Review: Airs Beneath The Moon by Toby Bishop

Mr. Bishop has written a book for every girl who secretly read Marguerite Henry and the Black Stallion and Nancy Drew in her desk and has now grown up, but not out of, the love of horses - magical or mundane - and mysteries and strong heroines triumphing over odds ( Read more... )

Quite literally - sometimes I randomly type in things and hit "search" just to see what will happen, and this is what I got when I searched "Outgrabe." (Actually, even more dousing than that - I deliberately mistyped it to see if Google would suggest "outgrabe"...which it did.) Don't flee ( Read more... )

A milsf/sword-and-sorcery rewrite of Left Behind is not improved by including a rewrite of the story of Annatar and the smiths of Eregion but making Celebrimbor a tall redheaded mortal sorceress* with a Tragic Secret whom the Necromancer** cannot bear to kill1 out of his obsessive love for her2, culminating in a reverse quest against impossible ( Read more... )

Since the review is getting in the 10-page multipart range without including the relevant excerpts, and I'm not done yet, (slowed down by the fact that I can't google up refs to things like Key Dates of the Holy Roman Empire, I have to type margin notes to go look them up later and revise as needed) - an insight that hit me as I was exerpting said ( Read more... )

A little delayed, but in case anyone (stateside that is) needs an emetic after overindulging tomorrow:

You may remember we last saw Larkin and Blair involved in a little esoteric masochism, well, now we get the follow-up:

She vaulted onto him. "Let's fly, cowboy ( Read more... )

that the moral of the story not be that only the boys can save the world, and that even adult women should be sent home and kept safe, even "chivalrously" lied to in order to protect them? Can't we get away from this in anthropomorphic fantasy?!?!?