The trouble with most Cthulhu collections (meaning Lovecraft pastiche) is that the authors don't really know what they're imitating. Usually you see an invocation of the Necronomicon, some...
this collection contains some stories that are almost good (wolfe, copper, wilson, campbell) but in the end are not good enough. i like good pulp. it's not here. some of the stories are really...
The stories in this book were in general rather dissappointing. There were a few good ones, but for the majority of stories were average at best. Very few of the stories were "modern" like I...
This is an enjoyable book that should entertain cat lovers and non cat lovers alike. The stories are well written and fast moving and I did not want to put it down once I had started reading.
The 2.0 version don't differ much at all from the first, except that the book is smaller and has some new cover/interior art. The content/setting is basically "X-files gone RPG", which is good I...
I've been playing Conspiracy X since it first came out (I think) in 1996. If you're a fan of The X-Files, this is the rpg for you. Dark conspiracies, government coverups and an impending alien...
I loved the Sevenwaters Trilogy so much but this book is just horrible. I tried so hard to like it that I actually read to page 225 which is way beyond my normal commitment to a dumb book. The 3...
I have been a fan of Juliet Marillier since I read the Sevenwaters Trilogy. This book is another example of how Marillier blends real life with fantasy to create a new world. Her characters are...
I read the first two Bridei Chronicles books before Wolfskin, and I /thank the gods/ that Marillier was able to shed some disappointing qualities in this series for her next series, the Bridei...
I couldn't put it down and it dragged me kicking and screaming to the end, cause I didn't want it to end. Thankfully, there was a sequel. This has to be one of my favorite books of all time. I...
I'm a big fan of urban fantasy like Nevernever and Elsewhere, so I picked up Tinker at my local library and read it. From the bat, Tinker brags about being a Buffy-clone or for fans of the show...
I was really blown away by Thurman's debut, Nightlife (Cal Leandros, Book 1). I devoured it in less than a day. I read a LOT of urban fantasy with kick-butt heroines, so it was nice to get back...
I found the first book in the Leandros series to be a fun, light read--something I wouldn't mind following up with sequals, but to be honest, I started Moonshine about three months ago and I just...
The problem with these books, Moonshine and Nightlife, is the cardboard quality of the characters. They're well drawn, but well drawn stereotypes are still just that, stereotypes. I think the...
I know how this is going to sound. But I majored in comparative literature in college. I have been an avid reader all my life -- from the classics to Ann Rule and Jodi Picoult. And I must say that...
Ok, I know this book was about time travel and the crisis of epidemics, but I spent all 600 pages wondering when the author would throw a punch that would make the book worth reading. 15 rounds...
A wonderful story from a mediocre writer. In parts boring and repetitive (very!...okay, we get it, you have run out of toilet roll...) and other parts quite devastating, I would recommend it if you...
The plot and style of The Book of Flying bring to mind Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, but without the simple grace and sense of fulfillment the latter provides. Pico is an interesting character,...
Both an imaginative fantasic odyssey and a tribute to books and to the realm of storytelling as a whole, The Book Of Flying is a unique and multi-layered tale, a complex fable.
While I enjoy the occasional fantasy novel, I have long been on the search for books that utilize fantastical elements but are more "literary" in nature. I thought I had found just such a book in...
What if The Beatles broke up before their big break? Kirwan asks the question and is answer is one that has both interesting and confounding ideas that don't play off well against each other. By...
A fictional story about the Beatles breaking up before the band actually became what they are today, conjured up thoughts of a book about the music industry and the changes that we would expect.
When the mile-long corpse of God plummets into the ocean and the angels begin to die of grief, the archangel Raphael's final act is to engage a disgraced freighter captain to tow the body to an...
My expectations were a bit too high when I bought this book. It looked like an intelligent, tongue-in-cheek, farcical tale, a what-if scenario played out with a sense of humor dosed heavily with...
What would happen if God died? Morality would lose its divine reference! Man would be able to do whatever he wants because nothing or nobody is watching him and he would have no one to fear. But...
I LOVE this book, it has many wonderful colorful pictures in it and just amazing, not sure if all the fact in it are true or not but none the less i do love it. Very informative and shipment was...
At one time, this was my favorite redwall book. It was also the first redwall book I read all of. In this book, the fearless badger lord Urthstripe the Strong leads his army of long patrol hares in...
The book of fantasy was ok... Cause brian jaques used animals as symbol's of people with many diffrent culture's and style's its ok if you totally need a reading book. So that's about it...
I picked up the book and read the back. It seemed it would be fun. I started reading it. It was boring and stupid. I got through half the book and put the REALLY DUMB book down. I guess it's...
The downhill tumble started by Pillars of Creation comes to an end.
What started off as quite possibly one of the best fantasy series ever with Wizard's First Rule and continued until Faith of the Fallen has finally dwindled down to an anticlimactic end. It seemed...
I've enjoyed the Sword of Truth books. Sure, some have been better than others, but the overall experience has been fun. This book wraps the two story arcs (the overall series & the Confessor...
I ordered this book for my granddaughter, with memories of the wonderful stories of Oz beyond the Wizard of Oz. I expected it to be a reprinting of the original books, with black and white...
In this second installment of Greywalker the author is still able to present the Grey in an interesting and mysterious manner. Once more I give her Kudos for that.
So what's wrong with this book? How much time ya got. It's not that the book is bad per se it's more like it takes forever to get nowhere. It struck me that Harper has done little since the first...
This is the second book in the Greywalker series and if you enjoy urban fantasies then you will enjoy this. The story pulls you in and once there you don't want to put the book down until you find...
I will say right off the bat that this book is not for fantasy writers who consider themselves in any way experienced. It is well-written and interesting enough, but all of the information can be...
This book has very little content, just random facts that lack any sort of overall cohesion. The chapter on Africa talks only about ancient Egypt. The chapter on trade, commerce and law has...
After purchasing and collecting so many of Charles De Lint's urban fantasy books, reading Angel Of Darkness and From A Whisper To A Scream, it was hard for me to imagine Charles De Lint writing...
The book is like eating bag of tasty chips -- the first few euphoric bites entice you to devour more & more till nothing is left and when peering at bottom of the now-empty bag, you get a...
After reading all other reviews, I was eager to read this one. Now I'm left to ask myself what all the hype was about. I found the characters to be very wooden and the dialogue completely...
I bought this book because I loved Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series. This is way different but I should have expected as much. It's a well written, very detailed book and definitely...
I have loved and quickly devoured all the Kushiel books, but this book just left me cold. It was a difficult read, not because the plot was so involved, but because it was really dull. I normally...
Jacqueline Carey had an intriguing idea when she conceived Banewreaker: What if the Lord of the Rings was told from Sauron's perspective? I have always been attracted to the bad/evil guys in movies...
Starts off rotten, but turns sweet and savory soon enough.
I tried reading this earlier in the year, but I never made it past the suspiciously boring prologue. I tried it again in June, for lack of anything else to read, and this time I managed to get past...
I hadn't really read Lindskold until a year or so ago. But then a blog that I frequently read pointed me towards Child of a Rainless Year which I absolutely loved. So when I was in Wisconsin and...
The first 90% of this book is written in the form of a traditional adventure (ala H. Rider Haggard) and is fairly exciting and interesting. Unfortunately, the last 10% is a totally different...
The Destruction of the Books, by Mel Odom is the sequel to The Rover and continues many years later, when Wick is now the Grandmagister of the Library.
Mel Odom's "The Rover" was a fun, light fantasy peopled by the stereotypical dwarves, elves, medieval humans and hobbitlike dwellers. Its sequel, "Destruction of the Books," is very different --...
Quite possibly the greatest book I've ever read! I absolutely loved it and can't get enough of Dune now. I've already ripped through Dune Messiah (which I enjoyed just as much) and I'm half way...
Previously I had panned the Kindle Edition for bad formatting! (And believe me, that DOES take away the enjoyment of a book, no matter the content -- especially if you'd read it before, like I...
While I would regularly rate this book 5 stars, the Kindle version is very poorly edited, and formating and spelling errors occur regularly. Words with missing spaces in between them show up on...
I was looking forward to purchasing this item, but after reading L. Farster's review, I decided to do a bit of research. Like L. Farster, I discovered that The Reconciliation (Imajica, Book 2) is...
If you enjoyed the first book, then the second should be just as enjoyable. It basically continues the journey of Gentle, in his quest of finding himself, just like the rest of us! I found the...
The basic plot is that a free-born boy turned serf is taken away from his cruel master to become an assistant to a sort of dragon rider. The boy begins planning to steal an egg, hatch a dragon and...
I loved reading Mercedes Lackey's Arrows trilogy and the Magic trilogy. I didn't care for the others. This series, though completely different, engaged me like none of her other books since the...
I have noticed a decline in Lackey's writing since the end of her first few Valdemar series. Joust was no exception. While the idea of Joust, and a country where people fight on dragons is nothing...
Legend is a classic tale of a "hopeless cause", which for the most part delivers on the promise of a good-fun (if at times a bit depressing) action/adventure novel. I don't think I'm going to say...
David Gemmell's Legend is the sort of book that makes me glad I read fantasy. It is pure, delicious heroism shaped into the most compact package imaginable. A massive barbarian horde, led by a...
From the reviews, I did'nt expect great literature or convoluted plot lines from this book. But the reviews are soooo good, I had to give it a chance. After about 200 pages I just cant seem to...
This sequel doesn't really live up to "Song in the Silence," which is the first novel in this trilogy, but it is still a satisfactory read. What makes this very compelling are the plot and the...
This is the second book in the current trilogy about Lanen Kaeler. It is great at being one of those "middle" books in trilogies that tend to not be as good as the rest of the series. Though I...
While the first book (Song in the Silence) had a satisfying conclusion w/ just enough loose ends to make the TOR marketing department happy, The Lesser Kindred might as well have ended mid...
While this is a good book and I highly recommend it do not buy the Kindle edition. The book has been scanned in which makes a lot of the pages I checked unreadable. Some of the pages were even...
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