published softcover (this WMG edition in 2011, previously in 2002) Reviewed by Lyn McConchie. The trouble with this book is that it’s too good. And if that sounds odd, bear with me. The book was a gift, I scanned the blurb and thought that it should be a good read because a) the author writes …
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FIREBIRD by Jack McDevitt.
an ‘Alex Benedict’ novel, hardcover, published ACE November 2011. Reviewed by Lyn McConchie. I don’t think that it’s any secret that I love Jack’s work. I like some of his books more than others, but I’ve never found any of them to be less than very good. The ‘Alex Benedict’ series has been fun, clever, …
Petrella At Q by Michael Gilbert
a collection of the ‘Patrick Petrella” stories published in hardcover by H&S in 1977, and reviewed by Lyn McConchie. I’m taking it easy on the reading side by rereading all the books I have by a favourite author. Michael Gilbert was a brilliant writer, he produced a string of books and story collections for over …
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
By Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Published by Dell, paperback dated May 2009. reviewed by Shari Aarlton. I thought this was a brilliant book, gentle, sensitive, loving, witty, and sweet in turns while tossing in all sorts of literary excerpts and allusions. It starts with an author who receives a letter a year after …
CRYOBURN by Lois Mcmaster Bujold
Baen paperback, published October 2011, reviewed by Lyn McConchie. It’s been far too long since there was a new “Miles Vorcosigan’ book out, this is it, and worth the wait. I found this series a long time ago and quite by accident.I’d seen the original publication of Shards of Honor and decided that it probably …
HIGH CRIMES by Michael Kodas
tradepaperback published by Hyperion, copyrighted in 2008, but may have been published later. Reviewed by Lyn McConchie. The subtitle for this book is “The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed,” and it’s accurate. between the damage being done to the area by literally tens of thousands of people coming and going every climbing …
THE TRUTH OF VALOR by Tanya Huff
a paperback from DAW SF published 2010 – reviewed by Lyn McConchie. Tanya Huff produces great books! Here and there, there have been ones I didn’t much like, nothing against her writing, just that the characters didn’t grab me quite as strongly as usual. But this book isn’t one of them. Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr …
TAILS OF WONDER AND IMAGINATION edited by Ellen Datlow.
TAILS OF WONDER AND IMAGINATION edited by Ellen Datlow. Trade paperback, Night Shade Books, 2010. A reprint anthology of 40 stories about felines. 464 pages. Reviewed by Lyn McConchie. To put this review in perspective. I grade theme anthologies in two ways. There are the stories, how many of them that, for that single story …
WIZARDS AND WANDERERS by Crystalwizard, Published Cyberwizard productions. Softcover. Book 3 of the Sojourn Chronicles.
reviewed by Lyn McConchie. I’ve been reading this series for a couple of years now and I’m looking forward to finding the cash to buy the next ones available in the series. The story is basically a quest stretching over a several years road trip with those involved travelling towards the quest’s achievement. Dale is …
VILLENSPELL: CITY OF WIZARDS by Crystalwizard, published Cyberwizard Productions, softcover. 2nd in the Sojourn series.
reviewed by Lyn McConchie. some time back I purchased “Wizard’s Bane,†the first in this six book series. After that I was very busy revising several of my own books, but with those out of the way I discovered that the next two in the series were available. So I bought them. This on its …