The Sharing Knife: Volume Four: Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold

Well, Bujold's latest, least series falters to its ignominious ending.

Okay, it's probably not that bad. This book is badly served by having the first chapter of Curse of Chalion, a far superior book, available as a bonus at the back, reminding me of what Bujold is really capable ( Read more... )

The Unnatural Inquirer by Simon R. GreenI recently found myself questioning why I keep reading Green's books. Not just, "why do I keep buying the new ones". but "why do I go back and re-read the old ones"? I mean, if you've read one Green book you've read all of them--oh, the names change, and the specific targets, but still, all the same. And ( Read more... )

Clockwork Heart by Dru Pagliassotti Taya is an Icarus--a flying courier in the clockpunk city of Ondinium. Lower-class but ambitious, she gets caught up against her will in the affairs of two ruling-class brothers, one of whom has moved out of the upper city to live among the poor. Terrorists are involved with one of the brothers . . . but which ( Read more... )

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