yes, I know I said I'd have this up on Saturday.  Got a wicked headache instead.  Sue me.

Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, edited by Ekaterina Sedia, is a collection of short stories that are not in the genre of Urban Fantasy as most of us know it.  You know, the type where there are vampires, werewolves, magic, fey, etc.  Nope, here ( Read more... )

Shadows Over Baker Street, edited by Micheal Reaves and John Pelan, is a collection of stories based on one idea: What if Sherlock Holmes lived and had to deal with the world of H.P. Lovecraft?  I think it was the premise that attracted me although I have no clue why.  I don't think I've read Sherlock Holmes since high school and I've never read ( Read more... )

Fount Royal is dying.  Withering crops, horrible weather, mysterious fires, gruesome murders: and all because of her.  The witch!  Or is it?  A traveling magistrate and his young clerk have arrived to try Rachel Howarth on the charges of murder and witchcraft.  If found guilty she will burn.  But Matthew Corbett isn't so sure he believes in ( Read more... )

Someone is killing celebrities and making off with the bodies. Lieutenant Donal Riordan has been assigned to protect the latest target, a famous opera singer, from the assassins that are sure to strike. He must do everything he can to keep her safe from the madmen who want her bones. He fails.

So goes the first quarter of this book. The storyline ( Read more... )

Jack Howard is an underwater archaeologist working in the Mediterranean who has just made the discovery of his life - a Minoan shipwreck and a gold disk with strange markings. At the same time a colleague in Egypt finds a scrap of scroll with early Greek writing in a mummy’s wrappings.   Together the two finds yield up clues to an even bigger find… ( Read more... )